Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2010

The SG Biofuels/RSB pilot is evaluating the practicality and usability of RSB sustainability standards applied against a 1,400 acre (600 hectare) Jatropha community-farming model established by SG Biofuels in Guatemala. The company recently announced the first elite Jatropha cultivar, JMax 100 ( earlier post ), optimized for Guatemala.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Financing was announced for projects in Costa Rica, Dominica, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Japan, Kenya, Mexico, Tanzania, and the United States, while projects in drilling and start-of-construction phases made headway in Chile, Germany, Guatemala, Italy, Japan, Montserrat, The Philippines, Rwanda, and Zambia.

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Costa Rica Industry Industrial El Salvador 310

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 26, 2016

One biarticulated bus of the model replaces three standard vehicles. Volvo has delivered more than 4,000 buses to the BRT-systems of Curitiba, Bogotá, Guatemala City, Mexico City, Santiago de Chile and San Salvador. The bus will be able to carry up to 30 passengers more than the preceding model.

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Volvo Guatemala Brazil Chile 150

Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2013

California Air Resources Board (ARB) staff has posted four new Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) pathways to the LCFS web site. Others are sugarcane molasses ethanol from Guatemala; mixed feedstock to biodiesel from Texas; and a new ARB-staff-developed pathway for North American landfill gas. Earlier post.) Pantaleon Sugar Holdings S.A.

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Renewable California Carbon Diesel 236

Baua Electric

MARCH 20, 2024

Over the last several years, I’d been unlearning the standard narrative about precolonial history. Over generations of migration, they formed multiethnic polities and maintained vast trade networks: jade from Guatemala, gold and copper alloys from Colombia, jaguar’s teeth from continental jungles.

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Puerto Rico Colombia Guatemala Guinea 52

Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Bloom found that average students who were individually tutored performed two standard deviations better than they would have in a classroom. But as immigrants themselves (from Guatemala and Switzerland, respectively), they recognized that not everyone has access to great teachers. The founders weren’t trying to replace great teachers.

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Personal Concept Guatemala Store 145