The SUV And The Democratization Of Driving
The demand for SUV vehicles has never been higher but contributes to higher prices that drive some out of the market.
COVID-19 pandemic
Berkeley Lab’s Top 10 Science Stories of 2021
Dealing with our climate crisis continues to be top of mind, although batteries, magnets, and exotic elements also captured the imagination Story by Julie Chao While the COVID-19 pandemic continued to be ubiquitous in science headlines in 2021, the urgency of the ongoing climate crisis became impossible to ignore. The Intergovernmental … [continued]
In 2020, the United States Produced the Least CO2 Emissions from Energy in Nearly 40…
In 2020, as the country responded to the COVID-19 pandemic, CO2 emissions from energy consumption in the United States fell to the lowest level since 1983. The 4.6 billion metric tons (Bmt) of CO2 emitted in 2020 was an 11% decrease from 2019, the largest annual decrease on record, according to our Monthly Energy … [continued]
2020 Tied For Hottest Year On Record, NASA Analysis Shows
Earth’s global average surface temperature in 2020 tied with 2016 as the warmest year on record, according to an analysis by NASA.
Solar MD’s South Africa Ramp-Up Shows Demand For Battery Storage Is Growing
One of the companies that has been quite active in the battery storage market is Cape Town-based Solar MD. If a critical mass of home batteries can be installed, it may help avert some of the load-shedding during peak demand hours.
Building Resiliency With Renewable Energy: A Look At ZOLA Electric’s Efforts To Combat COVID-19 Through…
ZOLA Electric is one of many distributed solar companies thinking about what COVID-19 means for their business and how solar can be deployed to help combat the pandemic.
What Does COVID-19 Minimization Tell Us About Conservative Ideology & Climate Change?
Dotard Trump has spent the entire coronavirus emergency lying about its severity, claiming it’s going to disappear on its own, scapegoating progressives and believing his own lies. The virus is a perceived threat to his power, his fear being that reality will cause voters to turn on him. So instead … [continued]
Thoughts On Our Current Reality: Being With The Grief
Collectively we are feeling different types of grief: grief for what WAS and grief for what MIGHT BE. In this article I’ve shared some thoughts about how we can better sit with our emotions to regulate how we show up in the world.
Carmakers To The Rescue — N95 Mask Mass Production
Wearing a mask to protect yourself from germs and air pollution is quite normal in East Asia. In China it is now even mandatory in a number of provinces when leaving the house. The coronavirus scare has made the public and the government even more conscious of the threat of infection.
