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Survey finds public support for geoengineering research; strongest opposition from conservatives

Green Car Congress

Geoengineering is the process of deliberately manipulating the Earth’s climate to counteract the effects of global warming, while SRM is a type of geoengineering that seeks to reflect sunlight by various means to reduce warming. The study found that public awareness of geoengineering is broad. Resources.

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Better Carbon Sequestration With AI

Cars That Think

Transcript Eliza Strickland: Technology to combat climate change got a big boost this year when the US Congress passed the Inflation Reduction Act , which authorized more than 390 billion for spending on clean energy and climate change. One of the big winners was a technology called carbon capture and storage.

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AI’s Threats to Jobs and Human Happiness Are Real

Cars That Think

There are some interesting experiments going on with universal basic income (UBI), like Sam Altman’s ambitious idea for WorldCoin. Lee: UBI may be necessary, by it’s definitely not sufficient. I had trouble harmonizing these two different ideas of the future. Is that correct?

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Timnit Gebru Is Building a Slow AI Movement

Cars That Think

Your press release about the founding of DAIR mentioned that AI is often presented as inevitable, and that you want to combat that idea. If AI is not inevitable, if it’s a choice to use it, are there any application areas right now where you think we should definitely choose not to use AI? Alex Hanna Brittany Hosea-Small.

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Who will be in the driver’s seat?

Electric Auto Association

There’s definitely change on the horizon,” said Sinclair, who is a member of both the San Francisco Bay Area chapter of Women of Electric Vehicles (WEV) , as well as EV Gals, a smaller, Bay Area-only group. The idea of running out of power and getting stranded on the side of the road can be terrifying to women for safety reasons.

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Feature: Going Green on Car Care, Repair and Insurance

Clean Fleet Report

Using less fuel definitely contributes to reaching the goals of going green enthusiasts. They have committed to planting five million trees, setting money aside for environmental protection and partnering with others for climate change initiatives. Repairs are another area to get greener. Eco-Friendly Care and Repair.

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Going with the talent flow

Electric Auto Association

Using Burma-Shave signs seemed like an idea that would work for us.” The EVEVA: Climate change and Al Gore’s influence Chapter Vice-President Al LePage, the executive director of an Oregon nonprofit trail organization, was jolted awake to the threat of climate change with the release of the UN's IPCC Climate Report in 2018.

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