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CicLaVia is Back This Sunday & We’ll Be Rolling Against Coal!

Creative Greenius

My favorite part of this next CicLaVia is t he Bike Parade coming from my friends at Greenpeace and Sierra Club which they’re calling ROLL AGAINST COAL. In case you didn’t know, the City of Los Angeles still gets 40% of its electricity from coal-fired power plants, the dirtiest polluters and greenhouse gassers on the planet.

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California Energy Commission approves $8M grant for H2 fueling station at Port of Long Beach

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The statute authorizes the California Energy Commission to develop and deploy alternative and renewable fuels and advanced transportation technologies to help attain the state’s climate change policies. The natural gas energy procured will replace electricity procured from a coal fired plant.

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CicLaVia is Back This Sunday & We’ll Be Rolling Against Coal!

Creative Greenius

My favorite part of this next CicLaVia is t he Bike Parade coming from my friends at Greenpeace and Sierra Club which they’re calling ROLL AGAINST COAL. In case you didn’t know, the City of Los Angeles still gets 40% of its electricity from coal-fired power plants, the dirtiest polluters and greenhouse gassers on the planet.

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Serving My Country – My Patriotic Duty

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And the people who are MY heroes and the ones I consider our greatest patriots today are on the front lines fighting climate change. . October 24, 2009 South Bay Los Angeles Climate Action, Manhattan Beach.

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Arizona State Students Develop a Solar-Powered Air Filtration System

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To improve air quality, burning unrefined coal for heat was banned. Warudkar is an associate aeroelasticity engineer at Virgin Galactic , in Los Angeles. When people are at home watching a documentary about how climate change affects the world, they often say, ‘Oh man, that sucks, but I can’t do anything about it.’

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CMU policy briefs outline benefits and potential for adoption of electrified vehicles in the US

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To achieve the best outcomes, the brief suggests, plug-in vehicle adoption should typically be focused on HEVs and PHEVs by city drivers in mild-climate regions with a clean electricity grid, such as San Francisco or Los Angeles. Further, drivers should not be encouraged to charge at night in coal-heavy regions.

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Greenpeace CSI – On the Scene of a Climate Crime Spree!

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I’ve met and worked with some terrific people through Greenpeace Los Angeles and most of them were there last night. Tension mounted as the negotiator and activists attempted to convince the Chamber to “put down the coal, step away from the climate talks, and set the world free.”.

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