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3 days ago | 
thecooldown.com | Jenny Reid Allison
For Floridians, buying home insurance has always been a challenge due to a turbulent market impacted by severe weather, but things may be improving somewhat, experts say. Florida's hurricane season will be here in a matter of months, and if you're shopping for home insurance during that time, you might find yourself between a rock and a hard place.
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3 days ago | 
thecooldown.com | Jenny Reid Allison
Last fall, a voter initiative in Seattle asked whether or not utility companies should be restricted from promoting natural gas over renewable energy sources. It passed — very narrowly, with a 3.5% margin, according to Ballotpedia — and therefore allowed utilities to promote natural gas usage. But last month, state Superior Court Judge Sandra Widlan struck down Initiative 2066, saying that it violates the state's constitution, KOMO News reported.
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3 days ago | 
thecooldown.com | Jenny Reid Allison
One person in the r/Conspiracy subreddit wanted to discuss the pros and cons of wind energy — and the commenters were ready to engage. The poster shared a link to an article from an online opinion publication, Front Page Magazine. In the article, the author made several unsubstantiated and outright false claims about the so-called threats of wind energy.
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4 days ago | 
thecooldown.com | Jenny Reid Allison
If you've ever been asked about removing your lithium-ion batteries before boarding a flight, you're likely familiar with the risks they can pose. When a battery overheats, it has the possibility of bursting into flames or even exploding. But the more society transitions to renewable energy and electrification, the more batteries will be needed โ which is why one group of researchers developed a way to test them for these risks in order to learn how to make them safer.
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5 days ago | 
thecooldown.com | Jenny Reid Allison
After delivering rescued wildlife to the Emerald Coast Wildlife Refuge in Florida, James Barnes noticed something about their intake form. Specifically, he saw that it captured an abundance of raw data about the rescued animal, including its location. As a recent geographic information science (GIS) graduate from the University of West Florida, he realized he was looking at an opportunity to use his skills.
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5 days ago | 
finance.yahoo.com | Jenny Reid Allison
Apple is putting its money — most recently, $99 million of it — where its promises are. The tech maker recently announced a new clean energy fund in China in order to continue converting its supply chain to renewable energy, Impakter reported. The company's goal is to have 100% of its supply chain powered by renewables by 2030, and this is poised to be a meaningful step in meeting that goal.
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6 days ago | 
thecooldown.com | Jenny Reid Allison
A recent version of the Ibre Letter, a monthly economic analysis from Brazil's Institute of Economics at the Getúlio Vargas Foundation, explained why domestic food prices are rising faster than the country's general inflation. And while the answer was complex, a lot of it came down to changes in weather and climate, Agência Brasil reported.
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6 days ago | 
thecooldown.com | Jenny Reid Allison
Approximately every six weeks in Cuba, the unreliable and outdated electric grid plunges the majority of the country into darkness — sometimes for days at a time. Now, a solar project hopes to pick up the slack and bring some stability to the country's power supply, Tech Xplore reported. The new project consists of 44,000 solar panels across 55 photovoltaic solar parks.
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1 week ago | 
finance.yahoo.com | Jenny Reid Allison
A South Yorkshire pension fund has decided to move toward divesting from fossil fuel companies BP and Shell, local paper The Star reported recently. The South Yorkshire Pensions Authority, which manages funds on behalf of 1.1 million members and 3,100 employers, is responsible for a total of £64 billion in assets. While only approximately 3.3% of its investment has historically gone into the two oil giants, its divestment will mean taking millions out of the oil and gas economy.
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1 week ago | 
thecooldown.com | Jenny Reid Allison
It's the last thing anyone wants to think about when they're swimming in the ocean, but the contamination of raw sewage in sea waters is becoming what one researcher has called "an increasingly critical issue for public health."A February publication in the journal Microbiology, authored by Jonathan Cox of Aston University,provided an overview of the types and degrees of coastal water contamination from sewage, with a focus on the United Kingdom.
