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EPISODE · Feb 25, 2022 · 27 MIN

The Central Park Climate Lab, environmental justice in skiing, solar panel canopies, & more!

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Matt and Nick talk about The Central Park Conservancy, the Yale School of the Environment, and New York City’s Natural Areas Conservancy teaming up to open the Central Park Climate Lab (Central Park Is Opening a Lab to Study Climate Change - Bloomberg),Solar panel canopies over canals in the U.S. (First-in-the-nation project will cover canals with solar panel canopies | TheHill),An update on the clean energy push in Illinois by 2045 (Illinois to shut all fossil fuel plants by 2045 and invest $580M a year in renewables (electrek.co)),How climate change will impact skiing by making it less diverse (Rising costs of climate change threaten to make skiing a less diverse, even more exclusive sport (theconversation.com)),And students from several universities pressuring their schools to divest from fossil fuels (Yale, Princeton, Stanford, MIT and Vanderbilt students take legal action to try to force fossil fuel divestment - The Washington Post)!

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