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The energy transition is already happening, and it’s being led by our Indigenous communities

Enviromental Defense

In 2013, I returned to university to complete a master’s degree with a research focus on energy transition. By 2015, I successfully completed my first solar implementation in my home community which was Little Buffalo’s first grid-connected solar project that powers our health centre.

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Analysis: Bhutan ramps up its solar ambitions

A Greener Life

With several new power-intensive IT industries proposed to be established, Bhutan’s domestic demand for energy is projected to more than double in the next two years, and its winter energy deficit will worsen, officials at the Department of Industry told me. Solar energy has become competitive. Previous obstacles have been overcome.

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3 Pennsylvania Schools Achieve Green Ribbon Schools Recognition From U.S. Dept. of Education

PA Environment Daily

In 2013, it piloted a stormwater management project on the campus, planting over 600 trees and thousands of native plants, creating a woodland path, establishing a pollinator meadow, constructing a trail that links these elements together, and filling these spaces with environmental education signage.

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Analysis: Small solar projects help to power Argentina’s energy transition

A Greener Life

In 2013, the Armstrong cooperative submitted a proposal to the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation to install s olar panels in the town and generate its own electricity, instead of purchasing from the national grid. This project also allowed the environmental issue to gain momentum in the city,” Airasca said.

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Mining Raw Materials for Solar Panels: Problems and Solutions

Union of Concerned Scientists

Solar power is jetting us towards that goal. gigawatts (GW) of solar power, enough power to provide electricity for one third of the households in Los Angeles. The growth in solar power has been exponential in the past decade and isn’t stopping. By 2010, the US had installed 2.6

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House Hearing: Shapiro Administration Supports Expanding Alternative Energy Portfolio Standards; Renewables Lower Energy Costs; Increase Grid Reliability; More Work Needed To Improve Gas Reliability

PA Environment Daily

And in fact, Pennsylvania is now 50th in the nation for the percent growth in renewable energy since 2013 because of the lack of action on the AEPS. Solar provides a relatively weather-agnostic domestic energy source that provides local employment opportunity together with critical revenue streams for local communities and landowners.”

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New Columbia Resource Tracks the President’s Climate Action Plan

Law Columbia

On June 25, 2013, President Obama delivered a major speech on the topic of climate change. The agenda, detailed in The President’s Climate Action Plan , relies almost entirely upon executive powers; Congress is not even mentioned in the text.