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We Need to Decarbonize Software

Cars That Think

s climate-change conference, to discuss the urgent need to lower emissions. The W3C’s Sustainable Web Design Community Group released a draft of its Web sustainability guidelines , with both tactical and technical recommendations for business and product strategy, user-experience design, Web development, and hosting and infrastructure.

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Open platform solution for electric car networking

Green Cars News

According to the finance chief for London’s climate change programme, Padmesh Sukla, inspiration can be taken from Sun Microsystems’ Java platform. It seems that though we are still some time away from a completed idea on charge point networking, an open platform may set things on the right road.

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

Creative Greenius

Its wholly interpretive guidelines can be used to approve or disapprove a building, addition or remodel completely on subjective principles. They’re now adopting the guidelines in Torrance based on the guidelines of the state. And people have no idea what’s coming with coal and what that’s going to cost them in electric bills.

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Honda launches new “Green Path” initiatives for manufacturing and operations; new $210M paint line at Marysville with new 4C2B process

Green Car Congress

Using Honda’s guidelines, Honda and Acura dealers in the US have cut annual CO 2 emissions by more than 10,000 tons, and reducing annual energy costs by more than $1.8 Honda’s associates in the plant have contributed numerous ideas and solutions toward this end. million dollars.

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RESPONSE TO: Ministry of Transport’s Charging Our Future: Discussion Document

Drive Electric

The Climate Change Commission’s analysis shows that by 2030 67% of cars entering the New Zealand market are EV. There are also innovative ideas that could be explored if businesses wish to install chargers in their employee’s home – e.g. forms of tax incentives. The scale of this transition cannot be underestimated.

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Using the PHEV (Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle) to Transition Society Seamlessly and Profitably From Fossil Fuel to 100% Renewable Energy

Green Car Congress

In the past the auto industry has responded to incentives and guidelines set by government agencies and reengineered their product to meet this requirement. Government agencies and others are already talking about change, but not with a vision of how it can be accomplished in a timely and coordinated fashion.

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