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Youth Climate Strikes Have The $uperpower To Shut This Country Down & Force America To Take Emergency Climate Action

Creative Greenius

My friend and mentor, Bill McKibben has an Op Ed about this Friday’s Student Climate Strikes in today’s on-line edition of the LA Times that will be news to LAT readers but not to Creative Greenius devotees. And when they don’t show up for school on Climate Strike Day neither does that $47 for the school budget.

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A Personal Journey to Reducing Emissions

CleanTechnica EVs

By Phil Browne, as told to David Waterworth I’ve been on a personal journey to reduce my emissions, and hence my carbon footprint, over the last 20 years. This is my story — from the early beginnings, to supporting unique climate action projects, to charging our EV from home solar. My husband, Ray, and I […].

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IEEE Young Professionals Take On Climate Change

Cars That Think

Developing technology to address the causes of climate change, mitigate its impact, and adapt to the crisis is one of IEEE’s top priorities. To assist with that effort, the IEEE Young Professionals group this year launched its Climate and Sustainability Task Force. Partnering with IRENA, the U.N.,

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What One Man Can Do About The Climate — More Than Dream

CleanTechnica EVs

It’s easy to look at the daily news reporting on climate crisis after climate crisis and despair. What can one person do? Is it too late? My house was built 50 years ago — two stories, brick and glass. It was cheap at the time, in the outer suburbs of Brisbane, the sub-tropical […].

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Why EVs Aren't a Climate Change Panacea

Cars That Think

“Electric cars will not save the climate. There are two major reasons for this: first, EVs are not going to reach the numbers required by 2050 to hit their needed contribution to net zero goals , and even if they did, a host of other personal, social and economic activities must be modified to reach the total net zero mark.

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Volvo Cars unveils flagship electric SUV EX90

Green Car Congress

By then, the company aims for those two production facilities to be climate-neutral. The initially available twin-motor all-wheel drive version is powered by a 111 kWh battery and two permanent magnet electric motors together delivering—in its performance version—380 kW (517 hp) and 910 N·m of torque.

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Study: California will hit climate targets >100 years too late at current pace of reductions; transportation, wildfires & landfills

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California will meet its 2030 climate targets more than three decades late, in 2061, and could be more than 100 years late in meeting its 2050 target if the average rate of emissions reductions from the past year hold steady, according to a new study tracking more than a decade of environmental and economic indicators in the state.