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California ARB awarding $1.6 million to LA for low-income EV carsharing pilot program

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million to the City of Los Angeles to set up a pilot carsharing program for electric vehicles in disadvantaged communities. The funding for the project comes from fees collected under the state’s climate change law, AB 32. Following a competitive proposal process, the California Air Resources Board (ARB) has offered $1.6

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Four Startups Aim to Change the Climate Tech Game

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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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Greenius Goes All AB 811 Over Green Task Force

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Creative Greenius talks AB 811 Financing to the Green Task Force / photo (c) Debra Bushweit Galliani. I bring a passion that’s driven by my sense of urgency over our climate change crisis. Click Here to Download a PDF copy of my presentation ). But I also bring something more on top of all that. County Solar Map.

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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

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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% by Jack Rosebro. ” [ 1 ].

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The Cat Is Still On The Roof – And The Roof! The Roof! The Roof Is On Fire!

Creative Greenius

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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Power Companies Driving Drunk With Power – If Only PG&E and SCE Didn’t Hate Rooftop Solar So Much We Might Meet Our AB 32 Emission Reductions.

Creative Greenius

Whether it’s my own crappy supplier, Southern California Edison, or Los Angeles’ DWP, or the big bad boys of power up north, PG&E, the ugly solar truth is these utilities make it as difficult and painful as possible for property owners to generate their own solar electricity and practice decentralized generation.

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Solar Powered Greenius Producing Massive South Bay Energy

Creative Greenius

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. SOLAR FINANCING – WHO GETS IT AND WHO DOESN’T. NO PURCHASE!

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