Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2011

Billions of tons of carbon trapped in high-latitude permafrost may be released into the atmosphere by the end of this century as the Earth’s climate changes, further accelerating global warming, a new computer modeling study indicates. The control simulation on the left did not include permafrost processes.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 14, 2017

The study, from the University of Washington, the University of California Santa Barbara and federal scientists, is published in Nature Climate Change. The idea that natural or internal variability has contributed substantially to the Arctic sea ice loss is not entirely new.

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Creative Greenius

MARCH 12, 2010

campaign citizen volunteer climate change energy efficiency environment environmental legislation fossil fuels green building green education green jobs plug-in cars politics recycling renewable energy sea-level rise solar power 350.org You say you’d like to see that presentation? Here it is as presented to the Green Task Force.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Developing technology to address the causes of climate change, mitigate its impact, and adapt to the crisis is one of IEEE’s top priorities. To assist with that effort, the IEEE Young Professionals group this year launched its Climate and Sustainability Task Force. On 12 September, CSTF and IRENA presented a Youth Day event.

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Creative Greenius

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

We began sharing our ideas with the Mayor in early January and it was obvious he was not just open to listening, but wanted to actively engage with us. He encouraged us to develop our ideas into steps the City could take action on. He also confirmed his support for a 350 CO2 target.

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Creative Greenius

MAY 23, 2010

The smartest scientists on the face of the planet, the ones studying climate change and global warming, are mad as hell and they’re not going to take it any more. Rising concentrations of carbon dioxide are making the oceans more acidic. But we’re going to keep fighting and keep working anyway.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Since its launch in April 2021 , the Engineering Research Visioning Alliance has convened a diverse set of experts to explore three areas in which fundamental research could have the most impact: climate change; the nexus of biology and engineering; and securing critical infrastructure against hackers.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2020

Since then, LTD hired a Sustainability Program Manager and conducted carbon footprint analysis of its operations to measure the impacts and benefits of public transit on climate change. Since 2004, NFI has delivered 50 buses to LTD, including New Flyer transit buses and low-floor cutaway buses from NFI sister company ARBOC.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 17, 2019

The idea of bringing back the Hummer brand is on the table at General Motors.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 5, 2011

Solar radiation management (SRM) is one of the geoengineering techniques proposed as a potential means of offsetting some of the anthropogenic radiative forcing of climate as a means to reduce climate change. Earlier post.) However, the effectiveness and associated risks of SRM are uncertain.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 30, 2020

Is it a good idea to market an efficiency-focused car around oil dependence when national-average gas prices are headed toward $2.00 A video recently last Tuesday by Aptera takes exactly that angle—introducing the company’s electric three-wheeler in light of international conflict and climate change, as related to the oil.

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Creative Greenius

AUGUST 20, 2010

It’s been a rewarding and exhilarating 34 weeks since I first sat down with DiVirgilio, Dency Nelson and Robert Fortunato at the Planet Earth Café to propose that Hermosa Beach become the first municipality in Southern California to go carbon neutral and rebrand itself as the “Green Idea City.&#.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2020

As we have pointed above, ENI has the most ambitious climate change pledge with plans to lower its greenhouse gas emissions by 80% by 2050. Saft has already gained considerable traction after generating $100 million in free cash flow for its parent company in 2019. #3

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Creative Greenius

OCTOBER 14, 2010

There’s no reason Hermosa Beach can’t follow that same sharrow story of success and indeed if Hermosa really wants to be taken seriously as a “Green Idea City&# or wants to actually achieve carbon neutrality it’s going to need sharrows and a lot more bicycle infrastructure and friendliness to get there.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2009

Our results suggest that gas-aerosol interactions play an important role in methane’s GWP, and hence our larger value would allow better optimization of climate change mitigation policies. Methane’s GWP may also change with time as air quality regulations alter the background state of tropospheric chemistry. Shindell et al.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

Without a change in current transport development patterns in Asia, global carbon dioxide emissions and fuel prices will keep rising, with consequences for climate change, energy security, and economic growth. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

Powerful lobbyists have tried to undermine the whole idea of petrol taxes, claiming that the effects are too hard on the poor. Sterner is lead author in the UN climate panel’s (IPCC) working group Mitigation of Climate Change. The reason why the global climate negotiations are so slow has to do with global justice.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 6, 2011

The PGRP encourages new, innovative ideas in the form of basic research and tool development projects that will advance the whole field of plant biology and accelerate basic discovery and innovation in economically important crop plants to meet societal needs.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Mayors from more than 30 major cities including Paris, Tokyo, Barcelona, Cape Town and Quito met over the weekend with senior executives of some of the world’s largest companies, including Mastercard, Siemens and Volvo Bus Corporation in order to define solutions to the threats posed by climate change.

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Creative Greenius

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

The Green Idea City movement has been slowly building since the Hermosa Beach City Council embraced it at its January goal-setting workshop, as then-Mayor Michael DiVirgilio outlined in his March article in the Daily Breeze. Read the rest of the story on Hermosa Beach Patch.com.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 28, 2023

The round included participation from one of North America’s largest commercial fleets, Chevron Renewable Energy Group, and Pittsburgh regional investors including: Idea Foundry, Inc., ​ Optimus Technologies recently announced a $17.8-million million Series A funding round led by Mitsui & Co. out of Tokyo, Japan.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2011

Climate change is partly a technical problem, in that it has well defined quantitative dimensions. underlying the technical problem means that climate change is more profoundly an adaptive. challenge, requiring changes in attitude, values and behavior on an unprecedented scale. Yet the human dimension.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2012

California will be developing an investment plan for the auction proceeds from the cap-and-trade program to reduce greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change. The public is invited to share ideas on either or both of. The meeting will be held 24 May, from 1:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.

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Electrek

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

The oil and gas industry is banking on carbon capture as its “fix” for climate change. The IEA’s new report dispels that idea and offers real solutions. more… The post Large amounts of carbon capture as a solution is an ‘illusion’ – IEA appeared first on Electrek.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Support for geoengineering is spread across the political spectrum and is linked to support for science concern about climate change. The researchers hypothesized that seeing climate change as an important issue, and its causes anthropogenic, would be an obvious predictor of support. Resources.

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Green Energy Consumers

MARCH 10, 2022

That’s an awful idea and political pandering at its worst. Some politicians in Massachusetts and Rhode Island are calling on their state governments to reduce or eliminate the gas tax in response to rising prices since Russia invaded Ukraine a couple weeks ago.

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Creative Greenius

DECEMBER 1, 2013

“I still have no idea what you’re talking about.” Filed under: citizen volunteer , climate change , Community Activists , environment , fossil fuels , plug-in cars , solar power Tagged: chevron , EV , Exxon , Hermosa Beach , Manhattan Beach , Redondo Beach , solar power , South Bay. ” I pleaded.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Anyone who has followed the public dialogue on such topics as evolution, stem cell research, or climate change knows how daunting effective science communication can be. Discussions over science are often freighted with cultural, political, and moral perspectives, making the task of communicating scientific ideas even more challenging.

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Creative Greenius

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

In a year when there was hardly anything on the national environmental scene to be thankful for (and frankly plenty to flat out freak out over ) it’s been the right time to think globally and act locally, especially if that locality happens to be Hermosa Beach where you have green champions such as: READ THE REST OF THE STORY ON HERMOSA BEACH (..)

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2011

While many over time have grown dismissive of radical new engine ideas, remember that they have the opportunity to change the dynamic.we Sophisticated adaptive control schemes and new sensor technologies will be critical. should not discount novel engine designs. —Byron Bunker. non-petroleum-based—for transportation.

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Creative Greenius

DECEMBER 21, 2009

Added to the list are impressive grassroots efforts like the South Bay Climate Action Group and business community innovations like Balqon’s all electric heavy duty trucks and LEDtronics’ high efficiency lighting. Harman with South Bay community leaders outside the Green Idea House home site of Robert and Monica Fortunato.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

The DOE, on behalf of the Air Force, is seeking information and ideas to help in establishing content in a FOA that would solicit for the most promising research and development projects on advanced concepts for and/or unit operations within a CTL fuels plant. Aviation Climate Change Coal-to-Liquids (CTL) Emissions Fuels'

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

For its part, Nissan will support the certification process ensuring that Nissan LEAF and Endesa’s Quick Charge device are compatible and the Japanese car maker will share energy supply knowledge and ideas learned during the development of the Nissan LEAF and other EV projects with Endesa.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The idea was to create paint that would reflect sunlight away from a building. An infrared camera (right panel) shows how a sample of the whitest white paint (the dark purple square in the middle) actually cools the board below ambient temperature, something that not even commercial “heat rejecting” paints do.

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CleanTechnica EVs

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Almost every time we broached the idea of driving our 2019 Kona EV across Canada, we got these responses in return. You’re really worried about climate change, and you. “Wow, we’d never try that!” “What are you going to do if you get stranded?” Except once.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2018

Prof Dabo Guan, professor of climate change economics at the University of East Anglia (UEA), led the research, along with Dr Yuli Shan from UEA’s School of International Development. Everything practical that you would need to do to reduce emissions happens at a city level. 6, eaaq0390 doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aaq0390.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 25, 2011

Greenhouse Gas Targets : ARB shares responsibility for California’s climate change goals, which include development and implementation of a plan to reduce California’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to 1990 levels by 2020 as well as aligning the State with a 2050 goal of 80% emissions reductions relative to a 1990 baseline.

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