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1. Next generation air conditioners will cut energy use by 60% and costs by half. If we were to use the new technology for all air conditioning by 2050, we would avoid more than the world’s current total emissions. The study was done by the Rocky Mountain Institute
and the Global Cooling efficiency Accelerator. <a href="https://www.prnewswire.com/ae/news-releases/new-rmi-study-finds-next-gen-acs-cut-energy-costs-by-50-in-india-302444396.html" id="OWA18d27d0c-7e77-ffb6-4dad-45e1b4c3b8d7" class="OWAAutoLink">
https://www.prnewswire.com/ae/news-releases/new-rmi-study-finds-next-gen-acs-cut-energy-costs-by-50-in-india-302444396.html</a> A Clean Technica article provides appropriately enthusiastic elaboration.
<a href="https://cleantechnica.com/2025/05/02/super-efficient-air-conditioning-technology-slashes-energy-costs/" id="OWAfaf474e1-1c4f-9b1e-8419-ee9ed26289ee" class="OWAAutoLink">
https://cleantechnica.com/2025/05/02/super-efficient-air-conditioning-technology-slashes-energy-costs/</a> A link to air condition technology in the article provides the names of companies engaged in developing new A/C units.</div>
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2. 114 employees of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory have been laid off. Those are the people who gave us solar energy cheaper than fossil energy with the Sunshot Initiative and, most recently, have been developing modular, affordable passive houses
which could well be keystones of sustainable communities. Other examples of what we owe them are given in the article. What we shall lack that they might have done will remain unknown. Thanks in part to their work, though, the energy transition has enough
momentum to carry it past a great deal of greed and ignorance. <a href="https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/05/06/national-renewable-energy-lab-announces-layoffs/" id="OWA8c84ea62-3645-8239-0e8c-97cb3983e583" class="OWAAutoLink">
https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/05/06/national-renewable-energy-lab-announces-layoffs/</a></div>
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3. A study of farmlands in the Netherlands concluded that the less aggressively the soil is managed, the healthier it is. Further, lower-intensity management did not impair productivity. <a href="https://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2025/05/the-first-major-finding-of-a-new-soil-study-intervene-as-little-as-possible/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-first-major-finding-of-a-new-soil-study-intervene-as-little-as-possible" id="OWAc3ada2cf-c562-9444-e422-ed9ef7e57cd9" class="OWAAutoLink">https://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2025/05/the-first-major-finding-of-a-new-soil-study-intervene-as-little-as-possible/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-first-major-finding-of-a-new-soil-study-intervene-as-little-as-possible</a></div>
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4. In contrast, combined interventions worked best to restore grasslands to health.
<a href="https://phys.org/news/2025-05-term-field-combined-approach-maximize.html" id="OWA6a731393-1222-b5fd-a14a-08fff912eda4" class="OWAAutoLink">
https://phys.org/news/2025-05-term-field-combined-approach-maximize.html</a> Grasslands, though little protected, play a major role in sequestering carbon and promoting biodiversity, among other matters.
<a href="https://www.wri.org/insights/grassland-benefits?apcid=0065832e7841868dfb23f800&utm_campaign=wridigest&utm_medium=email&utm_source=wridigest-2025-05-07" id="OWA25cae2e2-dec4-df87-085c-4fec6de56c31" class="OWAAutoLink">
https://www.wri.org/insights/grassland-benefits?apcid=0065832e7841868dfb23f800&utm_campaign=wridigest&utm_medium=email&utm_source=wridigest-2025-05-07</a></div>
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5. Grasslands recover biodiversity slowly, even with active management. <a href="https://phys.org/news/2025-03-pollinators-grasslands-years-full-biodiversity.html" id="OWAa1719f8b-2cfc-3ca3-9dd0-ea9055427972" class="OWAAutoLink">
https://phys.org/news/2025-03-pollinators-grasslands-years-full-biodiversity.html</a> </div>
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