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How Engineers Can Help Protect Earth From Worsening Climate Change

Cars That Think

Fortunately, we still have a narrow window of opportunity to alter the Earth’s climate path, and I believe we can do it. Climate change is a global societal crisis that is causing devastating consequences. Lives and businesses are being severely affected, and the cost of recovering after each event continues to mount.

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Log9 to revolutionise EV landscape with Amphion and Nexmile launch | Autocar Professional

Baua Electric

The unveiling of Amphion by Log9 at their Day Zero 2024 event marks a significant transformation in the electric vehicle (EV) ecosystem. The event was graced by Narayana Murthy, ex CEO and Co-Founder of Infosys, and Sonam Wangchuk, Education Reformist and Climate Activist.

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Students Use Their Tech Know-How to Protect the Environment

Cars That Think

Climate change is a problem for communities around the world. According to the Natural Resources Defense Council , climate change contributes to severe weather events such as hurricanes, flooding, and tornadoes, as well as long-term drought and regularly occurring heat events in traditionally moderate climate zones.

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I’ve Done The Math – Now I’m Doing Something About It

Creative Greenius

And so it is that I resigned from my position as Director of Strategic Partnerships and Public Affairs for CBS EcoMedia effective the first of this month and I will now be devoting my full time to working on climate change response with the South Bay 350 Climate Action Group, the South Bay Bicycle Coalition and 350.org.

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Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already

Cars That Think

OpenAI certainly needed [cloud computing time] to build these models because they’re enormously expensive in terms of the computing needed. I wrote a list of about 30 or 40 events like this over the last 50 years where, it was going to be the next big thing. Climate change makes farming more difficult, more uncertain.

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GSI/UNEP conference report finds fossil-fuel subsidy reform complex and challenges sobering; ~1% of global GDP spent on fossil-fuel subsidies

Green Car Congress

The event featured representatives from international organizations such as the OECD, UNEP, World Bank, WTO and OPEC, as well as international forums such as G-20, APEC and the Friends group of countries that support reforming fossil-fuel subsidies, who shared and reviewed their perspectives and activities.

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Labour's £5,000 sweetener to launch electric car revolution | Environment | The Guardian

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

It will be launched today by Geoff Hoon, the transport secretary, and Lord Mandelson, the business secretary, with the aim of kickstarting the market for cleaner road vehicles and slashing the UKs CO2 emisisons. The new breed of electric car. Hoon said he was looking at ways of contributing to the mayors £60m plan. My Web del.icio.us