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IEEE’s Plan To Help Combat Climate Change

Cars That Think

The IEEE Board of Directors formed an ad hoc committee on climate change in February to coordinate its response to the global threat. Why should IEEE be involved in combating climate change? Why should members care about climate change? Rahman: Climate change is an existential threat to humanity.

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FTA looks to cut carbon and costs

Green Cars News

Reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from transport operations not only improves a company’s environmental performance but also makes business sense in terms of improved efficiency. Rachael Dillon, FTA Manager for Climate Change, said: “Until now freight transport has operated in a CO2 policy void.

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EPA finalizes strongest-ever truck rule to save billions in health & fuel costs

Baua Electric

EPA originally stated that the proposed rule would reduce carbon by 1.8 Now, EPA says that the proposed rule would have reduced carbon by 998 million tons under the revised baseline, or 1 billion tons for the final rule. We need to electrify transportation, and soon, and we simply aren’t doing enough to fight climate change.

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Greenius Is Fired Up Over Obama’s Green Economic Recovery Bill!

Creative Greenius

Fortunately for all of us, climate change guru, Joe Romm of Climate Progress, has already done the heavy lifting and outlined just how green and positive this new bill is. The EPA is about to start regulating deadly CO2 emissions from coal fired power plants. Read: Here’s What’s Green In It.

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Electric Car Makers: Oregon Wants You - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

A very low cost EV is taking a golf cart transaxle or whole GC rear/seat and weld, ect a MC front end, frame, title to it, change the batteries from 6vdc to 12vdc to double the voltage and use larger dia VW Rabbit tires and you can have a nice 1- 3 person MC trike that goes 45-55mph and 50+ mile range. Next: a carbon tax.

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Hey, Torrance City Council! Was That $80,000 Check You Took From Exxon A Bribe? Hush Money? Or Did You Just Sell Your Soul?

Creative Greenius

Click on the breaking news above and you’ll finally get to see the greenhouse gas numbers on our two local climate changing refineries that I’ve been demanding for a year now. Councilman Furey pledging his allegiance to fossil fuels, global warming and more CO2. You might be right.

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Traveling Through Time, Exploring the String Theory and Hugging the Giant Sequoias

Creative Greenius

I pulled an old issue of Sierra (the magazine of the Sierra Club) from July/August 1997. There was a nice selection of books, especially guides to the flora and fauna of the High Sierras. We also found magazines ( Utne Reader anyone?) CDs and Blueray DVD movies and documentaries.

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