Saving power to use later lets consumers, businesses and utilities generate energy when it’s cheap and deliver it when they need it most. There’s not much of it today, but the industry is growing fast.
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Churches started to use ashes early as the ninth century as a symbol of repentance. In 1091, Pope Urban II ritualized their use to mark the beginning of Lent. Today, churches provide ‘ashes to go.’
Energy storage, such as big batteries, on the power grid is generally seen as ‘green’ technology but the reality is more complicated, an analysis finds.
New research shows that computers, streaming video and other digital technologies are helping Americans spend more time at home and less out shopping and commuting, yielding measurable energy savings.
Letting cars drive themselves could save some people huge amounts of time. What might they do when they would have been driving?
If history is a guide, policies that promote wind power expansion will lead to lower prices – potentially beating fossil fuels in the US by 2030.
A new data management system can give emergency responders a fast lane on the internet to help speed rescue efforts after a disaster.
When the wealthy become unlikely allies in the fight against inequality, they often take similar steps. It all starts with acknowledging their own privileges.
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More than 2,000 academics, including philosophers and ethicists, are urging global leaders at the Paris climate summit to focus on the moral dimensions of climate change.
Exxon wasn’t the only giant corporation to have climate scientists in the 1980s. Scientists at GM and Ford also honed in on climate change, but they – and their companies – took very different paths.
The papal encyclical uses moral arguments for environmental protection, yet as a philosophical statement, it’s a terrific example of “public reason.”
It has been five years since an earthquake hit the Italian city of L’Aquila leaving 309 people dead. In the aftermath one public official and six earthquake scientists were charged with multiple counts…
Industrial civilization must become technologically, economically, politically, and morally sustainable to hold the earth’s temperature below 2°C (3.6°F) higher than its preindustrial average. The problem…
The importance of clearly communicating science to the public should not be underestimated. Accurately understanding our natural environment and sharing that information can be a matter of life or death…
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Associate Professor of Civil Engineering Technology, Environmental Management and Safety, Rochester Institute of Technology
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Distinguished Professor, Arthur J. Gosnell Professor of Economics, & Interim Head, Department of Sustainability, Rochester Institute of Technology
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Professor of Psychology, Visual Perception, Rochester Institute of Technology
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Dean of the College of Science, Professor of Biochemistry, Rochester Institute of Technology
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Assistant Professor of Sociology, Rochester Institute of Technology
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Chair, Department of Science, Technology, and Society, Rochester Institute of Technology
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Research scientist, Rochester Institute of Technology
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Distinguished Professor of Medical Illustration, Rochester Institute of Technology
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Master's Degree Student in Science, Technology, and Public Policy, Rochester Institute of Technology
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Associate Professor of Science, Technology and Society, Rochester Institute of Technology
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Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Rochester Institute of Technology
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Professor of Astronomy and Physics, Rochester Institute of Technology
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Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Rochester Institute of Technology
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Professor of Marketing, Rochester Institute of Technology
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Associate Professor of Political Science, Rochester Institute of Technology
