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CEO Mary Barra & General Motors Make Sure The Greenius Is Rewarded For His Many Years Of EV Advocacy

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Debra and I finally got our first electric car, A 2012 Toyota RAV4 EV, a joint production with Tesla, in January of 2013. It was a great machine, and we loved it, but it was quickly an orphan as Toyota took no responsibility for knowing the car and Tesla ignored it.

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I’ve Done The Math – Now I’m Doing Something About It

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Bill McKibben’s “Do The Math” article in 2012′s Rolling Stone magazine taught us that we cannot burn any more than 565 gigatons of carbon if we want to stay at 2° or lower. You know how the Greenius loves a challenge and how little I fear anything… except maybe The Math itself.

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Heidi On The Hot Seat

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It’s a daunting task made ever more difficult by the ambitious goal of those action plans - reducing our region’s greenhouse gas emissions 7% below what they were in 1990 - in just the next four years, by 2012. Just as they will continue to do until some historic action still-to-come is taken - if in fact it is taken.

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It’s 2010 – Are YOU Ready for The Greenius Decade?

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And ready for the carbon credits solar owners will be getting when California institutes Cap and Trade in 2012. My friends at the South Bay COG and the Environmental Services Center are already on board for this mission and I’m going to be an integral part of that effort. Money talks and money motivates.

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Solar Smackdown in Torrance – Installer Sues City on Behalf of the Sun

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Every one of these cities in the South Bay has signed onto a pledge to be a Cool City and reduce their GHG emissions as a city below 1990 levels by 2012. I think there’s another perspective you can come from too.

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Your Greenius Earth Day Reality Check: Waiting For The Magic Bullet

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Today is Earth Day 2012, a day filled with celebrations of the environment and all the things being done to try and improve it and make it more sustainable. So what am I doing today for Earth Day 2012? You can go to events where you recycle your old paper tax records, your motor oil, your cellphone, computers and other electronics. .

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Your Greenius Earth Day Reality Check: Waiting For The Magic Bullet

Creative Greenius

Today is Earth Day 2012, a day filled with celebrations of the environment and all the things being done to try and improve it and make it more sustainable. So what am I doing today for Earth Day 2012? You can go to events where you recycle your old paper tax records, your motor oil, your cellphone, computers and other electronics. .