Comments on: US cities leading the climate battle https://energytransition.org/2017/12/us-cities-leading-the-climate-battle/ The Global Energiewende Tue, 23 Oct 2018 13:03:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.1 By: Vivi https://energytransition.org/2017/12/us-cities-leading-the-climate-battle/#comment-6149 Sat, 09 Dec 2017 18:36:13 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=16331#comment-6149 By the way, the fancy building in the picture is just the school’s sports hall. The actual school building is a red brick block that looks pretty much like my university cafeteria did, which started its life as an industrial-scale laundry in the 19th century. Though I will allow that this school at least seems to maintain a teaching garden, if the little greenhouses on the photos are anything to go by. My own suburban elementary school paved our old teaching garden over for a parking lot a decade ago. Because apparently these days kids can’t be trusted to walk / bike the 1 mile (maximum) through mostly little driven on, sidewalk- and traffic-light-equipped streets it would take to get to school from anywhere in this residential area.

]]> By: Vivi https://energytransition.org/2017/12/us-cities-leading-the-climate-battle/#comment-6148 Sat, 09 Dec 2017 18:10:47 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=16331#comment-6148 As long as those pledges to go “100% renewable electricity” don’t just consist of the usual green-washing exploitation of the broken U.S. Renewable Energy Certificate trading system…

https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/12/08/beware-the-green-corporate-scam-the-100-renewable-facade/

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