How U.S. Cities Are Preparing For More Life-Threatening Heatwaves
Officials from Portland, New York, Miami and Phoenix discuss plans to keep residents safe in extreme heat.
Officials from Portland, New York, Miami and Phoenix discuss plans to keep residents safe in extreme heat.
A Changing Relationship with Energy
Another day, another cascade of high temperature records broken across the Pacific Northwest as a heatwave unlike any in recent memory continued into a third day. In Washington, Oregon, and British Columbia, all-time records were broken in many places for the third consecutive day: In Portland, highs topped out at … [continued]
Here on planet Earth, summer is becoming the worst season. Instead of looking forward to sunny days lazing around on beaches, we find ourselves annually playing a game of climate roulette, with continuously worse odds, and megafires, off-the-chart smoke levels, and category 5 hurricanes, the outcomes of unlucky rolls. This … [continued]
Originally published on RMI.org. By Alexander Dane & Alisa Petersen US city budgets are tighter than ever due to COVID-19. The American Rescue Plan Act, recently passed by Congress and signed into law by President Biden, will provide some relief in the near term, while the proposed American Jobs Plan offers a tantalizing vision … [continued]
By Ellen Currey-Wilson As I walk around Portland, Oregon, these days, I see more electric cars on the road, and a fair number of them have female drivers. This is surprising based on what we know about electric vehicle sales in the past. According to a 2021 report from Hedges … [continued]
Editor’s note: I found that this guest contribution reflects my own thoughts. Although I prefer walking and bicycling, I also drive an EV. When I drive, I don’t want to blow exhaust on the pedestrians and bicyclists who are even “more zero emissions” than a person driving a zero emissions … [continued]
In the fall of 2020, Lyft, working with the City of Portland, dramatically expanded and upgraded Portland, Oregon’s bikeshare system, called Biketown. The expansion included adding an additional 13-square mile area for the city and the introduction of an entirely electric fleet, solidifying Biketown’s unique relevance among bikeshare systems…
A couple of weeks ago, CleanTechnica profiled an important way to electrify everything equitably.
Getting around cities in electric vehicles (EVs) is getting easier as EV infrastructure grows. But traveling between cities is still a challenge as infrastructure, incentives, and policies aren’t always implemented on a regional scale.