A Boutique Hotel Helps Explain the Benefits of Businesses and Government Teaming Up to Conserve Energy

What once was an abandoned department store in downtown Racine, Wisconsin, is now a boutique hotel that is unusually good at conserving energy. The most efficient elements of Hotel Verdant are not visible to the general public, things like a geothermal heating system underground and thick insulation beneath the roof. But energy conservation is a […]

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Is Race a Major Factor Behind Opposition to Wind Farms?

A new paper examines how pervasive wind energy opposition is in North America and the predictors of this resistance. It comes to some provocative conclusions, including this: Much of the local pushback comes from predominantly white, wealthy residents at the expense of minority communities who are more likely to live near fossil fuel plants that […]

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