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    Finding climate solutions in the dirt

    Aug. 22, 2024 – Katherine Hayhoe – Soil is an enormous carbon sink. It’s estimated it contains three times as much carbon as the atmosphere—and we could increase that.

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    Solar panels reducing high school’s carbon footprint

    Aug. 19, 2024 – Flatlander – The Manitoba government approved $91,000 in funding for solar panels as part of a larger, $12.8-million construction and renovation project to address growing enrolment at the French immersion school.

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    Global Warming of 1.6C Now Best Case Scenario, New Research Shows

    Aug. 19, 2024 – New Scientist  -Humanity’s goal of limiting global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, which has been totemic in climate policy for the past decade, is now almost certainly out of reach.

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    Every building sits on a thermal asset how networked geothermal power could change cities

    Aug. 9, 2024 – The Guardian – Along with earthworms, rocks, and the occasional skeleton, there is a massive battery right under your feet. Unlike a flammable lithium ion battery, though, this one is perfectly stable, free to use, and ripe for sustainable exploitation: the Earth itself.

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