MOCA Receives Grant From Frankenthaler Climate Initiative to Take Museum Solar

The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA) has been selected to receive an award from the Frankenthaler Climate Initiative, a new grant-making program established by the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation that seeks to catalyze climate change action in the visual arts. It is the first program of its kind supporting energy efficiency and clean energy projects for the visual arts in the U.S. and is the largest private national grant-making program to address climate change action through cultural institutions. The grant will help The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA to achieve its goal of becoming a solar-powered museum.

LABBC is a proud partner of MOCA.

How to Protect the California Grid from Wildfire

As the Bootleg Fire in Oregon continues to burn, the impacts of the largest U.S. wildfire of 2021 have been felt well beyond the state’s border. Not only have the Bootleg Fire and other active fires blanketed skies with smoke as far away as New York City, but the fire also disrupted the delivery of electricity to nearby California, which depends on energy imports to keep the lights on.

Low-Cost, High-Value Opportunities to Reduce Embodied Carbon in Buildings

Buildings account for at least 39 percent of energy-related global carbon emissions on an annual basis. At least one-quarter of these emissions result from embodied carbon, or the carbon emissions associated with building materials and construction. The solutions for addressing embodied carbon in buildings have not been widely studied in the United States, leaving a significant knowledge gap for engineers, architects, contractors, policymakers, and building owners. Further, there is little information about the cost-effectiveness of reducing embodied carbon in buildings.

Better Buildings August Top 10 Solutions

The top 10 most-viewed resources on the Better Buildings Solution Center from the past month feature three successful waste reduction efforts. This month’s list also includes toolkits for energy project financing, clean energy access in low-income communities, and more. Check them out!

Podcast: How Biden’s Clean Electricity Standard Might Work

Last week, president Biden unveiled his administration's plan for a $3.5 trillion infrastructure plan which the democrats hope to pass through reconciliation. While the details are still sparse, we do know that one of the linchpins of the Biden administration's climate strategy -- a national clean electricity standard (CES) -- is included in the plan.

If you care about the power sector, a national CES might be the most impactful piece of legislation affecting it in decades. If you care about decarbonization, almost every pathway drives directly through a decarbonized power sector combined with large-scale electrification of other sectors such as transportation, industry and heating.

Public Workshop: Developing an Integrated Technology-To-Market Strategy

Are your projects and technologies slow to make it to market? Are they stuck in a valley of death? We all know technology commercialization is one of the largest barriers to moving innovations from the laboratory to the marketplace. In order to meet ambitious energy reduction and climate change mitigation goals, more building technologies need to be commercialized and available in the market than ever before.

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Building Technologies Office (BTO) is calling on stakeholders across research, industry, and investment finance to join our first Technology-to-Market Workshop.

When: August 31, 8 a.m. PT