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Drought Causes Renewable Energy Generation to Drop Again

November 11, 2024 admin 0 Comments clean power, climate change, energy information administration (eia), hydroelectric, us hydropower

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2024 03:26:04 +0000

Climate change grows year after year. Climate disruption becomes the norm, and then more disruption comes. We’re in a race against time, and time is winning. The good news is that renewable energy dominates new power capacity installations and new electricity generation. However, sometimes, renewable energy generation goes down, because … [continued]

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Global Heating & Terror Management Theory

November 10, 2024 admin 0 Comments climate anxiety, climate change, Extreme weather, global heating, policy & politics, terror management theory

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2024 21:25:14 +0000

Global heating is leading to an increase in natural disasters, which can cause existential anxiety for many people.

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Could A Bacteria Eat Away At Plastics And Help To Mitigate Our Pollution Problem?

November 10, 2024 admin 0 Comments carbon emissions, climate change, Oil, waste reduction, Water

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2024 13:56:35 +0000

We tend to think of wastewater as the disgusting but necessary result of human life and living. Well, it seems as if a bacteria commonly found in wastewater may be able to break down plastic to turn it into a food source, a 2024 study finds. Plastic-eating bacteria could provide … [continued]

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How Many Things Can A Bus Transit Study Get Wrong?

November 9, 2024 admin 0 Comments Canada, carbon emissions, clean transport, climate change, electric trucks, Electric vehicles, green economy, hydrogen fuel cell, hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles, investment, Manufacturing, mass transit, mass transit / public transit

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2024 01:00:53 +0000

Recently, I had the opportunity to sit down with Michael Raynor, formerly a managing director of sustainability and thought leadership for Deloitte and author of multiple books on innovation and strategy. We talked about not only an innovative approach to addressing Scope 3 emissions Raynor has developed, but also an … [continued]

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World Moving On Without USA As It Declines

November 9, 2024 admin 0 Comments Canada, carbon emissions, carbon pricing, China, clean power, clean transport, climate change, Coal, Donald Trump, Electric vehicles, Energy, Europe, Fossil Fuels, green economy, green jobs, investment, Manufacturing, natural gas, Oil, policy & politics, renewable energy, Solar energy, usa, wind energy

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2024 19:26:38 +0000

For the past eight years, the United States has been missing in action in climate leadership globally. Biden’s climate policy experiments, aimed as much at attempting to deal with the root causes of working class and middle class grievance as at useful emissions reductions, will persist in some diminished form. … [continued]

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Shared Micromobility Trips in North America Offset Approximately 81 Million Pounds of Carbon Dioxide Emissions Last Year

November 8, 2024 admin 0 Comments bicycles, clean transport, climate change, electric bikes, electric micromobility, Fossil Fuels, green economy, micromobility, motorcycles + scooters, research

Credit to Author: Cynthia Shahan| Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2024 04:13:49 +0000

Shared Micromobility Trips in North America Averaged 1.5 Miles and 15 Minutes in 2023 The typical shared micromobility trip in North America in 2023 was 1.5 miles and 15 minutes long. E-bike excursions were the longest on average, covering 2.0 miles and lasting 20.3 minutes. Pedal bike journeys averaged 1.4 … [continued]

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Cash For Clunkers: Modern Electric Vehicle Variant An Obvious Climate Policy

November 8, 2024 admin 0 Comments africa, air quality, Canada, carbon emissions, cash for clunkers, China, clean transport, climate change, electric trucks, Electric vehicles, EU, Europe, ev batteries, ev sales, Fossil Fuels, green economy, green jobs, hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles, investment, Manufacturing, Oil, policy & politics, tesla, usa

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2024 18:16:48 +0000

In the 1990s, numerous countries both within and outside Europe launched vehicle scrappage schemes with multiple goals. Greece, Hungary, Denmark, Spain, France, Ireland, Norway, and Italy each implemented programs during this period, aimed at scrapping older cars to promote the purchase of newer, safer, and more efficient vehicles. For example, … [continued]

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Mice Vote To Bell Cat: Climate Terror In Alberta

November 6, 2024 admin 0 Comments Alberta, alberta oil (tar sands), alberta tar sands, Canada, carbon emissions, clean power, clean transport, climate change, Coal, electric trucks, Energy, Europe, Fossil Fuels, green economy, heat pumps, natural gas, Oil, oil sands, policy & politics, renewable energy, Solar energy, wind energy

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2024 15:32:45 +0000

Headlines out of Canada are making palms meet faces around the world. In Canada, the faces are often red with embarrassment about other Canadian’s actions. Other faces are red with anger. But it’s all theatrics during the inevitable dissolution of the oil sands. What are the headlines? Alberta’s ruling party … [continued]

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Voting Against Fascism Means Respecting Civil Society And The Planet

November 6, 2024 admin 0 Comments climate change, Donald Trump, elon musk, HEALTH, policy & politics, us election 2024

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2024 23:40:28 +0000

The media is full of stories about the potential outcome of the 2024 election and how it will impact the clean energy industry. Most of us of a particular age never thought we’d see a candidate whose ideology was in sync with fascism. Can efforts to mitigate the climate crisis … [continued]

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Another Day, Another Hydrogen Transportation Failure, This Time Quantron & IKEA

November 6, 2024 admin 0 Comments carbon emissions, clean transport, climate change, electric trucks, Electric vehicles, Europe, freight, green economy, green jobs, hydrogen, hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles, ikea, investment, Manufacturing, Shipping

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2024 19:24:17 +0000

A year ago, while assessing various organizations that had reached the terminus of the Odyssey of the Hydrogen Fleet six act tragicomedy, I pointed out the awful, horrible, very bad, no-good decision the Austrian branch of IKEA had made to buy Quantron hydrogen step van delivery trucks. Since then, I’ve … [continued]

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