Archinect - News 2024-12-22T05:28:38-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/120350994/burlington-vt-first-u-s-city-to-hit-100-renewable-energy Burlington, VT first U.S. city to hit 100% renewable energy Amelia Taylor-Hochberg 2015-02-09T13:36:00-05:00 >2018-01-30T06:16:04-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/7b/7b7eqo3rvmtknapy.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>Burlington&rsquo;s switch to renewable energy will reduce greenhouse gas emissions, save $20 million over the next 20 years and keep energy prices stable [...] The move is only one part of a solution for climate change, according to Taylor Ricketts, professor of Environmental Science at the University of Vermont. &ldquo;Climate change is the biggest problem we face, maybe the biggest problem we&rsquo;ve ever faced. But there&rsquo;s no silver bullet to fix it,&rdquo; he said.</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><head><meta></head></html>