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R.A.C.C. Update
Dear R.A.C.C. Community,
In this time of covid & the elections, please note that we will not be sending out a Newsletter in November. We look forward to connecting in 2021.
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Sustainable Good News Sunday begins with people and ends with end-of-use clean energy issues. First, a look at The Solutions Project, working with front line communities - led by black, indigenous, immigrant and other people of color to create climate solutions from the ground up. Next, a Filipino student has been short listed to potentially win an international award. His project takes crop waste particles, suspends them in resin to create a type of solar panel which absorb stray UV light from the sun and converts it to electricity. Next, with clean energy like solar panels and wind turbines – the production of and post-use issues need addressing on a worldwide scale. This article does a deep dive into new materials and recycling advances on the horizon for wind turbines. Finally, this last article also addresses clean energy concerns with lithium batteries. It reports plans for governments and worldwide organizations to face head-on the recycling challenges of lithium batteries as they become a mainstay of the energy world. Enjoy! (links in comments section)
Solving climate is the answer — and people hold the solutions.
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This moment is calling for a new paradigm that centers the people closest to the problemsIn case you missed this in the Washington Post. Reported: “New Mexico is waiting to see whether the president-elect follows through on a promise to ban new oil and gas drilling on public lands.”
“... any effort to halt new oil and gas permits on federal acreage will face significant legal and political hurdles — including from many Democrats in oil-producing states.”
“The spotlight on the Land of Enchantment, which has voted blue in all but one presidential election since 1992, comes as Biden appears primed to pick a New Mexico Democrat to be his interior secretary. Rep. Deb Haaland and Sens. Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich are each in the running to be Biden’s top public lands manager.”
“Whoever is chosen will be charged with trying to wind down the oil and gas leasing program that has financially benefited the state, should Biden follow through on his campaign promise.”
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The spotlight on the oil-producing state comes as the president-elect appears primed to pick a New Mexico Democrat to be his interior secretary.Comment on Facebook The spotlight on the...
Great article with New Mexico in the center of the whirlwind. Thanks for posting!
Sustainable Good New Sunday focuses upon the idea of one step (and project) at a time toward a cleaner energy future. This week, a Chicago-based global developer of green energy announced a 1,310-megawatt solar farm in northeastern Texas which will be the largest in the US upon completion. Then, news an Arkansas school district saved so much money from switching to solar power for their buildings, they were able to bump up their teachers’ salaries and eliminate their budget deficits. Next, an Indigenous-owned solar farm in remote northeast Alberta, Canada the largest project of its kind, celebrated its grand opening this week. Finally, fickle weather and fluctuating prices made a farmer in Massachusetts look for an additional income source. Five years ago, he installed a new cash crop: solar energy. Turning 19 acres into solar energy fields provides him a steady income and enough renewable electricity to power nearly 1,200 homes. Enjoy! (links in comments section).
Texas will host the largest solar project in the US - Electrek
electrek.co
Northeastern Texas will become home to a 1,310-megawatt solar farm, The Samson Solar Energy Center. It will be the largest in the US upon completion.