Last week I had the opportunity to talk with over 300 participants in an Australian Smart Energy Council webinar. It was organized to exploit my unusual timezone alignment with Oz as I spend a few weeks in New Zealand as a digital nomad. Over 600 signed up, expecting to listen … [continued]
No matter how progressive a car company gets — no matter how seriously it takes recycling or risk market share to offer cruelty-free interiors — modern cars need steel, and manufacturing steel without the use of fossil fuels remains a challenge. Luckily, it’s a challenge that Volvo, at least, seems … [continued]
Dr. Charles Donovan of Imperial College in London says economies built on energy from renewable sources will be better able to deal with severe disruptions like the coronavirus.
I have several acquaintances who are concerned about our present administration and Trump’s anti-environmental actions (now he’s just turned back the protection of streams and waterways, giving industry carte blanche to pollute even more). Several of those same individuals just bought new gas cars in the last year. That’s the problem! It’s not the climate deniers, however naive they may be — it’s the people who understand the danger at our door and think it’s someone else’s responsibility to fix.
Critics of renewable energy claim transitioning away from fossil fuels will be too expensive. But what about the cost of continuing to base the global economy on oil?
The government’s plan to roll back fuel economy standards goes much further than the auto industry requested. Who is behind the proposed changes? A New York Times investigation has the answer.
The German organization of car owners ADAC has for the first time compared the combined emission balance of all types of passenger cars in a major study. The result: There is no powertrain that generally has the best climate balance, and the electric car is not always particularly climate-friendly compared to the internal combustion powered car.
CleanTechnica’s coverage of the historic round-the-world flight by Solar Impulse 2, a no-fuel, all-solar-powered plane, continues. Read our previous reports and exclusive interviews here. Solar Impulse — the zero-fuel marvel of 21st century aviation and harbinger of a new energy age — landed a bit early at the Cairo, Egypt … [continued]
China, a major strategic investor in fossil fuels, has set itself a 2014 target of slashing imports of thermal coal, and it looks as if that plan is on track. Guest contributor Justin Guay reported here in August, with a deep analysis, why consumption of Chinese coal had decreased during … [continued]
Almost everyone in the media has taken a stab at summarizing, if not snap-judging, the results of Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s one-day UN climate summit last week. The meeting had a real name, but Robert N. Stavins in his New York Times runup to the conference was the only writer I … [continued]
