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Yale George Mason Survey: US Publics Concern About Global Warming Dropping

Green Car Congress

Sixty-five percent distrust Republicans Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sarah Palin as sources of information, while 53% distrust former Democratic Vice President Al Gore and 49% distrust President Barack Obama. Climate Change in the American Mind: Americans’ Global Warming Beliefs and Attitudes in January 2010.

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Are You Plugged In?

Revenge of the Electric Car

Answer: Al Gore is an investor in Fisker through venture-capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Connect the investor to the electric-vehicle developer: A. Fisker Automotive. Tesla Motor. Bright Automotive. Reuben Munger. Sergey Brin and Larry Page. Warren Buffett.

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What about the Pickens Plan?

Plugs and Cars

GM’s centennial celebration in mid-September saw the unveiling of the production version of the Chevrolet Volt, still scheduled for appearance in showrooms in November 2010. Tags: joe romm pickens plan t boone pickens al gore cng. Hundreds of articles were published asking if the Volt can save GM. Video embedded below post.)

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Environmentalists fight for green domain

Green Cars News

Former US vice president Al Gore backed a by Californian group Dot Eco to operate the domain. Both firms plan to apply to Icann, the regulatory body that oversees domain names, for the creation of.eco early in 2010. Environmental groups are preparing to try to take control of a new net domain designed for green groups.

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Letter from Copenhagen

Revenge of the Electric Car

They demonstrated 4 different models of pure EVs coming in 2010-11 to Europe. And we had a screening of “Who Killed the Electric Car&# at a film festival where Al Gore greeted us and had a few things to say about the culture wars. warmer there by the way). Chris Paine and Shai Agassi, Founder and CEO, Better Place.

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The Solangelist’s Vision Shines Brighter

Creative Greenius

Putting it in a policy perspective from my position here on the Lower Left Coast of the Golden State, statewide we’re at almost 13% renewable energy, but our prescient AB 32 mandates call for us to be at 20% in 2010 - which according to my calendar is just 9 months away.

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Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The Appraisal 2010 Prius Delivers Record Mileage and Accelerates. Shai Agassi predicts that Israel will have over 100,000 electric vehicles in use by 2010. DE (1) Platform technology (1) Play Pumps (1) Podcast (1) Prius (1) Prius 2010 (1) QCEG.F (1) The Three Prongs of the “Green&# Energy Stimulus Pa. SZ (1) 6753.T

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