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How to Navigate the Clean Energy Transition
Some tips for electrifying your home and transportation
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This Salamander Is the Only Vertebrate Tapped Into Photosynthesis
All salamanders have amazing biological powers, but this particular one takes the cake
What's the Sierra Club Been Up To Lately?
Alerts, campaign updates, and victories from Sierra Club volunteers and staff
These Are the Novel Batteries That Could Power the Energy Transition
Three promising alternatives to lithium-ion
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clean tech
Here's What Happens When Big Data Takes Over a Small Town
In Virginia, the planet's largest proposed data center threatens local ecosystems
The Carbon Footprint of Amazon, Google, and Facebook Is Growing
How cloud computing—and especially AI—threaten to make climate change worse
Electrifying Everything Will Require a Much Larger Workforce
Electricians are essential to a renewable energy future
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green jobs
Getting Off Gas, Block by Block
Trying to electrify a home can be hard. What if we instead focused on liberating entire neighborhoods from their reliance on methane gas?
Invasive Carp Are Surging in the Mississippi River. Will People and Pets Eat Them?
The US market for fish is a tough one
Our Transition to the Green Economy Does Not Need to Be Slow to Be Just and Equitable
We can have a sustainable economy and good jobs too
Tourism Can Wreck Local Communities and Ecosystems
Hawai'i has a plan that would encourage tourists to restore the land while contributing needed tourism dollars
Darkness Visible
A new dark-sky sanctuary in rural Oregon will help protect the sight of stars
The World's Most Famous Polar Bears Are Struggling to Adapt to Climate Change
Researchers say Churchill's polar bears are headed toward extinction if warming continues
Electric Big Rigs Are Poised to Revolutionize the Trucking Industry
A new generation of heavy haul vehicles will cut carbon pollution, clean up the air, and improve truckers' lives
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transportation
“Zone Zero” Mandates Near Completion for High Wildfire Risk Areas
In California, new rules are intended to create better defensible space
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wildfire
Indigenous-Led Tourism Alliances Are Taking Back Recreation on Their Land
They say that, done right, Indigenous tourism can also be a form of reconciliation
The Siting of an Offshore Wind Port Raises New Conflicts in Maine
Coastal residents are conflicted over the planned location of a facility that advocates say will help launch Maine's offshore wind industry
Kamala Harris’s Chicago Convention and Illinois’s Unique Place in Civil Rights History
This is what the "alpha and omega" of the movement looks like
In Praise of the Wilderness Act
On its 60th birthday, this landmark American conservation law is more valuable than ever
