January 19th, 2020 | by Johnna Crider
There are many electric vehicle (EV) advantages, but the top benefit according to EV drivers in survey after survey is the environmental benefit of driving electric. Our friends at Third Row Podcast recently broke that out into three distinct advantages. Those advantages are that they are energy efficient, reduce air pollution, and help prevent climate change
January 19th, 2020 | by Barry A.F.
CleanTechnica has posted 40,000 articles since 2008, written by hundreds of authors. In these, there are many that have covered current events, many that are instructional/timeless, and many that provide useful comparative knowledge such as renewable vs fossil fuel costs
January 15th, 2020 | by Johnna Crider
A Delta flight bound for Shanghai had to make an emergency fuel dump earlier today. That fuel rained down upon Los Angeles near a school playground. Around 40 people were injured, the AJC reports
January 12th, 2020 | by Cynthia Shahan
Dominion Energy has partnered with local Virginia school districts to begin replacing diesel buses with 100% electric school buses in phases
January 12th, 2020 | by Jacek Fior
I thought I would go back to the Zayed Sustainability Prize winners from last year to check what has changed and how the prize has impacted their operations
January 10th, 2020 | by Johnna Crider
In a report from the American Cancer Society, it is shown the rate of people dying from cancer in the United States has declined, and that's for the 26th consecutive year
January 7th, 2020 | by Steve Hanley
Over the past decade, hundreds of coal-fired generating plants have been shut down all across America, many of them replaced by facilities that burn natural gas instead. A new study explores the relationship between coal plant emissions and human mortality both nearby and downstream from those facilities
January 6th, 2020 | by Johnna Crider
Air pollution killed nearly 10,000 Americans in 2018, and 2019 must have seen a similar total
January 5th, 2020 | by Cynthia Shahan
I understand income barriers. So, bravo to California for helping those who want to change afford to change. California's new electric vehicle (EV) incentives for the lower income help them improve air quality and fight climate change by going electric. They can now get $9,500 in EV incentives in certain regions, or even $14,000 if you add in state incentives and all requirements are met
December 31st, 2019 | by Barry A.F.
Due to climate change, 100-year, 500-year, and even 1000-year weather events are happening with alarming regularity. Unfortunately, we are still not at a mitigation level to avoid 1.5ºC or even 2ºC (2.7° F to 3.6° F) temperature rise
December 29th, 2019 | by Mark Z. Jacobson
The Earth is rapidly approaching 1.5°C global warming, air pollution kills over 7 million people worldwide each year, and diminishing fossil fuel resources portend social instability. Yet, recently, world leaders at the United Nations Madrid climate talks failed to agree on a path forward. The core of the problem is the belief by some leaders that solving global warming will be expensive and drain the economy of their country. However, new research indicates that this belief is incorrect
December 25th, 2019 | by Carolyn Fortuna
Here is a list of strategies to broach clean energy solutions with folks that aren't as accepting as you'd like
December 24th, 2019 | by Johnna Crider
Big Green is changing the world one seed at a time. The idea is a seed bank with a collection of thousands of seeds. This is an investment into our future and gives students access to hands-on food education — educating our children about food is truly important for coming next generations. Big Green is raising funds for the seed bank
December 20th, 2019 | by Johnna Crider
Mystery pork will soon be in our stores — if it's not already there. This isn't just an environmental issue, but also a health one
December 20th, 2019 | by Michael Barnard
While Jacobson's latest Stanford study on 100% renewables by 2050 will draw fire for leaning into the Green New Deal, it strongly supports that policy
December 20th, 2019 | by Michael Barnard
Jacobson's latest study carefully uses with current technologies and currently available resources for storage and transmission. The latest evidence is that there are much cheaper alternatives than his team models, underselling the potential
December 20th, 2019 | by Michael Barnard
100% renewables for 143 countries covering 99.7% of global energy carbon emissions is very inexpensive compared to business as usual in Jacobson's latest
December 19th, 2019 | by Cynthia Shahan
"Seven Challenges for Energy Transformation 2019," a report by Rocky Mountain Institute, was launched during three connected international events in Delhi, Beijing, and New York that convened the world’s leading energy stakeholders and catalysts to kickstart a global effort to accelerate the energy transition and mitigate the climate crisis
December 19th, 2019 | by Michael Barnard
What do we protect? What do we make resilient? What do we abandon, and how? What do we avoid? These are major global questions for the 21st Century
December 16th, 2019 | by Cynthia Shahan
Another scientific article is out on the health effects of air pollution, and this one exposes both the long and the short of it. The comprehensive study proves what numerous other studies and common sense told us: air pollution hurts us. "Hospitalizations for several common diseases—including septicemia (serious bloodstream infection), fluid and electrolyte disorders, renal failure, urinary tract infections, and skin and tissue infections—have been linked for the first time with short-term exposure to fine particulate air pollution (PM2.5)."
