6 February 2025

Category: Business

Business

Rooftop Solar Power Has a Dark Side The companies that own many leased solar systems on Americans’ rooftops are going out of business. By Alana Semuels September 26, 2023

This year, during the heat of summer, when temperatures in New York surpassed 90F, the 22 solar panels on the roof of my house were doing absolutely nothing. This is not something I learned until September, four months after my husband and I bought this house with a purportedly functional leased solar system in upstate […]

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How to Fix Carbon Offsets Nature-based carbon offsets have taken a great deal of criticism. Kelly Kizzier at the Bezos Earth Fund responds. By Alejandro de la Garza September 25, 2023

Corporations, startups, and nonprofits invested in the idea of offsetting emissions by preserving natural landscapes and planting trees have a problem. In recent months, media reports from outlets like Bloomberg and The Guardian have questioned many prominent players in the sector of overstating the purported carbon benefits of projects intending to use natural systems to […]

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The One Thing Climate Week Made Clear Challenges along the path to decarbonization are a signal that the energy transition is in full swing. How we respond next will be crucial. By Justin Worland September 23, 2023

(To get this story in your inbox, subscribe to the TIME CO2 Leadership Report newsletter here.) One of the challenges writing about news as it unfolds is identifying the clear narrative: reality can be messy, and narratives arent always clear cut. That dynamic was on full display here in New York this week as a […]

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Starbucks Wants to Overhaul Its Cup In an era where concern for sustainability can be good business, the Starbucks disposable cup may be on its way to extinction. By PETER PRENGAMAN / AP September 16, 2023

TEMPE, Arizona Bethany Patton steps up to the counter and places her pink mug into a shoebox-sized dishwasher. It spins. It whirs. Water splashes inside. After 90 seconds, the door opens and steam emerges. A barista grabs the mug, dries it and prepares Pattons order a 16-ounce Starbucks double espresso on ice. For bringing her […]

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