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What Are Zero Emission Day and National Drive Electric Week?

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Plug In America, along with the Electric Vehicle Association and the Sierra Club , joined the effort and the first National Plug In Day was held on October 16th, 2011. Attend an online or in-person event. In 2014, the day was expanded to a whole week and National Drive Electric Week was born. Watch an EV parade. They’re safer.

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Special Guests at an LA Rally

Revenge of the Electric Car

was also spotted, along with author and radio personality Richard Greene, LA’s mayor, members of NRDC, The Sierra Club, Heal the Bay, and more. The event was organized by filmmakers for the documentary recently released on DVD, Fuel , directed by Josh Tickell- who was also in attendance and speaking at the rally.

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Q&A: Inside DARPA’s Subterranean Challenge

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DARPA designed the competition to advance practical robotics in extreme conditions, based around three distinct underground environments: human-made tunnels, the urban underground, and natural caves. A series of three preliminary circuit events would give teams experience with each environment. IEEE Spectrum. Can you talk about that?

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

Creative Greenius

So I sought the Bolt out at the EV events I attended and saw it for the first time in person at Exposition Park, but the car was locked and there were no Chevy people around to present the car. Showing Sierra Club bigwig, Evan Gillespie how much cargo room our car has. I sang the praises of the car and how GM stood behind it.

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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

Green Car Congress

The last official UNFCCC meeting prior to the 15 th Congress ended 6 November in Barcelona, and environment ministers have been shuttling in and out of Copenhagen since then to conduct ad hoc negotiations prior to the summit. ” —British Energy Secretary Ed Miliband, summing up the historical significance of COP 15. ºF) increase.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Home Page Todays Paper Video Most Popular Times Topics Search All NYTimes.com Energy & Environment World U.S. The other byproduct of such conversion is HEAT ( see below for more discussion, as well as other factors that affect energy conversion efficiency), usually dissipated into the environment. — Mark - Dallas 25.

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Lillian Light Is No Lightweight - The Environmental Lioness of the South Bay is Fired Up, Ready To Go!

Creative Greenius

We covered: global warming, nuclear power, clean air, smart growth, globalization and the environment. And on globalization we actually had a union person speak. I personally want us to do more about us getting out of Iraq but the committee voted against me and said it was not an environmental issue. It’s terrible.

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