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Japan aims to power the Tokyo Olympics with 100% renewable energy. They plan to use wind & solar energy to power the stadiums & athletes village. They also want to recycle the small amounts of gold, silver & copper from around 80,000 old phones by using the metals to create 5,000 medals.

Costa Rica went 300 days on 100% renewable energy in 2017.

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1. Renewable energy provided almost 100% of electricity production in Iceland, with about 73% coming from hydropower and 27% from geothermal power.

2. Germany aims to abandon fossil fuels by 2050 and generate 100% of its electricity from renewable energy sources.

3. There is a plan which would turn all energy generation in the US to 100% renewable with massive health and economic upsides by 2050

4. There is an island in the Scottish Hebrides that is owned entirely by its people. With a population of 83, the Isle of Eigg has been owned by its community since being bought in 1997, after decades of issues with absentee landlords, and generates 100% of its electricity using renewable energy

5. Verizon accidentally sent a customer a rare iPhone 6 prototype upon contract renewal, the customer quickly took the rare handset to eBay and sold it for $100,000 to a bidder

6. The small country of Costa Rica ran 300 days out of 100% renewable energy

7. 100% of Iceland's electricity, 85% of its total energy use, is from domestic, renewable sources.

8. Iceland is the only country in the world that can claim to obtain 100% of its electricity and heat from renewable sources.

9. The City of Burlington gets 100% (+/-1%) of its Electricity From Renewable Sources

10. Paraguay has the 2nd and 25th largest hydroelectric dams in the world that provides 100% renewable and clean energy but suffers constants blackouts due to poor distribution infraestructure

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Apple's new Campus is expected to be a "net-zero energy" facility, meaning it will generate 100 percent of its power from renewable energy sources, including 700,000 square feet of onsite solar panels. (That's enough to generate 8 megawatts of power. Enough to power roughly 4,000 homes.)

Munich's Oktoberfest is running on 100% renewable energies - source

Adobe has an atrocious cancellation fee. If you happen to have just got a yearly renewal, its well over $100 to cancel. - source

Masdar, a city being built in the UAE that is powered 100% by the sun and other renewable energy sources. The construction is expected to cost nearly 20 billion dollars and be complete by 2025. It will be the headquarters of many clean tech companies and global agencies.

Portugal ran on 100% renewable power for the whole of March! - source

Europe and North Africa could run on 100% renewable energy by 2050.

In 2015 Sweden had achieved 52.6% of total energy consumption from renewable sources, smashing their 2020 goal of 49%! They now aim for 100% renewable electricity production by 2040.

The Orkney Islands are 100% powered by renewable energy.

Technically and economically we can have 100% renewable energy

A man named David Deng scammed 100 Chinese immigrants into joining his own fake army complete with uniforms,ID's, and banners, and he pulled it off so well that he was only caught when his soldiers went to an actual military base to renew their membership.

The Chinese ran an entire province of more than 5 million citizens on completely renewable energy for 7 days in 2017. Between June 17 and 23, the Chinese province of Qinghai survived entirely on 100% renewable energy, incuding solar, wind and hydro power.