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Why Energy Conservation Will Remain Crucial

Legal Planet

If cooling your house gets cheaper because you’re more energy efficiency, you might decide you can afford to keep your house even cooler. First, a clean energy system is going to need a lot of solar panels, wind turbines, and batteries. In the end, you might use more electricity, not less.

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PennFuture 25th Anniversary Celebrations Honor 7 Pennsylvanians For Fighting Climate Change, Industrial Pollution

PA Environment Daily

Today, he is a Presidential Distinguished Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Science at the University of Pennsylvania. Napoleon Nelson with the Champion of the Environment Award for his commitment to environmental justice and green technologies in Philadelphia and across the state.

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Drexel’s Environmental Collaboratory Will Solve Environmental Problems With a Community-Driven and Justice-Centered Approach

Academy of Natural Sciences

Vice Provost and Executive Director Mathy Vathanaraj Stanislau s , formerly of the World Economic Forum and a senior official in the Obama administration, will lead The Environmental Collaboratory. By Emily Storz, Senior News Manager, Humanities, Social & Environmental Sciences, Office of University Communications.

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The world is edging closer to climate tipping points 

A Greener Life

Professor Corinne Le Quéré, Royal Society Research Professor at UEA’s School of Environmental Sciences, who also took part in the study added what is required to make emissions decline rapidly: “ If governments respond by turbocharging clean energy investments and planting, not cutting, trees, global emissions could rapidly start to fall.”.

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Environment & Energy Educational Opportunities For Students & Adults

PA Environment Daily

Data Centers And Pennsylvania's Future [PaEN] -- Volunteers Needed! Data Centers And Pennsylvania's Future [PaEN] -- Volunteers Needed!

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Soil dwellers thrive in between solar panels: Here are five Frontiers articles you won’t want to miss

Frontiers

Solar parks can house semi-natural grassland communities Solar parks are sustainable ways to ensure clean energy. They have now published their results in Frontiers in Environmental Science. But with tens of thousands of articles published each year, it’s impossible to cover all of them.

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Environment & Energy Educational Opportunities For Students & Adults

PA Environment Daily

Of Health Hosts 2 Virtual Focus Groups In April To Learn More About Private Well Water Use In PA [PaEN] -- The Sentinel: Snyder Conservation District Sets April 18 Soil Health Field Day In Selinsgrove -- PA Lake Erie Virtual Environmental Forum April 19 - PFAS Chemical Contamination [PaEN] -- Penn State College Of Agriculture April 20 Webinar - Follow (..)