How to Manage Social Distancing at Apartment Communities

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Many areas are requiring people to self-quarantine to slow the spread of coronavirus. Is your apartment community one of them? Here are some tips to help manage your residents. I’ve never heard the term “social distancing” before, but now it’s everywhere. And its practice is critical to slow the spread of coronavirus. Where I am in New Jersey, schools are closed (I’ve already …

Building Sustainable Castles in the Sky

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Architects are starting to see the climate crisis not just as a problem, but an opportunity to rethink the world anew Nearly 40% of UK greenhouse gas emissions, to use a figure architects love to bandy, are caused by the built environment. It’s an arresting figure. It suggests that the design of buildings and the planning of cities can do …

This is what energy resilience could look like

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Christopher Hohn’s activist hedge fund TCI has outlined plans to punish administrators of corporations that fail to reveal their carbon dioxide emissions in a transfer that underlines rising investor issues over local weather change and the strain on boardrooms to reply. Right now, four homes in the rural town of Basalt, Colorado, offer a glimpse into what the future of …

Hedge fund TCI vows to punish directors over climate change

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Christopher Hohn’s activist hedge fund TCI has outlined plans to punish administrators of corporations that fail to reveal their carbon dioxide emissions in a transfer that underlines rising investor issues over local weather change and the strain on boardrooms to reply. TCI has warned Airbus, Moody’s, Constitution Communications and different corporations to enhance their air pollution disclosure or it’s going …

Santa Fe Community Solar Moves

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The House Energy, Environment and Natural Resources Committee voted Tuesday to pass along a revised version of HB9, the Community Solar Act—a bill that proponents say would increase the accessibility of renewable energy. The bill has also been referred to the House Appropriations and Finance Committee on its march (again) through the Legislature. More than half of Americans aren’t in …

ICAST Champion: Edwards Mother Earth Foundation

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Edwards Mother Earth Foundation has supported ICAST via grant funding through its ClimateWise Building Initiative since 2016. The Foundation has championed ICAST’s innovative ideas, allowing it to find new and innovative ways to improve climate outcomes for buildings which house low income families. This support has allowed ICAST to explore the limits of net zero energy design in multifamily affordable …

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Netherlands climate change: Court orders bigger cuts in emissions

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In November, Los Angeles-based clean technology leaders announced its Zero Emissions 2028 Roadmap 2.0. At the time, Mayor Eric Garcetti called for a 25% reduction in air pollution by 2028. Today the Financial Times is reporting that Los Angeles may now force Uber and Lyft to use electric cars. The highest court in the Netherlands has upheld a ruling requiring …

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Los Angeles considers making Uber and Lyft go all-electric

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In November, Los Angeles-based clean technology leaders announced its Zero Emissions 2028 Roadmap 2.0. At the time, Mayor Eric Garcetti called for a 25% reduction in air pollution by 2028. Today the Financial Times is reporting that Los Angeles may now force Uber and Lyft to use electric cars. Mayor Garcetti said: “We have the power to regulate car share. …

Climate change: Firms failing to tackle crisis will be delisted from stock exchange, Labour says

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John McDonnell tells bosses they must ‘pull their weight’ to help tackle the ‘existential threat’ to the planet Companies that fail to act on the climate change they cause will be axed from the stock exchange, under radical Labour plans. John McDonnell, the shadow chancellor, pledged his government would ensure firms are “pulling their weight” to tackle the “existential threat” to the planet. And he warned: “For those companies …

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No more fire in the kitchen: Cities are banning natural gas in homes to save the planet

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Fix global warming or cook dinner on a gas stove? That’s the choice for people in 13 cities and one county in California and one town in Massachusetts that have enacted new zoning codes encouraging or requiring all-electric new construction.   The codes, most of them passed since June, are meant to keep builders from running natural gas lines to new homes and apartments, with an eye …