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Heat Pumps Can Counter Putin and the Climate Crisis

Last month, author and climate activist Bill McKibben proposed an unusual way that President Biden could simultaneously combat climate change and the war in Ukraine.  It all came down to heat pumps. At the time, McKibben’s musings...

The Transportation of Tomorrow Will Address Climate Change

As the largest source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the United States, the transportation industry will play an enormous role in efforts to reduce emissions in the face of climate change. When releasing in November the administration’s long-term...

How Smart Cities Cut Emissions

Internet, software, applications, and datasets are some of the many contributions that technological progress and innovation has made to sustainable development. As a support mechanism to local governments and stakeholders and to foster innovation as a way to drive...

Can High-Tech Methane Detectors Help Reach U.S. Climate Goals?

Methane is worse for climate change than carbon emissions. But to stop it, we first need to find it. To explain how high-tech aerial photography can help save the planet, research scientist Riley Duren refers to a map of Los Angeles, where a pixelated blue and green...