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Earth Day isn’t Earth Hour, so you don’t have to turn off your lights – but you can do these things to help the environment
This year’s Earth Day will see people around the world come together to campaign for the protection of the environment.
Environmentalists everywhere will be marking the day like usual, but this year’s Earth Day is going to be more important than ever, since it’ll see the signing of the Paris climate agreement.
One thing people won’t be doing, however, is turning their lights off for an hour. That’s Earth Hour, an entirely different awareness-raising event, which is organised by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), rather than the Earth Day Network.

WHAT IS A MICROGRID?
A microgrid is a local energy grid with control capability, which means it can disconnect from the traditional grid and operate autonomously.
HOW DOES A MICROGRID WORK?
To understand how a microgrid works, you first have to understand how the grid works.

San Diego seems to be on the frontline of the battle against climate change, as the city has recently released a plan that includes running the municipality totally on renewable energy by 2035. The full future intentions for the city are outlined in a 74-page document entitled the Climate Action Plan.
The Climate Action Plan references “five bold strategies to reduce GHG emission,” which includes ideas for how cleaner energy can be implemented in buildings, plans for the production of clean energy, cleaner public transportation, plans for waste, and the topic of climate resiliency.

1. Un tarro de colonia
2. Un bote con restos de pintura
3. Una camiseta vieja
4. Cápsulas de café

En mitad del desierto de Nuevo México, Estados Unidos, está proyectada la construcción de una auténtica ciudad fantasma para 35.000 hipotéticos habitantes. Con un coste de mil millones de dólares, la bautizada como CITE es un proyecto destinado al estudio de nuevas tecnologías que se aplicarán en las ciudades del futuro.
La compañía Pegasus Global Holdings (LLC), especializada en proyectos de innovación y tecnología, trabaja desde 2012 en la creación del Centro para la Innovación, Prueba y Evaluación (CITE): ciudad de 15 millas cuadradas destinada a ser laboratorio de experimentos en ámbitos como el transporte, la construcción, la comunicación y la seguridad.

It was on August 15, 2015 that the Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that his government would electrify 18,452 un-electrified villages in the coming 1,000 days. The ministry of power headed by Piyush Goyal has been declaring targets achieved in this direction every week, with latest number of electrified villages being 7,991.
The data, however, has been contested as power supply being a state subject continues to elude these villages, as per independent reports. The blame game continues as the states’ data on electrified villages and Centre’s announcement, don’t match. Some states do not have any database on un-electrified and semi-electrified villages, making monitoring difficult. To put to rest this discrepancy, the ministry of power would now install modems and SCADA systems on every rural power supply feeder to track power supply.

Like its fellow competitor cities, San Francisco putting the final touches on its proposal for the U.S. Department of Transportation decides the winner of the Smart City Challenge, which will provide $50 million in federal funding to build a smart city. Unlike its fellow cities, though, it also has $150 million in pledged private sector support if it wins.
The final seven cities were announced last week, they include Austin, Columbus, Denver, Kansas City, Pittsburgh, Portland, and San Francisco. A panel of federal judges will decide the winner later this week.

Britain’s departure from the EU will force broad changes to the bloc’s energy and climate policies, and remove a crucial ally for Central Europeans — but it will also give London far more freedom to pursue nuclear projects.
The U.K. has often been an energy outlier in the EU, advocating nuclear power and shale gas sources shunned by others. Its alliances tend to shift, always with the aim of keeping interference from Brussels to a minimum and taking an ambitious yet financially minded approach to tackling climate change.

Fiji is making its mark as a leader in renewable energy thanks to an innovative start-up company focusing on supplying energy to the corporate sector. Sunergise is the brain-child of entrepreneurs from Africa and the Pacific and has attracted investment interest from the World Bank as well as from Australia, New Zealand, North America and China. Before Sunergise came along, the Port of Denarau Marina looked at installing solar but decided it was too difficult.