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Is curbside charging the solution for the Plight of the Drivewayless?

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Solutions from the clever to the silly have been proposed, but if we look at dense cities where adoption is already well advanced, we’re bound to conclude that the answer is simply curbside charging—lots of small, cheap chargers that can fit into existing street hardware such as lampposts. In the US, the first two are well tended to.

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Helping Communities Hit by Climate Change

Green Living Guy

Residents lost electricity for at least two weeks, and some areas of the city are still out of power. Environmental researchers predict that the frequency of high category hurricanes will increase as the planet becomes warmer. Last year, New Orleans experienced the most severe hurricane since Katrina.

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Working to eliminate dangerous e-bike batteries

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E-bikes fall into an entirely different category than electric cars and trucks—they are made by a vast variety of manufacturers, and are often sold on platforms that don’t enforce safety standards. New York City, where e-bikes are extremely popular with delivery people and other gig workers, has had a spate of battery fires.

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Nominees announced for Aquatech Innovation Award 2019

Envirotec Magazine

Award entries were submitted across four categories, with the jury identifying nominees from each category to be considered as candidates for the overall prize. There is now an increasing difference between cities and the countryside because of the heat, waste and resource recovery challenges facing urban areas. Prof.dr.ir.

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Polluting vehicles predominate in car insurance enquiries, says survey

Envirotec Magazine

Despite the increasing popularity of greener vehicles, more than one in three (36%) cars in the UK fall into the worst two categories for harmful carbon dioxide (CO2) and nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions, according to recent research by price comparison site MoneySuperMarket.com. Image credit: Jeremy Segrott , CC BY 2.0 respectively.

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What Will Happen with Berkeley’s Natural Gas Ban?

Energy Central

A policy that falls in the latter category is the city of Berkeley’s ban on natural gas. However, sometimes when government leaders come up with solutions they face criticism for not doing enough, or that the solution comes at too great of a cost. Back in 2020, Berkeley banned natural and.

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Insights from green banking: What keeps customers from switching banks?

GreenBiz

Many people only move bank accounts during a moment of transition such as starting college, moving to a new city, starting a new job or getting married, then remain there unless a disruptive event happens. The responses fell into three categories that correspond to Chip and Dan Heath’s Switch framework. is 16 years.

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