Headline News:
- An increasing percentage of the world’s population are living in cities, and this number is set to keep growing. A startup based in Brooklyn, Square Roots, has just raised $5.4 million in seed funding that will be used to empower food entrepreneurs and increase urban farming to give city dwellers access to locally produced, healthy food. [CleanTechnica]
Square Roots farm
- Those Schools around the northern Indian city of Bikaner that have no supply of electricity will soon be illuminated with power fetched through solar panels. The district administration in a recent review meeting of electrification took this decision to give schools situated at distant locations in rural areas renewable power. [Daily News & Analysis]
- “The US coal industry is going out, not with a whimper, but with a burst of rent-seeking” • The US coal industry is dying, but not with any dignity. As the end approaches, its demands for government handouts increasingly frantic. The industry’s product is outmoded, and “picking winners” doesn’t look so bad when you’re losing. [Vox]
- Oil companies like to push the narrative that Alaskans want more oil development, but that’s not true. Construction of a few wind turbines in Arctic villages cannot undo much of the damage the fossil fuel economy has already done here, but the transition to renewable energy can provide local economies a measure of control. [YES! Magazine]
- Fresh off the first American Wind Week, the DOE’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory released a report finding wind energy cost reductions of 50% are possible by 2030. That’s on top of the 66% fall in costs since 2009. NREL expects advancements in wind turbine design, materials, and controls to unlock major cost reductions. [Windpower Engineering]
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August 26 Green Energy News posted first on Green Energy Times
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