[GWSG] Earth Day by Gore; NREL's housing; community guides; transition gap; 93% renewable added globally

[Tilley, Al]

1. Al Gore deserves a few minutes of your time for his Earth Day 2025 speech. You know the general point, but I predict you will discover some things along the way. https://algore.com/news/remarks-by-former-vice-president-al-gore-at-san-francisco-climate-week-2025

2. The National Renewable Energy Laboratory has been developing energy efficient, modestly priced modular housing. They have already constructed pilot projects. https://cleantechnica.com/2025/05/01/modular-construction-enables-efficient-affordable-housing/

3. Paul O’Hare, Lecturer in Human Geography and Urban Development, Manchester Metropolitan University, offers five suggestions for sustainable communities you might want to build with the NREL’s housing. He seeks to make cities more resilient to climate change.  1. Don’t just bounce back after a crisis, build back better. 2. Act well informed by risk. 3. Take transformative action to correct those conditions which promise future trauma. 4. Employ collective approaches which involve a large portion of the community and build solidarity. 5. Exploit co-benefits. https://phys.org/news/2025-04-ways-cities-resilient-climate.html

4. A model developed at the U of South Australia indicates that there will be period in the transition to renewable energy when the energy supply will fail to meet the pressures for growth. We would be better to go ahead and face the need for strenuous efficiency during the current phase of the transition. Item 2 above could be part of that, perhaps as housing in an agrihood which produces its own energy and most of its food. The article links to the Australian study. https://cleantechnica.com/2025/05/01/greasing-the-wheels-of-the-energy-transition-to-address-climate-change-fossil-fuels-phaseout/

5. 93% of the new power added globally last year was renewable, a record. We are not quite on track for tripling renewable power by 2030, but we are close. https://www.irena.org/News/articles/2025/Apr/Renewables-in-2024-5-Key-Facts-Behind-a-Record-Breaking-Year


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