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Minding the gap between mass transit and ride-hailing apps
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As Uber and Lyft become more widely available, researchers zero in on how these ride-hailing services are affecting urban development and the environment.

Minding the gap between mass transit and ride-hailing apps

With support from the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy, doctoral students Caitlin Gorback and Summer Dong are researching how services like Uber and Lyft are changing our transport habits, cities, and environments.

Gina Vitale Michele W. Berger

Contest fosters local solutions to global sustainability challenges
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Rising senior Richard Ling started a nonprofit, Collective Cause, and through that, ran a competition called Sustainable Solutions. The goal was to encourage high school and college students to brainstorm local solutions to meet the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals.

Contest fosters local solutions to global sustainability challenges

SoleProvider won the Sustainable Solutions competition created by rising senior Richard Ling. The automated texting system offers Philadelphia’s homeless a simple way to request a particular need and for users to fulfill it.

Michele W. Berger

A unique perspective on renewable energy
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    • A unique perspective on renewable energy

    In a conversation with Rachel Kyte, the U.N. special representative and CEO of Sustainable Energy for All discusses how this energy sector has changed in the past decade and what happens when political will doesn’t match the science.

    Michele W. Berger

    The Green New Deal: What it says, what it doesn’t say, and how close we are to adopting it
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    In February, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) introduced a non-binding resolution to Congress known as the Green New Deal. It’s unclear how far it will progress, but it is fueling a long-needed conversation about climate change, according to Mark Alan Hughes of Penn’s Kleinman Center.

    The Green New Deal: What it says, what it doesn’t say, and how close we are to adopting it

    Mark Alan Hughes, director of the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy, discusses the basics of this energy-mobilization proposal.

    Michele W. Berger

    Power struggle: Nuclear energy contends with climate change
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    Power struggle: Nuclear energy contends with climate change

    Earth and Environmental Science Department Chair Reto Gieré explains how 40 years after the worst nuclear accident in the U.S., a global energy dilemma endures.

    Penn Today Staff

    When green ‘fixes’ actually increase the carbon footprint
    The Amazon World Headquarters Campus Spheres terrariums

    When Amazon announced plans to bring its headquarters (seen here) to Seattle a decade ago, it promised eco-friendly infrastructure and encourages a sustainability ethos to go along with it. But according to new research from Penn and others, its arrival likely led to gentrification and stable or increased carbon emissions.

    When green ‘fixes’ actually increase the carbon footprint

    New research shows that when tech companies move in, they often encourage a sustainability mindset, but lead to gentrification and stable or higher emissions.

    Michele W. Berger

    Bringing reliable power to all of India
    Bringing reliable, sustainable power to India

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    Bringing reliable power to all of India

    Doing so requires a just and sustainable energy transition and common but differentiated responsibilities among nations to mitigate effects of energy systems on climate change.

    Michele W. Berger , Lindsey Samahon

    Five things to know about the new EPA acting administrator
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    Five things to know about the new EPA acting administrator

    Following Scott Pruitt’s resignation, will Andrew Wheeler stay the course or chart a new path for the agency, and what does it mean for the environment?

    Michele W. Berger

    Science fiction or the future of trucking?
    Sociologist Steve Viscelli studies the trucking industry. A report publishing soon looks at what effect driverless trucks will have on the industry as a whole.

    Sociologist Steve Viscelli studies the trucking industry. A report publishing soon looks at what effect driverless trucks will have on the industry as a whole.

    Science fiction or the future of trucking?

    Driverless trucks seem like science fiction, part of a far-off world where robots and humans live and work side by side.

    Michele W. Berger

    Energy podcast brings esoteric, provocative topics down to earth
    Former EPA administrator Gina McCarthy talks with "Energy Policy Now" producer Andy Stone.

    Former EPA administrator Gina McCarthy talks with “Energy Policy Now” producer Andy Stone. (Photo: Courtesy of the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy)

    Energy podcast brings esoteric, provocative topics down to earth

    A little more than a year into its podcast series, the Kleinman Center has hit its stride, bringing interesting and intriguing energy-related topics to a broad audience. Now, the key is to keep the momentum going.