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Community solar projects can be strategically deployed to maximize local value streams and advance community-wide sustainability and equity goals.
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Introducing Community Solar+: the Next Generation of Community Solar
Community Solar+ is community solar projects that are deliberately planned and strategically deployed to embrace added value streams and advance community-wide sustainability and equity goals.
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Four Lessons for Cities in the Latest IPCC Report
The latest IPCC report cannot emphasize enough that what cities do in the next decade matters.
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Need Help Advancing Local Climate Action? Try Community Project Funding.
Cohoes, New York, recently secured $3 million of Community Project Funding to construct, own, and operate an innovative 3.2 MW floating solar array.
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Bringing Cities and Their Utilities into the 21st Century
You wouldn’t rely on a 30-year-old contract with your phone or internet provider. Times change, and so do the conditions under which a contract was signed. Yet that is exactly what many cities do with…
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Are We Ready for Another Uri?
Texans recently endured another bout of record low temperatures and icy conditions. While it didn’t compare to the devastating effects of winter storm Uri in 2021, it was a grim reminder of last year’s historic…
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Local Governments Are Stepping Up Grid Decarbonization in 2022
Local governments are already a critical player in the United States’ transition to renewables, and their role will only grow in 2022 as they take advantage of emerging strategies and opportunities.
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Our Cities Are Getting Too Hot
A 2020 novel opens with a heat wave in Northern India that kills 20 million people. The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson is described by reviewers as the “novel…
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Beating the Heat: A Sustainable Cooling Handbook for Cities
The world’s cities are heating up at twice the global rate. This handbook lists sustainable urban cooling solutions and guides cities on how to use them.
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The Future of Landfills is Bright
Closed landfills offer an incredible opportunity to accelerate local solar energy, revitalize underutilized sites, and reinvest in communities.