Weekend Reads: Sustainable Style; Supersizing Solar and Wind

It's the weekend! Kick back and catch up with these must-read articles from around the web.

March 21, 2025

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Energy Efficiencies, Energy Storage, GHG Emissions, Solar, Wind

It’s the weekend! Kick back and catch up with these must-read articles from around the web:

Sustainable style: How fashion can reduce Tier 2 emissions (McKinsey) Reducing emissions in Tier 2 production is one of the fashion industry’s most complex challenges. Six actions can help make industry players more sustainable.

AI needs to be more energy-efficient (Scientific American) Artificial Intelligence uses too much energy. Developers need to find better ways to power it or risk adding to the climate crisis.

Is the big turnoff truly underway? (Autoweek) Donald Trump and Elon Musk may want to disconnect the entire federal EV fleet, but there’s plenty of confusion and early reports are unclear.

The sustainability sparks fly when geothermal energy, orphan wells & CAES all come together (CleanTechnica) In a new twist on the geothermal energy theme, a research team at Penn State University has developed an economical model that leverages the naturally occurring heat in unused oil and gas wells for compressed air energy storage.

‘It’s not science fiction’: The moonshot effort to supersize solar and wind (CBC News) Soaring demand for electricity is leading some companies to not only think out of the box for a solution, but out of this world, too. Researchers are looking to supersize the production of wind and solar power.