DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 8, 2020

Read time: 12 mins More than a decade ago, fracking took off in the Bakken shale of North Dakota and Montana, but the oil rush that followed has resulted in major environmental damage , risky oil transportation without regulation , pipeline permitting issues, and failure to produce profits. Now, after all of that, the Bakken oil field appears moving toward terminal decline, with the public poised to cover the bill to clean up the mess caused by its ill-fated boom. .

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Green Living Guy

AUGUST 8, 2020

Croton Auto Park joins growing list of dealerships working to bring electric cars to Westchester County. They have a Chrysler Pacifica Plugin Hybrid ready to test drive. That’s in addition to the Sustainable Westchester EV Discount Program. That’s in addition our other Founding Dealerships Of Rivera Toyota and Nissan of Continue Reading. The post Sustainable Westchester EV Discount Program got Bigger!

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Unsustainable

AUGUST 8, 2020

Sustainable Fabric: Not all fabrics are created equal, especially as regards the costs of production and disposal to the environment and to human health. The post Fashion & Fabric: From Sustainable to Harmful appeared first on Unsustainable.

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Green Living Guy

AUGUST 8, 2020

The environment where we live affects how we function and socialize as human beings. Over the years, there has been a growing focus on climate change and how shifts in weather events and temperatures are affecting living organisms. Of course, although climate change is one of the threatening and pervasive Continue Reading. The post How to Write an Essay on the Environment appeared first on Green Living Guy.

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Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions

In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 8, 2020

We read a lot so you don’t have to comb … The post Earth911 Reader: Recycling, Sustainability, and Science Stories You Should Read This Weekend appeared first on Earth 911. View post: Earth911 Reader: Recycling, Sustainability, and Science Stories You Should Read This Weekend.

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Green Living Guy

AUGUST 8, 2020

There are more advantages to solar lighting than regular outdoor lighting. Solar-powered means you can charge them up using sunlight as the source of power. With the recent developments, solar technology is currently good enough to store their charge for long periods with light for regular use. Most modern solar Continue Reading. The post Things to Consider When You Need to Setup a Solar Panel appeared first on Green Living Guy.

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CleanTechnica

AUGUST 8, 2020

Even when the Tesla Model 3 begins to fully drive itself, it will still have humans on board. And it is best not to forget that. .

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CleanTechnica

AUGUST 8, 2020

In this episode of our CleanTech Talk podcast interview series, Zach Shahan chats again with Alf Poor, CEO of Ideanomics, Inc., about the electrification of the mining industry, and the benefits of choosing electric for heavy duty vehicles.

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CleanTechnica

AUGUST 8, 2020

Project Drawdown has issued an update to its first report entitled Drawdown Review. The group says we have all the tools we need to address climate change effectively. All we have to do is use them.

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CleanTechnica

AUGUST 8, 2020

Global problems need global solutions. Voluntary agreements and unilateral acts only go so far. We need a strategy to make climate action spread — to make it so contagious it will “go viral,” start a chain reaction, trigger a “domino effect.”.

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Speaker: Ayesha Choudhury - Senior Vice President, Head of Capital Markets at Infinium

With the first wave of the energy transition, renewable energy sources (such as solar and wind) have begun replacing coal power generation. However, some sectors are lagging behind and struggling to decarbonize more than others, including large-scale transportation like commercial aviation, shipping, and rail transit. Electrofuels (aka eFuels) are the next generation of solutions to help the hardest-to-abate sectors pivot from their reliance on fossil fuels.

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CleanTechnica

AUGUST 8, 2020

A potential bottleneck could come quite soon on the used EV supply side. Thanks to Japanese OEM’s love of mild hybrids and their quest to prolong the ICE age as long as possible, sales of EVs in Japan have been very disappointing. Sales have been so poor that the market share of EVs in Japan was recently just under 1%.

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CleanTechnica

AUGUST 8, 2020

Argonne National Lab says it has created a new eletrochemical process that can convert carbon dioxide and water into ethanol efficiently and at low cost.

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CleanTechnica

AUGUST 8, 2020

Every year we see some adventurers embarking on e-races and trips all around the world. I have myself reported on a few by Tomek Ga? in Europe, from Poland to Macedonia and Sicily, and by Arkady Fiedler across Africa.

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CleanTechnica

AUGUST 8, 2020

In this article, I'm going to discuss an idea I came up for Tesla to dramatically increase demand for their cars after I watched a certain YouTube video and did some more research. Let's start with the video.

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Speaker: Nik Gowing, Brenda Laurel, Sheridan Tatsuno, Archie Kasnet, and Bruce Armstrong Taylor

With 191 country signatories to the Paris Climate Agreement now hard at work in the race to zero carbon by 2050, much of the heavy lifting in ecosystem sustainability falls on the shoulders of the world's densely populated urban centers. This conversation considers how today's AI-enabled simulation media, such as AR/VR, can be effectively applied to accelerate learning, understanding, training, and solutions-modeling to sustainability planning and design.

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CleanTechnica

AUGUST 8, 2020

The nonprofit Forth and CleanTechnica are partnering on a webinar August 19 devoted to electric motorcycles, and CleanTechnica contributor Susanna Schick will be on the panel. Register here for this free event!

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CleanTechnica

AUGUST 8, 2020

US researchers are taking on the bioenergy challenge from all angles with an assist from the Department of Energy.

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CleanTechnica

AUGUST 8, 2020

There is something odd about the Volkswagen ID.4. The vehicle has yet to be properly unveiled. This would make sense considering the fact that this vehicle is slated to be released in either early 2022 or late 2021 and a new vehicle model is usually unveiled about a year before release — or is it.

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CleanTechnica

AUGUST 8, 2020

Despite the current crisis, green entrepreneurs across the globe continue to create positive climate impact and economic opportunities at ClimateLaunchpad. A record number of 3,000 startups from 56 countries entered this year’s edition of ClimateLaunchpad, the global green business ideas competition.

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Speaker: Bruce Armstrong Taylor, Co-Founder & Managing Director of SmartNations Foundation, Jimmy Jia, Venture Partner at Pi Labs, Fabienne Durand, Senior Advisor to the SmartNations Foundation, & Roger Strukhoff, Executive Director of the Tau Institute

The Climate 4.0 Economy. Climate change is here. We see it in many ways already. Weather catastrophes: Texas freezing over, the wildfires of California, the increasingly unpredictable violence and frequency of hurricanes, the rapid melting and disappearance of polar ice caps. Much more evidence all around us. What can we do in our corporate organizations, in our homes and communities, to change the current course?

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CleanTechnica

AUGUST 8, 2020

Volta and the City of Richmond in California have partnered to bring free EV charging to Richmond's residents.

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CleanTechnica

AUGUST 8, 2020

We covered the cute, fun, tiny Eli ZERO electric concept car in 2017 and 2018. It is not looking to upend the traditional global auto market like the Tesla Model 3 or Tesla Model Y, but it is a cool, attractive-looking little electric vehicle that could sell in decent portions to vehicle-sharing fleets, tourism transportation systems, college campuses, retirement villages, etc.

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CleanTechnica

AUGUST 8, 2020

Trevor of Tesla Owners Online recently explored Tesla's touchless test drive experience.

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CleanTechnica

AUGUST 8, 2020

The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) recently discovered that the value of rooftop solar in Michigan is 24 cents per kWh. This is well above the net metering compensation paid to customers with solar roofs installed. SEIA's Director of Rate Design, Kevin Lucas, shared this find in a Consumers Energy rate case testimony.

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CleanTechnica

AUGUST 8, 2020

There is something odd about the Volkswagen ID.4. The vehicle has yet to be properly unveiled. This would make sense considering the fact that this vehicle is slated to be released in either early 2022 or late 2021 and a new vehicle model is usually unveiled about a year before release — or is it.

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CleanTechnica

AUGUST 8, 2020

Let's dive into a new partnership between Nissan, E.ON, Newcastle University, Imperial College London, Northern Powergrid, UK Power Networks, and National Grid ESO — with Nissan and E.ON forming the core of the partnership. The consortium is named e4Future.

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CleanTechnica

AUGUST 8, 2020

Melbourne Airport is nearing completion of a 12.4 MW facility that will be the largest behind-the-meter solar installation in Australia when it comes online in January.

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