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Remembering Lithium-Ion Battery Pioneer John Goodenough

Cars That Think

National Medal of Science from President Barack Obama. Goodenough’s other honors included the Royal Society’s 2019 Copley Medal , a 2014 Charles Stark Draper Prize from the National Academy of Engineering, the 2001 Japan Prize , the 2018 Benjamin Franklin Medal , and a 2009 Enrico Fermi Award.

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Will lighter cars backfire on industry?

Green Cars News

President Barack Obama’s national fuel efficiency standards in the USA have come in for criticism in The Wall Street Journal where a columnist points out that there could be severe costs in terms of urban air pollution and human life. Most people know about the positive effects of developing greener, lighter cars.

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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

Green Car Congress

2 ] Rasmussen’s “one agreement, two steps” plan was quickly endorsed by US President Obama, as well as Australia’s Prime Minister Rudd and Russia’s President Medvedev, all of whom were present at the APEC summit. “ Bretton Woods plus Yalta, multiplied by Reykjavik. United States.

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Current climate policies destined for ‘imminent failure’

Green Cars News

In the period 2001 to 2006 this rose to 0.53. The Obama Administration has argued that one should never waste a good crisis. The report points out that between 1990 and 2000 the carbon intensity of the global economy was 0.27 tonnes for every additional $1000 of GDP. The world has been re-carbonising, not de-carbonising.

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The Most Powerful Greenius In America

Creative Greenius

And the same people who lapped that stuff up like the mindless minions they are, today use words like “socialist&# to describe President Obama and they nod along like bobble heads to every word of Rush Limbaugh and Fox News.

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Lillian Light Is No Lightweight - The Environmental Lioness of the South Bay is Fired Up, Ready To Go!

Creative Greenius

I began our interview by asking Lillian about the early days of EPN which she helped found in 2001. What was your environmental priority in 2001 and what is it today? Have you had the impact you hoped to have when you started the org in 2001? So that’s going to reach residents with the news about the climate agreement.

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