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This is a photo of a bamboo forest.

Bamboo

This is a photo of labeled bike lanes on the street.

Bike Paths

This is a photo of a tractor moving a pile of steaming compost.

Composting and Reducing Food Waste

This is an image of a concentrated solar power plant that has a sunlight collection tower against a mountain backdrop.

Concentrated Solar Power

This is an image of rows of legume crops in pots, outside, with equipment suspended above them.

Crop Improvement

This is a photo of corn crop alternating with soybean crop.

Crop Rotation and Managed Grazing

A plate of salad with sliced avocado, lettuce, tomatoes on the vine, sliced bell pepper, chickpeas, cubes of sweet potato, shredded cabbage, and sprouts, with dressing drizzled over the top.

Eat A Plant Rich Diet

This is a photo of an electric car, zoomed in to show the charging port in place of a fuel filler inlet.

Electric Cars

A photo of a line of homes that have stilts to elevate them from the ground.

Elevating Homes

This is a photo of a cement sidewalk in a park taken from above. There is a park bench and some pigeons on the ground.

Emissions-free Cement

A geothermal power plant in Iceland

Geothermal Power

This is an image of a multi-storied apartment building surrounded by tall buildings in a city. The terraces of the apartment building are covered in vegetation, and there are lots of trees around the perimeter of the building as well.

Green Roofs and Walls

This is an image of a high speed train pulling into a train station.

High Speed Trains

A hydroelectric dam as viewed from above

Hydroelectric Dam

A nuclear power plant in India

Nuclear Power Plant

This is an image of cassava growing on a hillside in Vietnam. A cassava farmer is working on the cassava stem fencing that installed as a forage barrier between rows of cassava crop.

Planting Cassava

This is a photo from inside a public bus, looking towards the front of the bus with rows of seats on each side.

Public Transportation

This is an image of green stormwater management where water is directed from the road into a terraced garden area alongside the road.

Rain Gardens

This is a photo of of an apartment building with rows of window-unit air conditioners installed in the windows.

Remove HFCs from air conditioners

This is an image of large field solar panels arranged in rows, tilted slightly towards the Sun.

Solar Energy

Wind turbines in a landscape

Wind Turbines

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This material is based upon work supported by the NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, a major facility sponsored by the U.S. National Science Foundation and managed by the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material do not necessarily reflect the views of the U.S. National Science Foundation.