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X PRIZE Foundation Announces Wendy Schmidt Oil Cleanup X CHALLENGE

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Wendy Schmidt is president of The Schmidt Family Foundation, Founder of the Foundation’s 11 th Hour Project and Climate Central, as well as Co-founder, with her husband Eric (CEO of Google), of the Schmidt Marine Science Research Institute. Diamandis together with Wendy Schmidt, who personally funded the $1.4 million prize purse.

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Europe Expands Virtual Borders To Thwart Migrants

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Following Spain’s SIVE experience, in 2011. funded research project published the results of using Google search data to predict international migration. Outbursts of violence, economic precarity, and perhaps even climate change will motivate migrants despite the technological barriers. Member States,” says geographer.

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Labour's £5,000 sweetener to launch electric car revolution | Environment | The Guardian

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The scheme, which would be enforced by setting a ceiling for the amount of CO2 a car emits, will become operational in 2011. How the money would be distributed is yet to be decided but Hoon said it would be available only to people buying cars that ran entirely, or for the vast majority of their time, on electricity. My Web del.icio.us

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Coming Soon – The Electric City

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Robert Hayden, the clean transportation adviser for San Francisco, said the city hopes to have 60 charging stations installed in public garages by year’s end, with a thousand more available across the Bay Area in 2011. And in Oregon, an advisory group is working on charging stations and related issues.

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How Do EVs Compare To Gas Cars?

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You can see these clearly in EV charging maps like Open Charge Map , PlugShare , Chargemap or even Google Maps. Research also shows that while there were only 2.379 public charging stations in Europe in 2011, the number jumped to over 190.000 in 2020.

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Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

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Cleantech Blog Cleantechblog.com, the premier cleantech site for commentary on news and technology relating to clean tech, greentech, energy, climate change and carbon, and the environment. Ontological Shock An Open Letter to Fred Krupp Report from GridEcon Conference SGS Climate Change Head on the First Carbon Credit. SZ (1) 6753.T

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Rapid Charging Electric Cars: How Fast, How Soon?

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Analysts Say No First Up for Google Ventures: Silver Spring’s Smart Grid » Comments & Trackbacks I don’t want to wait for my car to charge. Also hopefully by the end of 2011 (when the Model S car is due) our economy has recovered somewhat. Digg Stumble Reddit del.icio.us Email « Is It a Solar Bottom?