Future360’s Sarah Backhouse recently attended the UCLA Institute for Environment and Sustainability panel discussion on Green Cities (one video from that is here). While there, Sarah landed an interview with Antonio Villaraigosa, the super green mayor of Los Angeles. Here’s a video of the interview: If you want a text summary, … [continued]
Update: An error was made regarding what the €1.68 represents. That has now been corrected. I’ve also added the time at which our writer’s animations are included in the film. I know — that was a bit of an ambiguous title. €1.68 cents, as a very small number of you … [continued]
And that’s the bad news. Apparently, 48,364 green cars (primarily hybrid and electric vehicles, but also green-ish diesels) were sold in the US in February 2013 (est.), 15% more than the 41,933 green cars sold in February 2012. While that does obviously mean that sales increased, it also means that … [continued]
Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Motors, hit the ground running this past week in Switzerland, laying out some very ambitious plans to get a slice of the European electric vehicle car market. While attending the Geneva Auto Show, Musk said Europeans will see the Model S, which won the 2013 … [continued]
Chinese leaders have proposed that the anti-dumping dispute over supply of solar photovoltaic (PV) modules to Europe be resolved through negotiations to avoid losses on both sides. The European Union (EU) would require Chinese modules to be registered at customs from April this year. Chinese module manufacturers have been facing … [continued]
Scientists of the Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh are working on photo-catalytic reduction technology which would recycle carbon dioxide emissions from power plants into liquid and gaseous fuels for the domestic and transport sectors. Another positive aspect of this conversion process is the use of solar radiation. A team of scientists led by … [continued]
If researchers could develop a low cost, invisible solar cell to sub in for ordinary window glass, the result would be a sustainability twofer of epic proportions. Windows are notorious as a weak spot for energy efficiency, even in newer buildings. That goes double for millions of older buildings in … [continued]
Reuters is a well known multinational news agency not exactly known as a political radical. It’s actually extremely neutral and “objective” (there’s really no such thing as objectivity in media coverage, but let’s not delve into that today). No offense to the notable news agency and its reporters, but its … [continued]
This article was originally published on RenewEconomy. For the nuclear industry and the pro-nuclear lobby, France is held out as the text book model of how an energy system should work: More than 70 per cent of electricity needs supplied by nuclear, relatively cheap electricity for customers, investment in the … [continued]
For decades, space heating and cooling (space conditioning) accounted for more than half of all residential energy consumption. Estimates from the most recent Residential Energy Consumption Survey (RECS), collected in 2010 and 2011 and released in 2011 and 2012, show that 48% of energy consumption in U.S. homes in 2009 was … [continued]
