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@MayorOfLA Is Ready! Garcetti Comes Out Gunning For Gas – Scattergood, Haynes & Harbor Power Plants To Stop Shoving Pollution Down Citizens Throats, Calls For Shutdown Of Aliso Canyon. #MerchantsOfDoubt In Fossil Fuel Industry Argue For More Climate Destruction

Creative Greenius

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

At 9am on Tuesday morning this week I stood with Los Angeles Mayor, Eric Garcetti, members of the L.A. City Council, board members of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power Commission and long term colleagues from the climate justice action community to be part of a historic announcement.

Los Angeles

Los Angeles Chevron Climate Pollution

Arizona State Students Develop a Solar-Powered Air Filtration System

Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The Project Koyash team at ASU designed a solar-powered air-filtration system that autonomously cleans polluted air in less than an hour. Warudkar is an associate aeroelasticity engineer at Virgin Galactic , in Los Angeles. The system includes a solar panel, a battery, an Arduino microcontroller, an inverter, and a filter.

Arizona

Arizona Solar Power Powered

Four Startups Aim to Change the Climate Tech Game

Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

Starting a company to develop an energy technology that fights climate change is hard—a lot harder than starting a software company. The good news is that entrepreneurs are stepping up to the plate. But the opportunities are huge. Do they know how to meet [these] commitments? Not really.” This is a hard problem,” Majumdar continued.

Climate

Climate Hydrogen Los Angeles Climate Change

NFI deploys 50 electric semi trucks and a 38-port charging depot in SoCal

Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Today’s 38-port charger project is located in Ontario, near Los Angeles and home to many warehouses and logistics operations to service the nearby ports. These goods then move on drayage trucks between the ports and California’s Inland Empire, the valley just east of Los Angeles.

Los Angeles

Los Angeles Long Beach Charging Pollution

Michael Jackson Comes Back From Dead to Blast L.A. Times Climate Change Coverage

Creative Greenius

JULY 6, 2009

Michael Jackson, the King of Pop, returned from the great hereafter this morning to condemn the Los Angeles Times for being a cause of global warming and then covering it up in the newspaper he mocked as, Already more lifeless and brain dead then I am now! Even my sister Latoya knows better than that!

Climate Change

Climate Change Climate Los Angeles Solar

Los Angeles Community Choice Power Launches Without Community Involvement & Lacking Professional Branding & Marketing #JoeTakesOnTheNews

Creative Greenius

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles Market Power Powered

Old EV batteries are being reused as energy storage devices in CA

Teslarati

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

A response to these concerns is currently being demonstrated in California by B2U Storage Solutions Inc, a Los Angeles-based startup that’s using second-hand EV batteries as energy storage systems that can support the grid. B2U noted that its use of old EV batteries can significantly lower the cost of carbon-free energy storage.

Energy Storage

Energy Storage Energy Batteries Battery

@LATimes Buries Climate News In Saturday Edition Even Publisher @DrPatSoonShiong Doesn’t Read #JoeTakesOnTheNews

Creative Greenius

APRIL 1, 2019

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Climate

Climate Los Angeles Climate Change Environment

Cisco DeVries’ AB 811 Baby Goes Nationwide: President Clinton Backs USA PACE Bond Program

Creative Greenius

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

I welcome this great news of a national program and joyfully congratulate Cisco DeVries. He’s now getting to see what started as an innovative way for his family to afford solar panels, spread out nationally like that proverbial ripple generated by that solitary pebble. Big props to each of them as well!

USA

USA Los Angeles New York City Financing

@LATimes How Bad Does The Climate Crisis Have To Get Before @DrPatSoonShiong Hires A Climate Change Editor?

Creative Greenius

NOVEMBER 17, 2018

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Climate Change

Climate Change Climate Los Angeles Renewable

The View From Here Today

Creative Greenius

AUGUST 31, 2009

I contributed the following to the World Wildlife Climate Witness site last week and it was published this morning. So not only is climate change-driven drought cutting our fresh water supply, but the way we use water here also adds to our greenhouse gas emissions. That’s about a 25% reduction.

Climate Change

Climate Change Los Angeles Climate Water

@LATimes Fails To Connect The Climate Crisis Dots Or Mention Dire Climate Warnings In Story On Dirty Coal-Powered LADWP #JoeTakesOnTheNews

Creative Greenius

DECEMBER 20, 2018

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Climate

Climate Coal Connect Connected

@LaTimes Greenwashes Climate Crisis & Threat To Readers By Claiming Surrender Is “War On Climate” As Los Angelenos Choke On Nation’s Worst Air Pollution #JoeTakesOnTheNews

Creative Greenius

APRIL 28, 2019

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Climate

Climate Pollution Los Angeles Climate Change

@DrPatSoonShiong – When Are YOU and @LATimes Going To Wake Up & Smell The Climate Emergency Burning? #JoeTakesOnTheNews

Creative Greenius

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

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Climate

Climate Los Angeles Climate Change Environment

@LATimes #NEWSFAIL in DC as Takeover Of Pelosi Office & Demands For Climate Action Ignored By Paper With No Climate Editor or Reporters #JoeTakesOnTheNews

Creative Greenius

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

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Climate

Climate DC Los Angeles Climate Change

@LATimes Snooze-Worthy Story About Studio Opportunavores Cashing In Ignores Climate Reality Again #JoeTakesOnTheNews

Creative Greenius

MARCH 24, 2019

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Climate

Climate Los Angeles Climate Change Building

Greenius On The Green Scene - The South Bay Report

Creative Greenius

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

Today they both drive electric cars powered from the charge generated via their rooftop solar panels. Today, I think a new TV series called “ Living With Dency &# has the potential to be an even bigger hit than “ Living With Ed “ has been.

Green

Green Los Angeles Solar Light

@LATimes Treats Saudi Terrorists Like Successful Business, But Homeland Security Calls For Climate Action #JoeTakesOnTheNews

Creative Greenius

APRIL 2, 2019

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Climate

Climate Los Angeles Climate Change Renewable

El Segundo’s @LATimes Forced To Cover Climate Crisis When Politicians Shove It Up Their To-Do List #JoeTakesOnTheNews

Creative Greenius

APRIL 30, 2019

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Climate

Climate Los Angeles Climate Change Building

@Sammy_Roth And @LATimes Cover Buffet Company Plan To Destroy Climate For Profit #JoeTakesOnTheNews Tells You What You Should Do About It

Creative Greenius

DECEMBER 29, 2018

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Climate

Climate Companies Los Angeles Climate Change

@LATimes I Added The News Readers Need That You Left Out Again #ConnectTheDots #joetakesonthenews

Creative Greenius

DECEMBER 29, 2018

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles Climate Change Coal Renewable

Breaking News Too Late For @LATimes Print Edition Radically Changes LAX Expansion Story #JoeTakesOnTheNews

Creative Greenius

APRIL 6, 2019

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles Climate Change Building Renewable

#FailedJournalism In @LATimes Front Page Story About Traffic On Another Planet Where They Aren’t In A Climate Crisis With 10 Years To Change Everything #JoeTakesOnTheNews

Creative Greenius

MARCH 28, 2019

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Climate

Climate Los Angeles Climate Change Environment

El Segundo’s @LATimes In Bed With Chevron Oil To Cover Up Oil Industry’s Deliberate Criminal Destruction Of Climate. Clueless Reporters See Nothing. Enjoy Today’s Food Section Ads #JoeTakesOnTheNews

Creative Greenius

MAY 16, 2019

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Chevron

Chevron Oil Climate Los Angeles

Clueless El Segundo Newspaper @LATimes Continues To Ballwash Oil Industry By Deleting #ClimateEmergency From PR Piece For Chevron. @DrPatSoonShiong Desperately Needs A Climate Change Editor #JoeTakesOnTheNews

Creative Greenius

APRIL 13, 2019

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Climate Change

Climate Change Chevron Climate Industrial

BREAKING NEWS: Hermosa Beach To Become Carbon Neutral City! Acting Locally, Thinking Globally

Creative Greenius

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

Ever since the Copenhagen climate treaty talks ended in impotence two months ago there hasn’t been a single ounce of positive news on the international scene about our chances of cutting the world’s greenhouse gas emissions and getting CO2 levels back down to the safe 350 ppm zone. Our small size becomes an advantage.

Los Angeles

Los Angeles Carbon Global IDEA

@LATimes Passes On Covering Earth Day. Publisher Says, “We Can’t Monetize The Climate Crisis So I Urge Readers Not To Worry About It And Just Attend The LA Times Food Bowl & Buy Tickets To My E-Sports Venture.”

Creative Greenius

APRIL 22, 2019

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Climate

Climate Buy Los Angeles Climate Change

News: 2023 Fisker Ocean Introduced

Clean Fleet Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The production-ready 2023 Fisker Ocean debuted at the 2021 Los Angeles Auto Show to an interested group of industry insiders and journalists. Henrik Fisker revealed his plans to shake-up the electric SUV category with the all-new, all-electric Ocean. A solar boost from the roof. News: 2023 Nissan Ariya.

Fisker

Fisker Aston Martin SUV All-Electric

Solar Powered Greenius Producing Massive South Bay Energy

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. SOLAR FINANCING – WHO GETS IT AND WHO DOESN’T. Most have no idea.

Solar

Solar Energy Power Powered

Honda launches first plug-in hydrogen fuel cell EV

Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

million to support building additional hydrogen stations with FirstElement Fuel, reports Automotive News. To compare, the standard CR-V with a front-wheel drivetrain and 2-liter hybrid engine has an estimated range of 43 mpg in the city, 36 on freeways, and 40 combined, according to Automotive News. Get started here.

Honda

Honda Hydrogen Plug-in Plug

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

MARCH 4, 2010

It lifts the current “cap&# on rooftop solar from the crappy 2.5% The cap has to do with what percent of rooftop solar customers get to participate in the “net metering&# program that actually gives them credit for the solar power they produce and feed back into the grid. to a BFD level of 5%. No you do not.

Solar

Solar Power Powered Climate Change

Honda May Develop Plug-In as Obama Alters U.S. Policy (Update2) - Bloomberg.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 30, 2009

Honda, which began leasing hydrogen fuel cell FCX Claritysedans in Los Angeles last year, still sees hydrogen as the bestlong-term alternative to gasoline as a fuel that can cut carbonexhaust tied to global warming, President Takeo Fukui said in aninterview. the only companyselling hydrogen-powered cars to U.S.

Obama

Obama Honda Plug-in Plug

Inside The Green Task Force

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.

Green

Green Climate Change Climate Los Angeles

Greenius Drinks L.A. Times’ Milkshake On Global Warming

Creative Greenius

FEBRUARY 28, 2009

“ But some scientists say that weaning the world off coal is crucial to slowing the devastating effects of climate change. “ Really, Los Angeles Times? It sounds like the Los Angeles Times is telling us there is still a viable debate on this subject. “ Some Scientists?&# That’s your report?

Los Angeles

Los Angeles Global Coal Climate Change

Headless Body In Topless Bar

Creative Greenius

JANUARY 15, 2009

Growing up in Brooklyn, New York, I read the New York Daily News after my parents were done reading it. And that’s exactly the way I’m feeling about the Los Angeles Times this week after reading two separate articles in the space of four days claiming that solar panels may do more harm than good.

Los Angeles

Los Angeles New York Climate Change New Jersey

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

Creative Greenius

OCTOBER 15, 2009

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. For the past three months I’ve been working night and day as the Chairman of the South Bay Los Angeles 350 Climate Action Group. The truth is George W.

Climate Change

Climate Change Climate 2008 Carbon

Irresponsible Pro Fossil Fuel Pimping By @Chevron Favorite El Segundo Newspaper @LATimes #JoeTakesOnTheNews

Creative Greenius

JUNE 30, 2019

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Chevron

Chevron Fuel Los Angeles Climate Change

@LATimes Becomes Least Credible Newspaper On ClimateCrisis In USA As Chevron Toxic Fumes Incapacitate Editors & Journalists. No Hope For Recovery Seen #JoeTakesOnTheNews

Creative Greenius

MAY 7, 2019

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Chevron

Chevron USA Los Angeles Climate Change

We Are ALL Tongan

Creative Greenius

AUGUST 17, 2009

Tonga has sadly been in the news lately after an inter-island ferry sank on August 5 drowning over 70 people. When I first met Elizabeth I had no idea that there were so many Tongan Americans living in large communities in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Salt Lake City, Dallas and other cities across the USA. Mine too of course.

Tonga

Tonga Climate Change San Francisco Climate

@LATimes Continues To Suck The Big One On #ClimateEmergency Reporting As Staff Be Tripping On Jet Fumes & Chevron Flaring #JoeTakesOnTheNews

Creative Greenius

APRIL 26, 2019

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Chevron

Chevron Los Angeles Climate Change Global

Comprehensive @Sammy_Roth Piece In Today’s @LATimes On Obscene @SCE Money Grab For Guaranteed 17% Profit Leaves Out Obvious & Best Solution For Public #JoeTakesOnTheNews

Creative Greenius

APRIL 21, 2019

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles Climate Change Renewable Climate

@LATimes Thanks For Hiring @Sammy_Roth To Cover Energy & Community Choice Power! Now Tell Us Why The Majority Of Eligible Cities Said NO To Choice & Cleaner Power #JoeTakesOnTheNews

Creative Greenius

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

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Cleaner

Cleaner Power Powered Energy

@LATimes Asks The Wrong Question For The #ClimateCrisis They Still Don’t Report On Or Grok ##JoeTakesOnTheNews

Creative Greenius

MARCH 28, 2019

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles Climate Change Plug-in Renewable

@LATimes Continues To Suck At Covering #ClimateEmergency As Focus On Journalism Ends & Publisher @DrPatSoonShiong Looks To E-Sports Future For Failed Newspaper As Reporters Weep #JoeTakesOnTheNews

Creative Greenius

MARCH 27, 2019

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Future

Future Los Angeles Climate Change Climate

@MayorOfLA Is Ready! Garcetti Comes Out Gunning For Gas – Scattergood, Haynes & Harbor Power Plants To Stop Shoving Pollution Down Citizens Throats, Calls For Shutdown Of Aliso Canyon. #MerchantsOfDoubt In Fossil Fuel Industry Argue For More Climate Destruction

Arizona State Students Develop a Solar-Powered Air Filtration System

Four Startups Aim to Change the Climate Tech Game

NFI deploys 50 electric semi trucks and a 38-port charging depot in SoCal

Michael Jackson Comes Back From Dead to Blast L.A. Times Climate Change Coverage

Los Angeles Community Choice Power Launches Without Community Involvement & Lacking Professional Branding & Marketing #JoeTakesOnTheNews

Old EV batteries are being reused as energy storage devices in CA

@LATimes Buries Climate News In Saturday Edition Even Publisher @DrPatSoonShiong Doesn’t Read #JoeTakesOnTheNews

Cisco DeVries’ AB 811 Baby Goes Nationwide: President Clinton Backs USA PACE Bond Program

@LATimes How Bad Does The Climate Crisis Have To Get Before @DrPatSoonShiong Hires A Climate Change Editor?

The View From Here Today

@LATimes Fails To Connect The Climate Crisis Dots Or Mention Dire Climate Warnings In Story On Dirty Coal-Powered LADWP #JoeTakesOnTheNews

@LaTimes Greenwashes Climate Crisis & Threat To Readers By Claiming Surrender Is “War On Climate” As Los Angelenos Choke On Nation’s Worst Air Pollution #JoeTakesOnTheNews

@DrPatSoonShiong – When Are YOU and @LATimes Going To Wake Up & Smell The Climate Emergency Burning? #JoeTakesOnTheNews

@LATimes #NEWSFAIL in DC as Takeover Of Pelosi Office & Demands For Climate Action Ignored By Paper With No Climate Editor or Reporters #JoeTakesOnTheNews

@LATimes Snooze-Worthy Story About Studio Opportunavores Cashing In Ignores Climate Reality Again #JoeTakesOnTheNews

Greenius On The Green Scene - The South Bay Report

@LATimes Treats Saudi Terrorists Like Successful Business, But Homeland Security Calls For Climate Action #JoeTakesOnTheNews

El Segundo’s @LATimes Forced To Cover Climate Crisis When Politicians Shove It Up Their To-Do List #JoeTakesOnTheNews

@Sammy_Roth And @LATimes Cover Buffet Company Plan To Destroy Climate For Profit #JoeTakesOnTheNews Tells You What You Should Do About It

@LATimes I Added The News Readers Need That You Left Out Again #ConnectTheDots #joetakesonthenews

Breaking News Too Late For @LATimes Print Edition Radically Changes LAX Expansion Story #JoeTakesOnTheNews

#FailedJournalism In @LATimes Front Page Story About Traffic On Another Planet Where They Aren’t In A Climate Crisis With 10 Years To Change Everything #JoeTakesOnTheNews

El Segundo’s @LATimes In Bed With Chevron Oil To Cover Up Oil Industry’s Deliberate Criminal Destruction Of Climate. Clueless Reporters See Nothing. Enjoy Today’s Food Section Ads #JoeTakesOnTheNews

Clueless El Segundo Newspaper @LATimes Continues To Ballwash Oil Industry By Deleting #ClimateEmergency From PR Piece For Chevron. @DrPatSoonShiong Desperately Needs A Climate Change Editor #JoeTakesOnTheNews

BREAKING NEWS: Hermosa Beach To Become Carbon Neutral City! Acting Locally, Thinking Globally

@LATimes Passes On Covering Earth Day. Publisher Says, “We Can’t Monetize The Climate Crisis So I Urge Readers Not To Worry About It And Just Attend The LA Times Food Bowl & Buy Tickets To My E-Sports Venture.”

News: 2023 Fisker Ocean Introduced

Solar Powered Greenius Producing Massive South Bay Energy

Honda launches first plug-in hydrogen fuel cell EV

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.

Honda May Develop Plug-In as Obama Alters U.S. Policy (Update2) - Bloomberg.com

Inside The Green Task Force

Greenius Drinks L.A. Times’ Milkshake On Global Warming

Headless Body In Topless Bar

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

Irresponsible Pro Fossil Fuel Pimping By @Chevron Favorite El Segundo Newspaper @LATimes #JoeTakesOnTheNews

@LATimes Becomes Least Credible Newspaper On ClimateCrisis In USA As Chevron Toxic Fumes Incapacitate Editors & Journalists. No Hope For Recovery Seen #JoeTakesOnTheNews

We Are ALL Tongan

@LATimes Continues To Suck The Big One On #ClimateEmergency Reporting As Staff Be Tripping On Jet Fumes & Chevron Flaring #JoeTakesOnTheNews

Comprehensive @Sammy_Roth Piece In Today’s @LATimes On Obscene @SCE Money Grab For Guaranteed 17% Profit Leaves Out Obvious & Best Solution For Public #JoeTakesOnTheNews

@LATimes Thanks For Hiring @Sammy_Roth To Cover Energy & Community Choice Power! Now Tell Us Why The Majority Of Eligible Cities Said NO To Choice & Cleaner Power #JoeTakesOnTheNews

@LATimes Asks The Wrong Question For The #ClimateCrisis They Still Don’t Report On Or Grok ##JoeTakesOnTheNews

@LATimes Continues To Suck At Covering #ClimateEmergency As Focus On Journalism Ends & Publisher @DrPatSoonShiong Looks To E-Sports Future For Failed Newspaper As Reporters Weep #JoeTakesOnTheNews

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