Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2019 00:11:44 +0000
If you were to search for a typical article about Tesla in the media outlet RT (formerly called Russia Today, and Russia’s most prominent international information/propaganda outlet), it is likely that you would come away with the impression that Tesla is a company led by an incompetent CEO producing pathetic, highly dangerous, and unpopular cars
Credit to Author: The Canadian Press| Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2019 16:48:42 +0000
The judge said the legislation raises a serious issue and could cause irreparable harm to the residents of B.C.
Read moreCredit to Author: Chanan Bos| Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2019 00:46:40 +0000
This week, schoolchildren and adults all over Europe and Australia are protesting government inaction on climate change. In the US, large portions of half the population are also protesting and the other half of the population is still deciding whether they “want” to believe in it — or, in the more advanced stages, whether to believe in the severity of the problem. Actually, it’s not a problem, it’s a full blown catastrophe, a complete and total destabilization of the world climate
Credit to Author: Daryl Elliott| Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2019 05:49:49 +0000
Ted Krumm, head of the UAW’s bargaining committee states: “This strike is about us … standing up for fair wages, for affordable quality healthcare, for our share of profits, and for our job security.” Apparently, the autoworker union does not believe that GM is adequately sharing with workers the more than $8 billion in profits the company made in
Credit to Author: The Beam| Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2019 19:15:53 +0000
Decades of oil spillage in Nigeria’s oil-rich Niger Delta and the incessant bickering over who should own up to the wanton environmental degradation has taken a toll on Nigeria’s economy, seeing it slid into recession with the delta being classified as one of the most polluted places on earth
Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2019 17:15:15 +0000
Critics of renewable energy claim transitioning away from fossil fuels will be too expensive. But what about the cost of continuing to base the global economy on oil?
Credit to Author: David Gilbert| Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2019 12:21:44 +0000
And now Iran is warning it’s ready for a “full-fledged” war.
Read moreCredit to Author: Saurabh| Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2019 03:33:41 +0000
Welcome to the inaugural issue of our new India x Cleantech series! On a monthly basis, we will pull news from across clean technology sectors in India into a single, concise summary article. Ongoing, this series will find a home over on CleanTechnica’s “Future Trends” page. Without further ado, here are this month’s highlights from India x Cleantech
Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2019 23:43:48 +0000
Imagine this scenario for a moment: It’s a nice day out. The sun is shining beautifully and you’re at the beach. You can feel the sand between your toes, the gentle breeze carrying the scent of salt to your nose as it passes through your hair. The water is gently flirting with the shore in happy, foaming waves that bring pieces of wood, rocks, and the occasional fish before retrieving back into her embrace. It’s cool, a sensual contrast to the warm sand, as it washes over your feet
Credit to Author: Barry A.F.| Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2019 03:00:48 +0000
Just recently we learned Volkswagen is going to sell an electric vehicle (EV) retrofit kit for its classic Beetle. Many CleanTechnica articles are about the transition of the world’s driving fleet to EVs, the expectation that sales of internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles will eventually be supplanted by EVs, and a broad forecast that fleet turnover will take approximately 15 years once ICE vehicle sales cease until the world reaches 100% electric power in this sector