Cars That Think

JANUARY 18, 2023

Anthropogenic climate change confronts humanity with a challenge: How can we keep warm now as we try to prevent our world from overheating in the future? A Small Country with Large Heating Needs Big problems demand big solutions, and there is perhaps no bigger 21st-century problem than climate change.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2010

Alberta, Canada’s Climate Change and Emissions Management (CCMEC) Corporation is awarding more than C$37.5 million) to five Alberta-based renewable energy projects including waste to biofuels and energy, concentrating solar power, biogas and home generation. The initial organizations receiving CCEMC funding are: Enerkem Inc. ,

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2009

Reducing emissions of black carbon soot and ground-level ozone would quickly make a considerable dent in the climate change problem and would also contribute to public health and protect crop yields, according to an essay in the September/October issue of Foreign Affairs. Tags: Climate Change Emissions. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2014

The Global Climate and Energy Project (GCEP) at Stanford University has awarded $10.5 million for seven research projects designed to advance a broad range of renewable energy technologies, including solar cells, batteries, renewable fuels and bioenergy. Novel inorganic-organic perovskites for photovoltaics.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 5, 2014

3Degrees provides renewable energy certificates and carbon offsets to Fortune 500 companies, green building firms, and other organizations. Emission reductions produced by the project are verified by an approved third party and registered with the Climate Action Reserve. SunPower: residential solar with energy storage.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2010

An alliance of industry, academic and government organizations has formed to commercialize technologies that will utilize concentrated solar energy to convert waste CO 2 into synthetic fuels. Sandia began working on research, development and demonstration of solar reforming technologies more than 20 years ago. Source: Sandia.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2020

Atmospheric soot particles as seen under a transmission electron microscope are coated by organic and inorganic materials. Black carbon’s absorption of solar radiation is comparable to that of carbon dioxide. While soot particles are indeed coated in organic materials, that coating is not uniform from particle to particle.

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Plug N Drive

MAY 1, 2024

hydro, nuclear, wind, solar), the transition to electric vehicles will greatly reduce Canada’s climate-changing emissions. Presently, there are well over 700,000 electric and hybrid electric vehicles on Canadian roads and over 70 different EV models available, with more on the way at increasingly affordable prices.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Submissions are currently being accepted from across the globe, both domestic and international organizations and individuals are encouraged to participate. Due to the high level of interest received from participants and government agencies, AFWERX is extending the Reimagining Energy Challenge submission deadline to 29 October 2020.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2019

An annual ' tracking the progress of California Climate Investments, released by the California Air Resources Board and the California Department of Finance, finds that nearly $1.4 billion in new funding last year went to projects across all of California’s 58 counties—almost double the $720 million spent in 2017. To date, $9.3

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Operating as a cross-functional organization covering all the Group’s operations and divisions, it will guide the Group’s overall strategy towards developing low-carbon energy solutions and accelerating their implementation. The Fund will be backed by a US$1.5-billion billion budget and managed, starting in October 2022, by a dedicated team.

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Creative Greenius

APRIL 25, 2010

Personally I haven’t stopped working since I began organizing for 350.org I asked Bill about the work my friends at GRID Alternative are doing and his thoughts on the adoption of rooftop solar in this final segment of my video interview with him. The 2010 focus for 350.org org Bill McKibben Get To Work.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 4, 2023

billion more solar panels. However, there’s a shortage of roboticists tackling climate change, due to a lack of awareness of necessary and urgent applications. The investment data backed this up—according to PitchBook, climate robotics accounts for less than 1 percent of total robotics venture funding over the past five years.

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Creative Greenius

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

And the people who are MY heroes and the ones I consider our greatest patriots today are on the front lines fighting climate change. . But hold them up I do because their work – like the work of the the scientists, activists, organizers, volunteers and other climate hawks I admire, enlightens and inspires me to do the work I do.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2013

General Motors is the first automaker among 40 major US companies to sign a “ Climate Declaration ,” collectively asserting that responding to climate change is good business. The campaign is organized by sustainable business advocacy group Ceres and its Business for Innovative Climate & Energy Policy, or BICEP, coalition.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2019

The study—part of MIT’s five-year Plan for Action on Climate Change—examines how the complex interactions between advanced drivetrain options, alternative fuels, refueling infrastructure, consumer choice, vehicle automation and government policy will shape the future for personal mobility.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

It is an unpalatable truth that unless we can succeed in greatly reducing CO 2 emissions we are headed for a very uncomfortable and challenging climate future, and geoengineering will be the only option left to limit further temperature increases. Professor John Shepherd, chair of the Royal Society’s geoengineering study.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2013

In California, reductions in emissions of black carbon since the late 1980s—mostly from diesel engines as a result of air quality programs—have resulted in a measurable reduction of concentrations of global warming pollutants in the atmosphere, according to a study examining the impact of black carbon on California’s climate.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 19, 2021

The proposal calls for what’s known as “solar geoengineering”: cooling the planet by deflecting sunlight that would otherwise strike the planet. Little is known about how, or whether, solar geoengineering might work and how the particles would react and move in the stratosphere. Concentrations of greenhouse gases are at.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2020

Tropospheric ozone is created when nitrogen oxide, emitted primarily through human activities, reacts with volatile organic compounds in sunlight. As we transition away from fossil fuels in favor of solar and wind energy and electric vehicles, there will be big changes in ozone pollution. Mueller, N.D., Burney, J.A.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Our findings about CO 2 activation will open the door to an incredibly broad range of possibilities: if we can fully understand CO 2 electroreduction, we'll be able to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels, contributing to the mitigation of climate change. —lead author Irina Chernyshova.

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Driivz

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

As the world continues to face climate change challenges, it is becoming increasingly critical that we transition to more sustainable energy sources. Renewable energy, such as solar and wind power, is a more environmentally friendly and cleaner alternative to traditional fossil fuels.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

The leaders of the world have just returned from the UN's latest climate change summit, COP26 , in which the countries that have signed on to the Paris Agreement upped their commitments to fight climate change. IEEE Spectrum : What role does Silver Lining play in climate research or advocacy? In 2015, the U.S.

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Creative Greenius

MARCH 8, 2009

In a deal brokered by the city’s newly commissioned Citizens Environmental Task Force, Exxon/Mobil, owners of the Exxon/Mobil Refinery in the City of Torrance agreed today to fund a bond that will make low cost financing of solar energy systems for home and apartment owners. 2. Green Building & Remodeling.

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Creative Greenius

APRIL 25, 2021

That same year, in my role as founding organizer of climate action group, 350 South Bay Los Angeles, I was able to bring my skills and experience to a wider community and make the case for our need to switch to 100% fossil free transportation to stave off the impending climate crisis. kW solar PV system on our own house in 2015.

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Cars That Think

JULY 5, 2023

Better air conditioners, in a technical sense, really only affect the last link in a long, climate-harming supply chain. In other words, an incremental efficiency improvement in heating will have a much bigger overall impact on energy demand and therefore climate change. Still, in the U.S.,

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Cars That Think

APRIL 20, 2023

Climate change is a problem for communities around the world. According to the Natural Resources Defense Council , climate change contributes to severe weather events such as hurricanes, flooding, and tornadoes, as well as long-term drought and regularly occurring heat events in traditionally moderate climate zones.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

This approach will make it easier to identify sectors for which emission reductions will be most beneficial for climate and those which may produce unintended consequences.”. The team also considered how emissions from each part of the economy can impact clouds, which have an indirect effect on climate. Nadine Unger. Unger et al.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 14, 2019

Changes in emissions by Scoping Plan sector between 2000 and 2017. Emissions are organized by the categories in the AB 32 Scoping Plan. In-State Hydro, Solar, and Wind Electricity Generation. Compared to 2016, California’s GDP grew 3.6% while the carbon intensity of its economy declined by 4.5%. Source: ARB.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2018

However, soot does not only have a negative effect on human health, it also contributes to global warming by absorbing solar radiation. According to the latest report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), there are still major uncertainties regarding the quantities and distribution of soot in the atmosphere.

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EV Match

APRIL 14, 2022

From the organizers : Project Green Home’s curbside charger has officially given away 200,000 miles of free EV charging! From the organizers: Join Ride and Drive Clean (rideandriveclean.org) to view EVs and Ebikes, meet owners, ask questions — live and in person! Date : Saturday, April 16. Time : Noon – 3 PM (PDT).

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Creative Greenius

OCTOBER 18, 2013

And so it is that I resigned from my position as Director of Strategic Partnerships and Public Affairs for CBS EcoMedia effective the first of this month and I will now be devoting my full time to working on climate change response with the South Bay 350 Climate Action Group, the South Bay Bicycle Coalition and 350.org.

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CleanTechnica EVs

APRIL 15, 2024

Under the auspices of the India Smart Grid Forum, the think tank founded as an umbrella organization over India’s 28 state utilities to provide thought leadership, share leading practices, and bring international insights to India, I’m delivering bi-weekly webinars framed by the Short List of Climate Actions That Will Work.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Concurrently, rising sea levels caused by climate change will swamp many coastal cities throughout the world, forcing them to rebuild parts of themselves on higher ground. Other techniques are changing what we can expect buildings to look like. This is literally green technology.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 26, 2023

Simple, effective solutions that can help lessen the impact of climate change already exist. That’s according to 2023 IEEE President Saifur Rahman , who was among the speakers from engineering organizations at the COP27 event held in Egypt in November. We don’t have enough solar energy and wind energy.”

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

This new renewable energy goal, along with the pursuit of electrified vehicles and efficient manufacturing, is part of the company’s overall approach to strengthening its business, improving communities and addressing climate change. megawatt solar array powers 1.5% This is GM’s first large-scale solar installation in China.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2010

However, the two conclude in their review, substantial advances in catalyst, electrolyte, and reactor design are needed to enable CO 2 utilization via electrochemical conversion a technology that can help address climate change and shift society to renewable energy sources. Credit; ACS, Whipple and Kenis. Click to enlarge.

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