Published on May 27th, 2017 | by Cynthia Shahan
The goals of Volkswagen's ongoing effort to be more environmentally friendly go beyond producing more electric cars. The environmental targets of its resource-optimized factories are also focused on aligning with the Paris Climate Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations. Volkswagen is now planning 45% reduction instead of 25% reduction in CO2 emissions, energy and water consumption, waste production, and solvent emissions by 2018 (compared with 2010)... Read More →
Published on May 27th, 2017 | by Cynthia Shahan
The experience of going online as a driver for Uber or Lyft used to be about the same. Drivers sign on and sit and wait for rider requests to ping into the system. Drivers of on-demand taxi services are going to gravitate to Lyft rather than Uber more after this weekend, though. A new Lyft app provides Lyft drivers with the option of picking up a planned rider request.
Accepting rider requests days or hours beforehand is an immense change and a big plus for drivers. Additionally, the entire experience is unheard of until now — to know where the passenger is going and how long the drive/ride may be... Read More →
Published on May 27th, 2017 | by Steve Hanley
Nearly a week ago, an editorial in Der Spiegel, Germany's top news magazine, called for the impeachment of Donald Trump, calling him a laughing stock and a danger to the world. It's not often for an editor of a foreign magazine to lambaste the leader of another country but these are not normal times... Read More →
Published on May 27th, 2017 | by Guest Contributor
Originally published on The Climate Reality Project. When we talk about the many effects of the climate crisis, a few tend to take center stage. We can easily understand why the Atlantic Ocean lapping down the [&hellip... Read More →
Published on May 27th, 2017 | by Guest Contributor
Last summer, about a dozen high school and college students fanned out across the South Bronx and Brooklyn into four neighborhoods heavily trafficked by waste-hauling trucks. They counted the trucks and used special wearable monitors to test air quality. Not surprisingly, the more trucks, the dirtier the air.
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Published on May 27th, 2017 | by Guest Contributor
Originally published on Nexus Media. By Marlene Cimons A new report finds that the wider the gap between rich and poor, the more the environment suffers. We often talk about how climate change exacerbates social and economic [&hellip... Read More →
Published on May 27th, 2017 | by Guest Contributor
In Brooklyn, you can buy honey collected from an urban bee hive. You can buy lettuce grown atop an old bowling alley. And now, you can purchase free range, gluten free, fresh, organic solar power right off your neighbor’s roof... Read More →
Published on May 27th, 2017 | by Guest Contributor
Faced with rising temperatures and a dearth of American leadership, scientists are investigating geoengineering — deliberate, large-scale interventions to cool the Earth’s climate. Geoengineering can take many forms. Solar geoengineering is the most risky and controversial.
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Published on May 26th, 2017 | by Steve Hanley
The UK set another solar power record on May 26, the second time this month that has happened. On that sunny day, nearly a quarter of all the electricity on the grid came from solar panels. ... Read More →
Published on May 26th, 2017 | by James Ayre
Rumors are now going around that BMW has killed off the i5 electric vehicle project. These rumors seem to have originated with "unnamed sources" at BMW, according to BMWBlog, so who knows if they are actually true or not at this point... Read More →
Published on May 26th, 2017 | by James Ayre
Following our earlier articles on the allegations by some that working conditions at Tesla's Fremont production plant aren't safe, it appears that Tesla, for whatever reasons, will now be getting a new Human Resources head... Read More →
Published on May 26th, 2017 | by James Ayre
US President Donald Trump has proposed that the federal government cease paying out oil & gas royalties for Gulf of Mexico oil & gas production to states situated along the Gulf Coast, according to recent reports... Read More →
Published on May 26th, 2017 | by Steve Hanley
The world's largest floating solar power plant is now operations in Anhui province in China, formerly one of the largest coal producing regions in that country. ... Read More →
Published on May 26th, 2017 | by Carolyn Fortuna
Exposes from The Guardian point to the Trump presidential bid win as a product of social media manipulation... Read More →
Published on May 26th, 2017 | by Kyle Field
The City of Portland, Oregon, and Multnomah County have locked in a commitment to obtaining 100% of its electricity from renewable sources by 2035 as the latest #CommitTo100 city to join the pledge... Read More →
Published on May 26th, 2017 | by The Beam
The contest is focused on early stage startups with world-changing possibilities that are scalable and disruptive. $1,000,000 in total is being awarded over a period of three years at ten separate pitch events taking place across the globe... Read More →
Published on May 26th, 2017 | by Scott Cooney
The Department of Hawaiian Homelands (DHHL) owns 10,000 homes across the Hawaiian islands that it leases out on 99-year leases to residents of Hawaiian ancestry. It's part of the state's affordable housing initiatives, and it provides much needed relief from high cost of living for many Hawaiian people... Read More →
Published on May 26th, 2017 | by Tina Casey
The Energy Department nominee for second in command, Daniel Brouillette, could be "stealth" fan of clean technology and renewables... Read More →
Published on May 26th, 2017 | by Joshua S Hill
GE Renewable Energy has been selected to provide wind turbines to a 300 megawatt wind turbine being developed in Texas by Invenergy, North America's leading independent clean energy provider. ... Read More →
Published on May 26th, 2017 | by Kyle Field
This article serves as a complement to my first review of the 2017 Chevrolet Bolt, which was a summary of my takeaways from my first 24 hours with the car. Disclaimer: I didn't sleep in the Bolt, so there's admittedly a gap there in the review process... Read More →
Published on May 26th, 2017 | by Joshua S Hill
In the second agreement announced between the two companies this week, GE Renewable Energy has been selected to provide cyber security for Invenergy's fleet of wind turbines. ... Read More →
Published on May 26th, 2017 | by James Ayre
A consortium of various auto manufacturers in India is now working to convince the government there that a proposed sales tax on hybrid vehicles could well kill the development and sale of such vehicles in the country, according to recent reports... Read More →
