Creative Greenius

MAY 31, 2009

I bring a passion that’s driven by my sense of urgency over our climate change crisis. Mark Greninger, the Geographic Information Officer for Los Angeles County got me very excited with his presentation following mine because he’s the guy responsible for the new, knock-your-socks off L.A. County Solar Map.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

At issue is the 2012 expiration of the Kyoto Protocol, a binding but effectively unenforceable 1997 treaty that had set greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction targets for 40 industrialized countries, referred to as Annex 1 countries, yielding an average GHG reduction of 5.2% Climate Change And The IPCC Fourth Assessment Report.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 2, 2013

The Scoping Plan describes the comprehensive range of efforts California must take to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020 and meet the state’s long-term goals to combat climate change. The topic areas were chosen based on their ability to address concerns that underlie all sectors of the economy.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2023

In addition to helping the nation meet ambitious carbon-neutral goals, the development and implementation of the proposed technology can help reduce the cost of and emissions from hydrogen production to mitigate the effects of climate change while creating new jobs and revitalizing our economy.

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Creative Greenius

DECEMBER 8, 2008

For more than a year now in this blog I’ve been researching and reporting on climate change, energy and transportation issues and related environmental stories covering them on both a personal and a global perspective. First off you might be surprised that our cities have Climate Action Plans, but don’t be.

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Plug In Partners

JUNE 27, 2006

They join Founding Members from these cities: Arlington, TX, Baltimore, Boulder, Dallas, Denver, Fort Worth, Irvine, CA, Los Angeles, Memphis, Philadelphia, Seattle, San Francisco, and Wenatchee, WA. New partners in recent months include: Denton, TX., Keene, N.H., Madison, Phoenix, Sacramento, Santa Ana, CA., Santa Barbara, CA.,

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Creative Greenius

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Worried about your finances and the crash of the economy? 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. That ain’t nothing compared to what’s on tap for you next.

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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. But they’re not a slam dunk in today’s economy. NO PURCHASE!

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 7, 2023

economy away from dependence on fossil fuels like petroleum, coal and natural gas to 100 percent carbon-free electricity by 2035. Implementing an EV national policy that aims to transform the economy is an exercise in mind-boggling complexity. Nichols projected on the screen, in Los Angeles Thursday, Jan.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

And at the headquarters of Pacific Gas and Electric, utility executives are preparing “heat maps” of neighborhoods that they fear may overload the power grid in their exuberance for electric cars.&#. Here’s the full text of the entire article, in case the link goes bad: [link]. & E. “We They cost drivers on average only 2.5

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

You lose the flexibility of the hybrid being able to fuel up nearly instantaneously at a gas station, and pay an additional $10k for that loss. people’s desire for electric over gas cars 2. Of course people want gas cars — they don’t know where to get any other fuel. — Dan 3. — Ken Smith 4.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra today, with Governor Gavin Newsom and the California Air Resources Board, led a coalition of 24 state attorneys general and the cities of Los Angeles and New York in filing a lawsuit against the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). Earlier post.).

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

The vision is fuelled by the fear of climate change and the need to find green alternatives to dirty coal, unpopular nuclear power and unreliable gas imports from Russia. Every scrap of waste food, garden trimmings and even sewage would be used to ferment gas. “There’s a relationship of trust already.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

The XHT is a new generation of plug-in hybrid drive train ready to multiply the gas mileage of any SUV or any standard sedan." ( Company PressRelease ) BYD Auto top 2/3/08 BYD Auto Co., In that case, you might never burn a drop of gas during the life of the car.". By partnering with these two industries. Red Herring ).

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Creative Greenius

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Today, here in the South Bay of Los Angeles where I live, we have all the dots you’d ever need to connect the crisis level of global warming to the urgent action needed locally. If we continue our head-in-the-sand, business as usual path, we are headed straight for runaway, uncontrollable destruction of our livable climate.

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Creative Greenius

JULY 25, 2009

Looking at that on the local level, here in Los Angeles County, we’ve got 3,400,000 existing housing units for our 10 million people. The economies of scale offered by the County make the benefits of mutual coordination a no brainer. That means doing an energy retrofit on all of our 13.2 million existing housing units. (75%

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Next post States’ Proposals for Gas Taxes Sputter 11 Comments 1. April 16, 2009 3:28 pm Link Jared - that’s a one time emission and certainly better than what would come out of a gas powered car over its lifetime. Treehugger More Videos of the Tesla Model S Electric Car In Action Whats This? — Jeff U 6.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Last week, at the Model S unveiling in Los Angeles, Tesla revealed that an optional “ QuickCharg e &# battery would get a full charge in 45 minutes from a 480V outlet. With our current economy, I guess it’s no longer a secret that politicians and executives running our country are not very good at simple math.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2017

If accompanied by aggressive efforts to get drivers out of their cars, compact growth programs could reduce auto-based 2030 CO 2 emissions by as much as 25% over and above any emissions reductions attributable to higher fuel economy standards. The CPP is intended to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from power plants.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Ive found it facinating how car commercials changed the main MPG number they promoted before gas went over $4 a gallon as city miles. based technology will actually achieve any economy in production. It was a Manufacturing Failure, as GM NEVER planned to build the car in Volume, so No Economies of Scale were ever achieved.

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Creative Greenius

JANUARY 30, 2010

Here on the local scene in the South Bay of Los Angeles our local elected officials are doing their homework, understand the tipping point we now stand upon and are acting to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions by completing their carbon inventories and creating Climate Action Plans to get us to the safe zone of 350 ppm of CO2.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 14, 2009

But in a year that has seen both a worsening recession and state budget crisis, residents’ support for urgent action on climate change has slipped and a partisan divide on the issue has widened. Most residents (66%) support the 2006 California law (AB 32) that requires greenhouse gas emissions to be reduced to 1990 levels by 2020.

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EV Match

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Ironically, Governor Abbott targeted renewable energy just as The New York Times was writing that Texas’ grid trouble is a sign of disruption to come as climate change induces more and more extreme weather events. Frozen natural gas pipes in Texas. Credit: Los Angeles Times. Credit: The Texas Tribune.

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