Title
& Description
News Outlet
& Journalist
Date
& Location
MEDIA TYPE
& LENGTH
23 February 2021
Bennington, Vermont, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
To make their restaurant more energy efficient and to cut its carbon footprint, The Publyk House utilized the services of Efficiency Vermont, a publicly funded energy efficiency utility. As part of their Deep Energy R...
21 January 2021
Florida, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
A pilot energy retrofit project in Florida has shown that these upgrades for homeowners ultimately saves them money and energy, and can be made accessible to people from all types of socioeconomic backgrounds. This pr...
31 December 2020
Staten Island, New York, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
The Staten Island African American Heritage Tour is a website and mobile app that offers virtual tours of Staten Island’s Black History, which was oftentimes intentionally erased from the city's historical accounts. T...
4 December 2020
Paris, France
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800-1500 Words
In Paris, about 7,500 buildings are heated using geothermal energy, a cost-saving and carbon neutral energy source. Water is drawn from deep below ground at a central location and heated by the earth, and then sent vi...
14 October 2020
California, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
California communities are turning to “community choice aggregators,” which allows them to buy electricity from green providers and have more control over the energy grid. However, the financial pressure for these pro...
1 August 2020
Staten Island, New York, United States
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800-1500 Words
The Young Leaders of Staten Island (YSLI) was created in Staten Island to fight for social justice after young residents of the borough felt the local response to George Floyd's murder was not enough. YSLI mobilized h...
29 February 2020
Massachusetts, United States
Text
Under 800 Words
Design-build coops are employee-owned businesses operated under a democratic business model that "considers people, planet, then profit." These coops have steadily increased in New England resulting in workplaces that...
3 February 2020
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Collecting data about environmental risks and resiliency projects facilitates investment and funding. The Carbon Disclosure Project’s (CDP) Cities Program and Cities Vulnerability Assessment encourage participating ci...
23 September 2019
New York, New York, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Researchers, policy makers and activists have joined together to embed within a community in Brooklyn in order to encourage local control over climate change problems and solutions. From playing jeopardy, which combin...
26 August 2019
New York, New York, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Eliminating food deserts is a community effort. Thanks to work of members, volunteers, and other partners of the East New York Farmers’ Market (ENYF), the East New York neighborhood of Brooklyn, formerly troubled by a...
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