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Musk Mayhem Continues: Tesla Employee Fired For Freedom Of Speech Error

March 1, 2025 admin clean transport, Donald Trump, Electric vehicles, elon musk, EPA, events, HEALTH, policy & politics, tesla, us environmental protection agency (epa)

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2025 17:55:44 +0000

What happens if you work for Tesla and you voice your concerns about the CEO’s social media post that jokes about Nazism? You’re told to clean out your cubicle and never again let your shadow cross the gilded Tesla corporate threshold. It’s another example of Musk mayhem at work. Bantering … [continued]

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Why Do Team Sports Contribute More Climate Emissions Than Individual Sports?

February 10, 2025 admin Aviation, clean transport, climate change, co2 emissions, events, football, Fossil Fuels, soccer, Sports, super bowl

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2025 15:05:32 +0000

On this weekend of the US Super Bowl, we were eating chili, comparing quarterback stats, listening to some Kendrick Lamar, and debating the strategies of the Eagles vs. the Chiefs. What most of us likely weren’t doing was taking time out of the fun to consider the climate impacts that … [continued]

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Science Purge Is Part of United States’ Echoing Of Mao’s Cultural Revolution

February 10, 2025 admin Canada, carbon emissions, China, clean power, clean transport, climate change, Donald Trump, Electric vehicles, elon musk, Energy, Europe, events, Fossil Fuels, green economy, heat pumps, natural gas, Oil, policy & politics, renewable energy, Solar energy

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Sun, 09 Feb 2025 02:32:57 +0000

As Mark Twain is reported to have said, history doesn’t repeat but it rhymes. Trump 2.0’s actions are very much rhyming, albeit discordantly, and with a dismal period from the past of the United States’ proclaimed great enemy, China. Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution, launched in 1966 and lasting until 1976, … [continued]

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You Can Help To Support Climate Action Through Sport

February 10, 2025 admin clean power, clean transport, Electric vehicles, events, soccer, Solar energy, Sports

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Sun, 09 Feb 2025 02:16:16 +0000

With the Super Bowl leading many US media headlines, climate activists are curious how much chat there will be this year about climate emissions reductions among football team owners, sponsors, players, and fans. That’s because an increasing number of people in universities, think tanks, NGOs, and citizen initiatives have started … [continued]

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Taking It To The Tracks: EV Development Pushes The Need For Racing Speed

January 13, 2025 admin electric car racing, electric cars, Electric vehicles, ev racing, events, formula e, scope 3 emissions

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2025 01:50:41 +0000

In 2025 we will see further electric vehicle (EV) development as part of the transition to a cleaner, greener economy. At the source of this innovation is the quest to continually enhance EV vehicle performance while also instilling public confidence in EV technology. The unique demands of competitive racing scenarios … [continued]

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Wildfire Climate Misinformation Is Rampant, And Social Media Platforms Are Promoting It

January 11, 2025 admin climate change, climate misinformation, events, Media, meta, Wildfires

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2025 04:47:44 +0000

Devastating consequences of the climate crisis are being submerged by climate misinformation messengers, who are persuaded by a self-serving but very powerful minority to mistrust scientific evidence. In many cases such disbelief emerges from social media affordances, which could actually be tapped as a source for rapid public information dissemination … [continued]

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The Inside Scoop On The First Ever Electric Vehicle To Hit The Rose Bowl Parade

December 28, 2024 admin California, circular economy, clean transport, cleantechnica, cleantechnica exclusive, COLLEGE, Electric vehicles, ev batteries, ev parade, ev parades, events, football, lithium iron phosphate, lithium iron phosphate battery, recycling, repurpose, reuse, rose bowl, usa, waste reduction

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2024 23:27:41 +0000

For the first time ever in Rose Bowl history, an electric vehicle will power a float in the 136th annual Rose Bowl Parade on January 1, 2025.

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Superconducting Transmission Of Electricity Is Here And It’s Supercooled

December 24, 2024 admin carbon emissions, climate change, electricity transmission, Energy, energy efficiency, Europe, events, green economy, green jobs, grid, hvdc transmission, investment, Manufacturing, policy & politics, Smart Grid, superconductivity

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2024 00:35:23 +0000

A couple of months ago, I was in Brussels speaking at the launch of the second edition of Supergrid Super Solution: A Handbook for Energy Independence and a Europe Free From Fossil Fuels. I’d participated in tuning the second edition, written by European renewables giant Eddie O’Connor with Kevin O’Sullivan, … [continued]

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Earthquake And Remembrance: The Tsunami Of 2004

November 25, 2024 admin cleantechnica, cleantechnica exclusive, disney, Earthquake, Earthquakes, events, Hulu, National Geographic, research, SCIENCE, Tsunami

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2024 22:49:56 +0000

A new National Geographic documentary depicts the human struggle following the killer earthquake and tsunami of 2004.

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Agenda Of Canadian CUTA Transit Conference Shows They Have Hydrogen On Brain Too

November 21, 2024 admin bus (buses), byd, Canada, carbon emissions, clean transport, climate change, electric bus, electric buses, Electric vehicles, events, green economy, green jobs, hydrogen, hydrogen fuel cell, hydrogen fuel cell buses, investment, Manufacturing, mass transit, mass transit / public transit, policy & politics

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 03:29:49 +0000

Globally, there are almost 700,000 battery electric buses in operation and perhaps 6,000 hydrogen buses. In Europe in 2023, about 6,400 new battery electric buses were registered vs. about 140 hydrogen buses. As I noted recently, there have are more hydrogen bus trials that have been abandoned than operational hydrogen … [continued]

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