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We Don’t Need a Jetsons Future, Just a Sustainable One

Cars That Think

Climate change is a great example. Jason Jacobs , the founder of the fitness app Runkeeper , has created an entire media business called My Climate Journey to find and help recruit tech folks to address climate change. What's more, we are changing. What about reducing pollution in urban and poor communities?

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Wayne Powell, Duddly Do Right For All The Right Reasons

Creative Greenius

Your Friendly Neighborhood Greenius (white shirt) talks to Manhattan Beach Councilman Wayne Powell (center) and Councilman Mark Burton at the 2014 Manhattan Beach Earth Day Celebration. One of the biggest mistakes your friendly neighborhood Greenius made was back in the day when I first met Wayne Powell in 2009. Right on, Wayne!

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Hey Google! Lets Reinvent Detroit Together Using Our Creative Greenius Before The Opportunivors Scavenge It

Creative Greenius

I went to Detroit last month and found myself in neighborhoods that looked like they had been attacked by enemy forces, had lost their battle and had now surrendered and in most part been abandoned. Climate change adaptation and Sustainability. The house above looks good to what I’m talking about. Communications.

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On the World’s Largest Cruise Ship, Thrills and Space to Chill

Baua Electric

Space The ship has the feel of a city, with eight distinct “neighborhoods.” All can be reserved on the app; for popular attractions like the Crown’s Edge it’s helpful to book ahead because places fill up fast. My favorite, Central Park, was filled with 20,000 plant species; it was the perfect place to stroll or read on a bench.

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Dude! What Part of Fires, Flood, Drought & Record Temps Didn’t You Understand?

Creative Greenius

Good old now dead Jackass, Ryan Dunn, never provided me with a single ounce of entertainment, but he has handily provided me with an apt metaphor for all his fellow Jackasses who keep talking smack and moron-level nonsense about global warming and climate change being a hoax. So he’s got that going for him now. Fair enough.

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Plug In America - Links and Resources

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Wakefield, 1998 "Taken For a Ride: Detroit's Big Three and the politics of pollution" by Jack Doyle Books on Peak Oil and Energy Transition "Beyond Oil: The view from Hubbert's Peak", by Kenneth S. com Vigil to save last remaining 78 EV1 cars www.pluginamerica.com/saveev1.htm htm Advocates of the Th! htm Advocates of the Th!

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Dude! What Part of Fires, Flood, Drought & Record Temps Didn’t You Understand?

Creative Greenius

Good old now dead Jackass, Ryan Dunn, never provided me with a single ounce of entertainment, but he has handily provided me with an apt metaphor for all his fellow Jackasses who keep talking smack and moron-level nonsense about global warming and climate change being a hoax. So he’s got that going for him now. Fair enough.

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