Trees hold many priceless benefits, but a deep history of bias and segregation still dictate who can access these benefits. What do years of marginalization of certain populations and trees have in common? Read on to find out!
Hug a Tree!
Distilling the Inflation Reduction Act
We are taking a little break from our series on air conditioning and its environmental impacts to bring you some important intel on recent federal legislation. The Inflation Reduction Act passed in the Senate, the House, and President Biden just made it all official by signing it into law! What does it mean for the Planet? Read on to find out!
Air Conditioning: Part 2 - Alternatives
In our last blog we talked about how mechanical air conditioning as we know it is bad for the environment, but with increasingly hot summers we also depend on it more to stay cool. How do we break this cycle? There are some passive (non-mechanical) things we can do to help regulate temps. Read on to learn more!
Air Conditioning: Part 1 – The Positive Feedback Loop
It’s getting hot in here! The hotter it gets, the more we need air conditioning, and the more air conditioning we use, the more greenhouse gases we emit, and the more greenhouse gases we emit, the hotter our climate gets and the more we need air conditioning… and so it goes. Read more to understand this never-ending feedback loop and what we can do about it!
An Update on The Power of Heat Pumps: Bringing Peace & Freedom to Ukraine
The Power of Heat Pumps: Bringing Peace & Freedom to Ukraine
Microgrids in Refugee Camps: Improving People's Lives (Part 2)
Electricity is a basic human need. In the second post of our 2-part blog, we are exploring the possibilities for microgrids to better and brighten the lives of refugees in Rwanda. Providing reliable energy empowers communities and creates economic benefits that lift refugees out from under the poverty trap.
Microgrids in Refugee Camps: Improving People's Lives
Energy poverty is a struggle faced by people around the world and a barrier to prosperity and health in refugee camps. Recent advancements in microgrid technology can provide sustainable electricity and clean water, which gives refugees the resources to work, study, run a business and avoid harmful cooking fumes. In this 2-part blog, we are exploring Rwanda and sub-Saharan Africa to address disparities in refugee camps and dive into the solutions that microgrids can provide in these communities and beyond.
Meet the New Microgrid Manager
Hopefully you’ve seen RUN-GJC partners in the news and heard about the clean, community microgrids the team has been working on since 2016. The microgrids have come a loooong way since then and recently hit a big milestone: staff was hired! Sari Kayyali is the new Microgrid Manager for GreenRoots and Chinatown Power, Inc., the organizations anchoring each project. Tune in as we get to hear from Sari himself!