Tag: NIMBY
A Tale of Four Cities on Infill, Emissions, & Political Nerve
This is a tale of four cities, Calgary, Edmonton, Minneapolis, and Vancouver, each trying to answer the same question in a different way. How do you make room for more people in existing neighborhoods without pushing growth ever farther outward, and how do you do it in a way that … [continued]
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The Electrified Future Is Already Here. Canada Just Needs to Build It
This transcript, lightly edited, is a recorded conversation with a Canadian citizens action group where I walked through a practical, systems-level view of Canada’s decarbonization pathway, grounded in technologies that already work at scale. I focused on what is deployable now, not hypothetical breakthroughs, and explored everything from transmission and … [continued]
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Supported By Big Oil, Data Center Boom Faces Growing Local Opposition
Fossil fuel companies like Exxon see powering data centers as an important new revenue source and are making promises they can’t keep.
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A Michigan town hopes to stop a data center with a 2026 ballot initiative
By Tom Perkins, Inside Climate News
This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. This is the second of three articles about Michigan communities organizing to stop the construction of energy-intensive computing facilities.
As Renewables In China Surge, Some Questions Are Raised
A solar farm in Tibet is 7 times larger than Manhattan. It will be even larger when it is completed a few years from now.
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