Red State Vs. Blue State: Climate Action Splits America
A divided nation can never be great. America is forfeiting its claim to being a world leader by refusing to address climate change seriously. The consequences will be enormous.
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China Is Eating Our Lunch While We Watch
One way or another, the future is coming for us. While we have not yet “decided” whether it will be climate disaster or climate saved, time will tell.The developed world’s recalcitrance is not only costing us time in preventing the runaway effects that are coming, it’s allowing China to gain a foothold and increase its influence, wealth, and power on the world stage.
The World Lost A Belgium-Sized Area Of Primary Rainforests Last Year
The tropics lost 12 million hectares of tree cover in 2018, the fourth-highest annual loss since record-keeping began in 2001. Of greatest concern is the disappearance of 3.6 million hectares of primary rainforest, an area the size of Belgium. The figures come from updated data from the University of Maryland, released today on Global Forest Watch.
Urban Transformations: In Medellín, Metrocable Connects People In More Ways Than One
Medellín, Colombia used to be the murder capital of the world. With the explosion of the global drug trade in the 1980s, crime burgeoned, plunging the city into a state of lawlessness. Slum communities, stacked up along the perilous slopes of the surrounding Aburrá Valley, were on the front lines of the violence and mayhem.But today, Medellín is transformed.
Cars Are Killing Us. It’s Time For What’s Next
Guardian columnist George Monbiot writes that we need to get rid of most private cars within 10 years because of the pollution and congestion they cause. He doesn’t spare electric cars from his analysis either.
23 Big EV Battery Stories — #NewsBonanza
There’s so much cleantech news to cover that we generally have hundreds of stories on our “story sheet” that we’re never able to cover. In the coming days, we’ll be rolling out a couple of strategies to help deal with our backlog. Yep, this #NewsParty format is one of those.
How Do We Go Beyond Purely Theoretical Sustainable Architecture? TU’s Solution: Go Out & Build…
CODE architecture students not only design but construct climate-oriented, resource-saving, and affordable projects in Bolivia, Iraq, Chile, and Europe.
Vestas Finishes Quarter With Flurry Of Activity, Restructures China Sales Operations
June 30th brought with it the end of the financial year in some spots around the world as well as the end of the second quarter, and Danish wind turbine manufacturer Vestas finished the month with a flurry of activity, announcing 9 wind turbine orders worth 803 megawatts (MW) and a renewed service agreement for 1,150 MW across the United States.
Electric Cars Don’t Solve Many Of Our Transportation Problems
After years of being derided as a joke by car manufacturers and the public, interest in electric vehicles has increased sharply, especially as governments around the world move to ban petrol and diesel cars.
Tesla vs Luxury Car Competition … A Solar-Powered RV w/ Tesla Batteries … From The…
This is a special edition of the #CleanTechnica Top 20 — I’m listing the top 20 CleanTechnica articles of the last week and the top 20 CleanTechnica articles of April. Have a gander:
