2021 International Climate Action Challenge
90 Day Eco Champion
Have you ever heard of COP26? Not everyone has! Think Greener, LLC is preparing for another carbon neutral 3-month travel around the world! We depart in late October with intensions of attending the 2021 United Nations Global Climate Change Conference, often referred to as Conference of the Parties (COP26). The 26 stands for the number of annual meetings held since 1995. This year, it will be held in Glasgow, Scotland between October 31st and November 12th and it is the… Continue reading
How to Build the
New Energy Transition
As the world enters an epic energy transition, decentralization of large power plants and switching to regional renewable infrastructure, like wind and solar, are critical. This is an incredible undertaking the construction industry must support!
More than $4 trillion will be spent by 2030 to meet our net zero goal! It will also require tripling the amount of current production of renewables such as wind and solar. In the next decade, the United States is expected to spend $1trillion on renewable energy.
For this energy transition to become a reality, the world needs to come together and scale up financing, specialized engineering teams, pre-construction and construction processes, consultants, labor, procurement of materials, transportation, and technology. Innovations in technology… Continue reading
New Uses for Old
Wind Turbine Blades
Sustainable solutions helping to reverse climate change come in many shapes, sizes and are implemented at different levels of society! Today’s spotlight will focus on brilliant ways people in Denmark are upcycling old wind turbine blades.
While recently in Denmark, Think Greener, LLC noticed their wind turbines everywhere, both on land and offshore, providing 40% of Denmark’s energy. In my recent blog “Are Wind Turbines Sustainable?”, I discussed the problems of older windfarms coming to the end of their lifecycle and the blades are not recyclable.
Denmark has come up with some revolutionary ways to upcycle the large blades and divert them from landfills. In the past, I have learned about architectural firms repurposing these blades as… Continue reading
Today, Think Greener, LLC traveled to Lambertville, New Jersey to spotlight a sustainable Net-Zero Gaia’s Way Farm. This was the first of three spotlights selected for our 90-Day International Climate Action Challenge 2021, facilitated by the Green Team Academy.
We were blessed with beautiful weather to shoot with three different camera angels while capturing utterly amazing content! Gaia’s Way Farm is a great example of a single-family residence that is off the grid, self-sustaining, not connected to any municipal water or waste infrastructure.
While continuing to renovate the historic farmhouse, the owners implement the principal of upcycling used construction material. They managed to divert 98% of construction waste from the landfill. Following the guidelines of LEED and WELL rating systems, they track and measure… Continue reading