B.U.D. Bronzeville Urban Development

B.U.D. Bronzeville Urban Development B.U.D. is the product of our life-long ambition to thrive sustainably within our community, and on P Our organization starts with education.

Education is the source of empowerment for individuals and communities. Our particular emphasis is sustainability. Our community needs to focus on S.T.E.M. as one of the most important means of sustainability for this century and those to come. We partner with like minded people, organizations and institutions to further the goals of sustainability.

09/03/2019
09/03/2019

Clean-energy affordable housing effort launches in Chicago
Robert “A.J.” Patton and Erica Johnson were childhood friends growing up in public housing in Terre Haute, Indiana...
Now the two are launching a company that they hope will provide quality housing to lower-income residents in Chicago, and avoid gentrification, by harnessing the potential of energy efficiency and solar. At the same time, they plan to provide jobs for low-income and minority residents who are disproportionately left out of the clean energy economy.
https://apnews.com/c0fdb5132fc74fa7894b2ece1d4b94e2

08/29/2019

The toxic waste threat that climate change is making worse.
More than 100 storage sites for coal-burning power plants’ toxic leftovers lie in areas that federal emergency managers have labeled a high risk for flooding, according to POLITICO’s examination of government and industry data.

08/28/2019

Plant trees for cleaner carbon free air.
Of all the solutions to climate change, ones that involve trees make people the happiest. Earlier this year, when a Swiss study announced that planting 1.2 trillion trees might cancel out a decade’s worth of carbon emissions, people swooned (at least on Twitter). And last month, when Ethiopian officials announced that twenty-three million of their citizens had planted three hundred and fifty million trees in a single day, the swooning intensified. Someone tweeted, “This should be like the ice bucket challenge thing.” https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/dont-burn-trees-to-fight-climate-changelet-them-grow

08/26/2019

So how does the "Clean Peak Standard" work ?
The basic idea was that renewable portfolio standards (RPS) — requirements by states that a certain amount of energy come from renewables — bolsters clean energy development, but it’s not necessarily designed for use when the grid needs it most. This leads to challenges such as California’s “duck curve” that occurs when solar generation quickly drops off and has to be augmented with peaking plants, often run on fossil fuels.

Com Ed at it again and always.
08/25/2019

Com Ed at it again and always.

Critics say the Illinois Smart Solar Alliance, which was recently founded by Chicago-based ComEd, is little more than a front group created to push controversial, utility-backed legislation in Illinois. However, the alliance’s supporters say the group is helping bring access to solar power for low...

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