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Podcast

Climatetech's surprising bottleneck: Land access

How geography, landscape and the rights to physical spaces could hinder key climate technologies.

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By Shayle Kann . 2 June 2022
Guides and how-tos

The power grid explained — plus demand response, virtual power plants and more

Canary Media defines the concepts that are key to a clean, distributed electricity system, from "behind the meter" to "balancing the grid."

By Alison F. Takemura . 2 June 2022
Food and farms

What's the most climate-friendly way to eat? It's tricky

Plus, why climate hawks should heed the Chick-Fil-A cows and eat more chicken.

By Michael Grunwald . 6 June 2022
Solar

Puerto Ricans are powering their own rooftop solar boom

Residents and shop owners are installing solar-plus-battery systems in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria. Will the government get on board?

By Maria Gallucci . 8 June 2022
Carbon-free buildings

How century-old 'district energy' networks can help decarbonize cities

Vicinity Energy aims to convert Boston's steam network to run on clean electricity, showing how some cities can move toward climate-friendly heating and cooling of buildings.

By Jeff St. John . 7 June 2022
Series

Recycling Renewables: A special series

As the world rolls out more solar panels, wind turbines and batteries, we’re cleaning up electricity — and generating a lot of equipment that will ultimately need to be recycled. The clean energy sector has drastically lower impacts on the environment than fossil fuels, but still needs to do its part to conserve resources and curb waste. In this week of special coverage, Canary Media reports on the technologies, policies and companies that can make clean energy even cleaner. We thank Solarcycle for its support of this series.
Clean energy

Why we need to recycle clean energy technologies — and how to do it

Millions of tons of spent solar panels, wind turbine blades and lithium-ion batteries could be wasted in landfills — or put back to use for the clean energy transition.

By Jeff St. John . 13 June 2022
Solar

New startup aims to recycle 95% of high-value content from solar panels

Solarcycle just landed $6.6 million in venture capital funding to power its giga-scale recycling ambitions.

By Eric Wesoff . 14 June 2022
Workforce diversity

This innovative cleantech job-training program is changing lives

BlocPower's Civilian Climate Corps is hiring people in underserved NYC areas to make their own neighborhoods more energy-efficient.

By CJ Clouse . 21 June 2022
Marine transport

This electric speedboat is fast, quiet, clean — and pricey

Electric boats are less damaging to waterways and the climate, but at $300,000 each, the new Arc One is not priced for the masses yet.

By Maria Gallucci . 15 June 2022