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For the Colorado Energy Office (CEO), GDS Associates, Inc. (GDS) completed a modeling analysis of the market potential for beneficial electrification in Colorado. Beneficial electrification is an emerging trend across the United States. With the electricity sector making major movements in many states to reduce reliance on coal and other fossil fuels, electricity is being looked to as a solution for reducing the consumption of other fossil fuels --...
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This report is a companion to a beneficial electrification modeling report. The modeling report estimated the potential for residential, commercial, and industrial building electrification from 2021-2030 to help Colorado meet its greenhouse gas emissions reduction goals. This market barriers and policy report presents additional information on the current market challenges to beneficial electrification in Colorado and presents recommendations for...
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This project aims to assist CDOT with the initial implementation of Section 118 of Colorado HB 21-1303, "The Buy Clean Colorado Act". The bill requires contractors to submit Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) for asphalt and asphalt mixtures, cement and concrete mixtures, and steel installed on CDOT projects. Ultimately, the bill instructs CDOT to establish greenhouse gas (GHG) emission limits for these materials, and contractors on CDOT construction...
7) The soil will save us: how scientists, farmers, and foodies are healing the soil to save the planet
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Thousands of years of poor farming and ranching practices and, especially, modern industrial agriculturehave led to the loss of up to 80 percent of carbon from the worlds soils. That carbon is now floating in the atmosphere, and even if we stopped using fossil fuels today, it would continue warming the planet. In The Soil Will Save Us, journalist and bestselling author Kristin Ohlson makes an elegantly argued, passionate case for "our great green...
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An award-winning, practical (and funny) guide to reducing your carbon footprint. Calculate your carbon footprint: with an item-by-item breakdown. Meet your company's carbon goals: using the latest research. Covid-19 and the carbon battle: understand the new global supply chain. This book breaks items down by the amount of carbon they produce, creating a calorie guide for the carbon-conscious. With engaging writing, leading carbon expert Mike Berners-Lee...
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Author David Farrier explores the traces we will leave for the very distant future. Modern civilization has created objects and landscapes with the potential to endure through deep time, whether it is plastic polluting the oceans and nuclear waste sealed within the earth or the 30 million miles of roads spanning the planet. Our carbon could linger in the atmosphere for 100,000 years, and the remains of our cities will still exist millions of years...
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By 1979, we knew nearly everything we understand today about climate change—including how to stop it. Over the next decade, a handful of scientists, politicians, and strategists, led by two unlikely heroes, risked their careers in a desperate, escalating campaign to convince the world to act before it was too late. This is their story, and ours. It tells the human story of climate change in rich, intimate terms, revealing in previously unreported...
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Bestselling author Bill McKibben turns activist in the first hands-on guidebook to stopping climate change, the world's greatest threat
Hurricane Katrina. A rapidly disappearing Arctic. The warmest winter on the East Coast in recorded history. The leading scientist at NASA warns that we have only ten years to reverse climate change; the British government's report on global warming estimates that the financial impact will be greater than the Great...
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Carbon is the chemical scaffolding of life and civilization; indeed, the great cycle by which carbon moves through organisms, ground, water, and atmosphere has long been a kind of global respiration system that helps keep Earth in balance. And yet, when we hear the word today, it is more often than not in a crisis context. Journalist Roston evokes this essential element, from the Big Bang to modern civilization. Charting the science of carbon--how...
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Inspired by Thomas Paine's classic, Common Sense, Frances Beinecke provides a concise account of what is at stake in the climate change debate. The impact of global climate change extends beyond environmental destruction. She challenges all Americans to demand a clean and sustainable energy future before it is too late. Doing so will help put Americans back to work, reduce our reliance on foreign oil, and create a healthier planet, for ourselves and...