Carbon Emissions- Page 9 of 16
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Community Engagement Is Fundamental to the Permitting Process
Clean energy and transmission projects can bring benefits to the communities that host them. Inviting local interests to the planning table helps ensure that.
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It’s the IRA’s First Birthday. Here Are Five Areas Where Progress Is Piling Up
The Inflation Reduction Act promised an unprecedented wave of clean energy investment. One year in, here’s where we’re seeing progress.
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Interview With Lloyd Alter
Our "carbon beat" contributing editor gives us his backstory and big-picture perspective
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Weighing the Cost of Embodied Carbon
Answering the question of whether the embodied carbon in a Passive House–level insulation package cancels out operational carbon savings
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Why Efficient Buildings are Key to Decarbonizing the Power Grid
New data shows that efficient, grid-responsive buildings would make a zero-carbon grid $100B cheaper per year—if utilities and policymakers can act in time
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The Era of Sustainable Olympics
The implications of Paris 2024 go beyond the Games to address renewable energy, carbon neutrality, and adaptive reuse strategies
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California’s Green Building Standards Code Is Amended to Include Embodied Carbon
The country’s most populous state commits to reducing embodied emissions for public and private buildings larger than 100,000 square feet
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Do Carbon Offsets Work?
Compensatory means of carbon capture are unscalable, unjust, and unfixable but we still need them
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Montana Kids Win Historic Climate Lawsuit
Here’s why it could set a powerful precedent
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Milwaukee Will Be Home to The World’s Tallest Mass Timber Building (Again)
But is mass timber’s race to the sky accounting for building ecology and responsible growth?
