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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

Cars That Think

During the 1990s, Brooks formed a team at AeroVironment that provided support for GM’s EV programs until he too tired of the corporate routine and joined ACP in 1999. He recruited Rippel and Cocconi for both jobs. Before cofounding AC Propulsion, Alan Cocconi worked on Sunraycer, a solar-powered car for GM.

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What Does Henry Waxman Know About Climate That Made Him Quit?

Creative Greenius

And that absence of hope comes from a career in DC and being able to smell the crazy juice being guzzled down by the corporate right and their shameless suckups and sycophants. . Congressman Henry Waxman receiving environmental award at 2013 Earth Day Celebration, Manhattan Beach (c) Joe Galliani. Fair enough, Henry. Go in peace.

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Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Cleantech Blog Cleantechblog.com, the premier cleantech site for commentary on news and technology relating to clean tech, greentech, energy, climate change and carbon, and the environment. Ontological Shock An Open Letter to Fred Krupp Report from GridEcon Conference SGS Climate Change Head on the First Carbon Credit.

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World Earth Day & The Green Reset

My Energi

Step away from them screens for a few hours and get your creative juices flowing! Choosing to support your local business keeps wealth circulating in your area instead of going to far-away corporations or retail giants. Upcycle and recycling projects. trillion fish from ocean every year.

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Perspective: Why Carbon Emissions Should Not Have Been the Focus of the UN Climate Change Summit and Why the 15th Conference of the Parties Should Have Focused on Technology Transfer

Green Car Congress

Oceans, already expanding from warmth and melting glaciers, would rise, increasing coastal flooding; a chain reaction of climate changes is projected to lead to harsher, more widespread droughts and more powerful storms. Reductions in Emissions. Lomborg says.

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Opinion: Stop Subsidizing Electric Vehicle Programs

The Truth About Cars

Your author would argue that the juice simply isn’t worth the squeeze. That’s according to the latest data from the Texas Public Policy Foundation , which is skeptical of climate change and has a vested interest in pointing out faults that might make Democrat politicians look like they’re doing a poor job.