Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2019

The Keeling Curve Prize (KCP) has selected 10 winners for 2019, among them Opus 12 (Berkeley, California) which is developing a device that recycles CO? The KCP winners, announced during a celebration at the Aspen Ideas Festival on Friday, 28 June, were chosen from almost 150 applications from all over the world. Earlier post.).

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has slammed California’s plan for homeowners who use solar panels in their homes. Musk noted that the idea, which essentially penalizes sustainable energy, is “insane.” Those opposed to the proposal warned that the initiative could undermine the state’s efforts to address climate change.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 25, 2011

The California Air Resources Board (ARB) is soliciting research suggestions for the Fiscal Year 2012-2013 Annual Research Plan in the form of brief conceptual descriptions that address specified research gaps and support the Board’s ongoing regulatory and policy priorities. The deadline to submit research concepts is 31 January 2012.

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Creative Greenius

AUGUST 20, 2010

It’s been a rewarding and exhilarating 34 weeks since I first sat down with DiVirgilio, Dency Nelson and Robert Fortunato at the Planet Earth Café to propose that Hermosa Beach become the first municipality in Southern California to go carbon neutral and rebrand itself as the “Green Idea City.&#.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 5, 2011

Solar radiation management (SRM) is one of the geoengineering techniques proposed as a potential means of offsetting some of the anthropogenic radiative forcing of climate as a means to reduce climate change. Earlier post.) However, the effectiveness and associated risks of SRM are uncertain.

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Creative Greenius

JUNE 17, 2014

. “ These amazing young people are absolutely right, too, ” continued Ted enthusiastically. “ Community Choice Aggregation is just about the best idea we’ve ever had in California about how we should deliver electricity to our communities. Yeah, I know that none of this really happened. But it will.

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Creative Greenius

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Long Beach is fast on the way to becoming the most bicycle friendly city in California. citizen volunteer climate change environment Hermosa Beach Sharrows South Bay Bicycle Coalition. The result? Step one to get there is for a strong bicyclist turnout for Wednesday (Oct 20) night’s public forum on Hermosa Beach Sharrows.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

Starting a company to develop an energy technology that fights climate change is hard—a lot harder than starting a software company. Breakthroughs in battery technology, carbon sequestration, and other energy technologies that result in a five-fold improvement over current technology could literally change the world.

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Teslarati

AUGUST 13, 2021

After moving from the East Coast to teach at the University of California, it became pertinent for the 38-year old engineer and scientist to have his own driver’s license again. It is no stretch to state that California is the heart of the US’ electric vehicle transition. He drove a Tesla. Driving Tests from Hell.

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Creative Greenius

DECEMBER 21, 2009

If you’re a regular Creative Greenius reader you know that I’ve been writing for quite a while about California’s leadership on climate, renewable energy, environmental legislation and energy efficiency issues. I haven’t endorsed anyone else running for office in any race in 2010, but I’m endorsing you.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

An analysis by a team from the University of California, Davis, MIT and Yale suggests that households that buy a fuel-efficient vehicle tend to compensate for that purchase by buying a bigger, more powerful second vehicle. The idea that products can act as complements or substitutes is commonplace in economics. —Archsmith et al.

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Creative Greenius

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

Otherwise it will become impractical to constrain atmospheric carbon dioxide, the greenhouse gas produced in burning fossil fuels, to a level that prevents the climate system from passing tipping points that lead to disastrous climate changes that spiral dynamically out of humanity’s contro l.”. Walk the walk why don’t you?

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Creative Greenius

MARCH 8, 2009

The loans for solar power, authorized under California’s AB 811 , are added as assessments to a homeowner’s property tax bills and are passed on to the new owner if a home is sold. It’s a pretty good idea isn’t it? Here’s my proposal for. the Torrance Citizens Environmental Task Force.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 11, 2023

It occurred in the wake of the California electricity crisis of 2000 and 2001, when mismanaged deregulation, market manipulation, and environmental catastrophe combined to unhinge the power grid. ACP looked at other ways of marketing its technology and saw an opportunity in the California electricity crisis then unfolding.

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Electric Auto Association

APRIL 1, 2021

The idea of running out of power and getting stranded on the side of the road can be terrifying to women for safety reasons. Automakers must change perspective “It’s important to consider that women tend to have the final say on family car decisions and electric cars have not been family oriented enough,” Sinclair said.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Such a conversion has never been done, but the report is another sign that the idea is gaining momentum—if with the slow steps of a baby needing decades to learn to walk. “A Department of Energy (DOE) released a report suggesting that, in theory, over 300 former and present coal power plants could be converted to nuclear.

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Creative Greenius

APRIL 12, 2009

As the climate change crisis goes from bad to worse (while the deniers get nuttier and more cult-like with each passing day) and Australia gives Californians an advanced sneak preview at what is without a doubt headed our way sooner than you expect , your Creative Greenius has only gotten more Fired Up, Ready to Go!

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Cars That Think

MARCH 24, 2022

Gerald Estrin led the development of the WEIZAC , the first digital electronic computer made in the Middle East, and he helped found the computer science department at the University of California, Los Angeles. In 1985 she joined the University of Southern California , in Los Angeles, as a computer science professor.

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Creative Greenius

JULY 27, 2013

Detroit is an unprecedented opportunity to use the tremendous assets already in place to reimagine and reinvent its post-industrial future and address the great challenge of the 21st century – no, it’s not dealing with deficits or pension obligations, it’s adapting to climate change and building a sustainable society.

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EV Match

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

There were also ideas about deploying city-owned EV charging infrastructure at park-and-rides and creative ways to make charging infrastructure available to high-mileage rideshare drivers, who often drive 30,000+ miles per year! And based on my observations of who was in the room at GTSE, there’s clearly a lot of work to be done.

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Creative Greenius

MARCH 6, 2009

Nor did the Commissioners have any ideas for incentives or fast tracking possibilities to encourage more green building in Torrance. They basically asked Mr. Koch to write something up for them. Fred graciously said he would. That’s what the Manhattan Beach Environmental Task Force did last month when I attended their last meeting.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

California is not on track to meet the greenhouse gas reductions expected under SB 375 for 2020, with emissions from statewide passenger vehicle travel per capita increasing and going in the wrong direction, according to a new report published by the California Air Resources Board (ARB).

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Creative Greenius

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

When I talked with Lillian she said, “Sure,&# she’d do an interview with me and then asked if I was going to the climate change communications workshop at UCLA that Wednesday. We only had 20 minutes to brainstorm so we didn’t work out every detail, but it seemed like an idea worth pursuing.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

The “cash for volts&# approach was touted Monday by the Electrification Coalition, a 13-member group that sees electric plug-ins as the answer to a host of problems, from dependence on foreign oil to tailpipe emissions that some believe is contributing to global climate change. lawmakers are supportive of the idea.

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Creative Greenius

MAY 14, 2009

He’s tried the sugar and honey approach for ten years but instead of catching flies he’s caught hassles and obstructions from local Southern California city officials who haven’t kept up with modern technology and remain both ignorant and adversarial when it comes to helping their citizens go solar. “ Idiots !

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Creative Greenius

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

Last night at the Hermosa Beach, California City Council meeting, Mayor Michael DiVirgilo, confirmed that he and the City Council are committed to making their iconic beach town a Carbon Neutral City at the earliest possible date. He encouraged us to develop our ideas into steps the City could take action on.

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Creative Greenius

AUGUST 17, 2009

When I first met Elizabeth I had no idea that there were so many Tongan Americans living in large communities in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Salt Lake City, Dallas and other cities across the USA. But surprisingly, a subject Elizabeth didn’t know a lot about is Tonga’s frontline role as a victim of the climate change crisis.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2019

—Omar Yaghi, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley and a pioneer in this area of chemistry, who was not involved in the study. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, limiting global temperature increases to 1.5 MOFs have the largest surface areas of any known material.

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Plug in America

MARCH 25, 2022

It all started with President Barack Obama and as DEED begins, we’re taking the opportunity to briefly revisit the tale, with a related nod to the mother of climate change policy, as former Sen. We got three letters of support for our parade application to the White House: From then California Gov. ” in Santa Monica.

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Creative Greenius

OCTOBER 15, 2009

In the 15 months that have passed since I wrote the following, ALL the climate change news has gone from bad, to worse, to much worse than that. For the past three months I’ve been working night and day as the Chairman of the South Bay Los Angeles 350 Climate Action Group. don’t be looking for FEMA to bail you out.

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Creative Greenius

JULY 19, 2009

And what’s working for the Greenius and Mrs. Greenius will work for the rest of America, even the little brain people who aren’t sure if climate change is man-made or not and probably even the Stepford brainwashed pod people who think Al Gore is a bad man. California Is the Place You Want To Be.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 13, 2023

And before we start, I just want to tell you that you can get the latest coverage from some of Spectrum’s most important beats, including AI, climate change, and robotics, by signing up for one of our free newsletters. And the basic idea is-- some people are familiar with these things like VPNs. Barath, welcome to the show.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

With its potential for societal, economic, and personal upheaval, climate change calls for tools that give us humans orders-of-magnitude more capability. My lab at the University of California, Berkeley, saw that point coming more than a decade earlier. Semiconductors can raise the abilities of humanity like no other technology.

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Creative Greenius

JUNE 11, 2009

As our climate change crisis worsens and spins out of control with each passing day there’s no time to spare for those of us whose job it is to educate and motivate our fellow citizens to actions that cut our greenhouse gas emissions. Most have no idea. It’s a slam dunk.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 8, 2022

The idea that a researcher should program computer systems interactively was anathema to them. 1962, Stanford University, California, all in electrical engineering First job Planting cabbages First electronics job Technician, General Railway Signal Co., They were rather hostile to the idea,” he recalled, for several reasons.

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Setec Powerr

APRIL 26, 2022

The federal government is “teaming up with states and the private sector to build a nationwide network of EV chargers by 2030 to help create jobs, fight the climate change crisis, and ensure that this game-changing technology is affordable and accessible for every American. Even California struggles with this issue.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 17, 2024

And before I start, I just want to tell you that you can get the latest coverage of some of Spectrum’s most important beats, including AI, climate change, and robotics, by signing up for one of our free newsletters. And that’s a lot of the world out here in California, that’s most of San Francisco. Same idea, right?

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