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How Can We Protect the Environment and Thrive in 2025? We’ve Got a Plan!

Enviromental Defense

The way we get around, where and what kind of places we live in, and how we heat and cool our homes are going to be key to our quality of life and the health of our environment this year. Speaking of homes, heating and cooling a home in Canada where we see 50 degree temperature swings over the course of the year requires lots of energy.

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China Powers AI Boom with Undersea Data Centers

Scientific American

This June construction began on a wind-powered underwater data center about six miles off the coast of Shanghai, one of China’s AI hubs. Keeping Data Centers Cool Data centers store information and perform complex calculations for businesses, whose increasing automation is steadily ramping up such needs.

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Environment & Energy Educational Opportunities For Students & Adults

PA Environment Daily

18 Planet Philadelphia Radio Program Provides Updates On Wind Power, Local Green Energy Efforts -- PA Wilds Center: PA Wilds Makers Market On Oct. 17 -- Williamsport Sun: Oct. 17 National Hiking Day At Rider Park Will Offer Beautiful Views -- Oct. 19 In Cameron County -- CleanScapes, Partners Hold Oct. 22 , 1:00 p.m.

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Soaring US Clean Energy Momentum Now At Risk

Union of Concerned Scientists

Those include issuing executive orders that seek to hit wind power hard both offshore and on land and to prop up coal power plants , which are increasingly uneconomic (and have always been bad for public health). Massive natural resources in the wind, the sun, the earth, and water.

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189 New Stories - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA

PA Environment Daily

18 Planet Philadelphia Radio Program Provides Updates On Wind Power, Local Green Energy Efforts -- Community Advocates For Clean Energy Host Nov. Shapiro Unveils New Color-Correcting Viewfinders In State Parks So Colorblind Individuals Can Enjoy Fall Foliage -- WESA/WPSU: Gov.

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Biden announces new climate change actions but holds an emergency declaration in reserve

Environmental News Bits

by Daniel Farber, University of California, Berkeley On July 20, 2022, President Joe Biden traveled to a former coal-burning power plant in Massachusetts that is being converted into a manufacturing site for offshore wind power equipment.

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Ontario could easily phase out polluting fossil gas – if it wanted to

Enviromental Defense

Ontario has a large potential supply of wind and solar energy that could be developed to help phase-out dirty gas plants. It estimated that we would need an additional 843 MW of solar and an additional 4,545 MW of wind capacity (along with a basket of other sources) to ensure the province’s energy needs are met. . As the U.S.