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

Cars That Think

Where we could manage and then reduce the amount of carbon in our atmosphere? Bill Gates wrote an entire book, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster : The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need. Where everyone had access to preventative health care that was both personalized and less invasive?

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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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BMW unveils the production i3 in New York, London and Beijing; efficiency, dynamics and a supporting ecosystem of services

Green Car Congress

With its new architecture, use of carbon fiber reinforced plastic, and premium mobility service offerings, the “ i3 marks the beginning of a new mobility age ,” said Dr. Reithofer. EVs in general currently have a larger carbon burden in the production phase than conventional vehicles (e.g.,

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NYU Researchers Pave the Way for Future Shared Mobility

Cars That Think

This enormous growth has at least in part been driven by the aim of reducing vehicle carbon emissions to address climate change concerns. But nowadays, when you book a trip, that single trip might be operated by three different airlines. The collection of technologies and markets that comprise so-called.

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

Creative Greenius

on us when the hell and high water (as Joe Romm’s great book of 2006 called it) arrives in your neighborhood and becomes impossible to ignore any longer at your house. . Don’t go acting all surprised, shocked and “How could this ever have happened?&#

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

Creative Greenius

The Torrance Hillside Overlay district , covers most of the historic Hollywood Riviera neighborhood where the Creative Greenius lives and I can tell you that it’s a zoning law that is pure politics. No, but I knew who they were and they wrote the books and they lived in L.A. Joel Davidson would be the primary one.

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

Creative Greenius

” on us when the hell and high water (as Joe Romm’s great book of 2006 called it) arrives in your neighborhood and becomes impossible to ignore any longer at your house. . Don’t go acting all surprised, shocked and “How could this ever have happened?”

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