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Archives: Green Transportation

Science: Back Electric Cars if your City wants to defy Trump & Go Green

By Daniel Cohan | (The Conversation) | - - President Donald Trump’s decision to exit the Paris climate agreement reaffirmed what was already clear: The federal government is no longer leading American…

Trump’s new Clash of Civilizations: Carbonites v. Greens

By Michael T. Klare | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | - - That Donald Trump is a grand disruptor when it comes to international affairs is now a commonplace observation in the establishment…

Retraining Workers for Climate Action: How the Light Gets In

H. Patricia Hynes | (Informed Comment) | - - Every now and then I re-visit these lines of the Canadian poet and songwriter, Leonard Cohen: Ring the bells that cannot ring Forget…

The Other Terrorism: Toxic CO2 Gas Promoted by Trump Budget, Shell

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Terrorism is properly defined as non-state actors using violence against civilians to achieve a political purpose. Some argue that this definition lets states…

Top 3 Ways the People can build a Trump-Free, Carbon-Free Future

By Jeremy Brecher | ( Waging Nonviolence ) | - - As the thousands of foot-weary protesters look back on the Peoples Climate March in Washington, D.C. — and its scores of…

Can Climate Solutions also help Low-Income Consumers fight inequality?

By Basav Sen. | ( Inequality.org) | - - Renew Oregon is advancing innovative climate justice proposals, building on a legislative victory to expand the state’s use of renewable energy, with strong…

Sorry, Trump: China is Leading World toward first “Ecological Civilization”

David Tyfield | (The Conversation) | - - The Trump administration’s hostility towards climate action and research leaves a void in global climate politics. Could China step up? The world’s largest absolute…

Can the West Coast throw up a Green wall against Trump’s Assault on Environment?

By Arun Gupta. | ( Yes! Magazine ) | - - Despite a string of victories in the last few years limiting the expansion of fossil fuel infrastructure on the West Coast,…

When it comes to Climate Change, you are what you Eat

By Sarantis Michalopoulos | ( EURACTIV.com) | - - Governments are “trapped” by lobbyists, and it’s hard to fight climate change. But if young people are mobilised and turn to healthy lifestyles,…

Top 4 Worst pieces of Climate News from WMO in Age of Trump

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The World Meteorological Organization of the United Nations issued its annual report on the climate on Tuesday, making a full and final assessment…

Low-Carbon ‘Eat Local’ Movement taking Spain by Storm

By Oscar Tomasi Pancorbo | EFEAgro | Euractiv Concepts like “100% local” and “zero kilometer” products are now on an upward trend in Spain and are forcing the food industry to rethink…

Too bad, Trump: As EVs take off, Dirty Petroleum’s Death Spiral has Begun

Too bad, Trump: As EVs take off, Dirty Petroleum in Death Spiral

The Tree | - - The renewable energy revolution is now well underway, but many continue to underestimate just how fast and transformative it is going to be. Despite a conservative approach…

Get some Climate attitude: Ban Coal and forget about Carbon Capture

By Lili Fuhr | ( Project Syndicate ) BERLIN – Mainstream politics, by definition, is ill equipped to imagine fundamental change. But last December in Paris, 196 governments agreed on the need…

Sell that Oil Stock! Electric Cars are Here

The Tree | - - As fossil fuels fight loud and clumsy battles for continued dominance in countries such as the US, UK, and Australia, a renewable revolution as quiet as the…

Backfire: Did Volkswagen’s Dieselgate ensure victory of Electric Cars?

By EurActiv.com | - - The ‘Dieselgate’ scandal will mark an important step towards phasing out the hundred-year-old internal combustion engine which doesn’t have a place in a modern, low-carbon transport system,…

Top Six things You can Do to Stop Global Warming – Bill Nye

AJ+ | (Video) "Bill Nye the Science Guy has a few solutions to curbing climate change and putting a stop to global warming." AJ+: " Bill Nye's Climate Call To Action" 1.…

Welcome to Masdar City: the ultimate experiment in sustainable urban living

By Susan Lee | (The Conversation) | - - Ten years ago in the United Arab Emirates, a new settlement was started from scratch, with the aim of becoming “the world’s most…

Koch Brothers Declare War On Electric Cars

Cenk Uygur, John Iadarola, Ana Kasparian & Ben Mankiewicz | (The Young Turks Video) | - - "This is the election where we're finally focusing on the corrosive affect of money in…

The new Chinese Century? Can a Green China with no Mideast Entanglements Surpass US?

By Neil Thompson | (Informed Comment) | - - In the last fifteen years the United States has spent a total of between $4 trillion and $6 trillion on its twin wars…

As Vanguard for Climate Action, Low-Carbon Cities Could Save $22 Trillion

By Deirdre Fulton | (Commondreams.org) | - - Compact, connected, and efficient "low-carbon" cities could generate global savings of up to $22 trillion, while sharply reducing greenhouse gas emissions, alleviating poverty, and…