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Renewable Energy

How Electrifying your Home can Help the Environment [Infographic] — ecogreenlove

The “electrify everything” movement aims to use cleaner energy and decrease our dependence on fossil fuels. Many people have already switched their gas-powered cars to electric ones for a smaller carbon footprint. Now homeowners are looking to convert any technology or appliance in their home that runs on natural gas to electric power. via How Electrifying your Home can Help the Environment [Infographic] — ecogreenlove Continue reading How Electrifying your Home can Help the Environment [Infographic] — ecogreenlove

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Solar Mamas: Women solar engineers transforming East African villages

East African women are learning solar power engineering and taking the knowledge they acquire back to their villages to bring light in to homes and to gain sustainable employment. Barefoot College in Zanzibar choose marginalised rural women from villages across East Africa – where many homes are primarily powered by candles and paraffin lamps – to train at the college on how to install and … Continue reading Solar Mamas: Women solar engineers transforming East African villages

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The Solutions Project awards nearly $700,000 to women and people of colour fighting for climate justice and clean energy

The Solutions Project has awarded $622,000 in Fighter Fund grants to 40 US-based grassroots organisations and coalitions led by women and people of colour, that are advancing climate solutions and a just transition to 100% clean energy for all people. Currently, almost all US philanthropic dollars go to organisations led by white people, and white men in particular. To help address the extreme racial and … Continue reading The Solutions Project awards nearly $700,000 to women and people of colour fighting for climate justice and clean energy

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Solar Power 101: What you need to know about going solar at home

Solar power is an efficient and environmentally-friendly way of producing clean energy, which enables you to be self-sufficient and completely free of energy companies. While there is an upfront cost to going solar, the savings in the long-run are huge. The below video from Green Energy Futures explains what you need to know about going solar. While the below example is Canadian, the same applies wherever … Continue reading Solar Power 101: What you need to know about going solar at home

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TheGreenAge: Helping people to make informed green, energy choices for their homes and businesses

Want to know what is the greenest way to heat your home this winter? How you can cut your bills and reduce your carbon footprint? Or do you perhaps want to know more about renewable energy in a way that is easy to understand? TheGreenAge is an energy saving advice portal for all things to do with “conserving energy” and making “the world just that … Continue reading TheGreenAge: Helping people to make informed green, energy choices for their homes and businesses

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Skavenji plug-and-play box empowering people to produce and use their own renewable energy on a small-scale

French start-up Skavenji has set out to make renewable energy autonomous and accessible with a simple box that can be plugged in at home, an office or classroom, allowing users to directly produce and consume small amounts of electricity. The Skavenji Box lets everyone contribute to a greener world by managing the personal production and efficient use of electricity. The boxes are designed to be … Continue reading Skavenji plug-and-play box empowering people to produce and use their own renewable energy on a small-scale

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Carbon City Zero board game aims to get people talking about cleaning up our energy system and inspire action

Climate action group Possible have created a Carbon City Zero board game to get people talking and learning about the choices our towns and cities need to make to take action on climate change. Possible have worked with games experts at Manchester Metropolitan University to create the game, with the aim of getting people talking about cleaning up our energy system. That means taking the … Continue reading Carbon City Zero board game aims to get people talking about cleaning up our energy system and inspire action

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Solar Energy in Morocco: DW documentary examines how the transition to renewables is impacting rural communities

Morocco is leading the change to renewables in Africa, as the country sets out to end its dependency on imported fossil fuels. With 3,000 hours of sun a year, Morocco is increasingly turning to solar power to provide its energy needs, installing one of the world’s largest solar plants in Ouarzazate. This energy is also transforming life in remote villages. In the below documentary, German … Continue reading Solar Energy in Morocco: DW documentary examines how the transition to renewables is impacting rural communities

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Solar Cat: The cool cat in town helping to make renewable energy accessible to all

Solar Cat, a giant cat-shaped solar panel, is changing the perception that “renewable energy is a boring utility purchased by the most privileged”. Designed by NYC-based tech company, Grouphug, the Solar Cat is a 140-watt cat-shaped solar panel that is mounted to a window at the New York Hall of Science in Queens. The energy harvested by Solar Cat powers an adjacent interactive pedestal that … Continue reading Solar Cat: The cool cat in town helping to make renewable energy accessible to all

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How we can Power the Earth by Solar alone [Infographic] — ecogreenlove

As the world continues to strive to lower its carbon footprint and explore sources of energy that we can turn into power as efficiently and cleanly as possible, it turns out we may have undervalued the number one resource available to us, the sun. Solar is by far the largest, most reliable source of energy available all around the world and yet we are not … Continue reading How we can Power the Earth by Solar alone [Infographic] — ecogreenlove

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