Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2012

The study expands on findings published in 2007 in the journal Science that the American Southwest is becoming more arid as temperatures rise and rainfall patterns shift. Drying is expected in all three regions, as warmer temperatures trigger more evaporation, even in places that may see greater seasonal rain or snowfall, the study found.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

Although most countries have already revealed their opening emissions reduction proposals, UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer pointed out Thursday that “ we still await clarity from industrialized nations on the provision of large-scale finance to developing countries for immediate and long-term climate action. by Jack Rosebro.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Her Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) System for Ocean Hazard Recognition and Rescue: Scout and Rescue UAV Prototype project was showcased in May at Regeneron’s International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) in Los Angeles. She plans to study electrical or mechanical engineering in college.

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Creative Greenius

DECEMBER 21, 2009

When our South Bay 350 Climate Action Group asked for Congresswoman Jane Harman’s help with our October 24, International Day of Climate Action we got it. I’ve also been pounding away about the climate fate of the vulnerable small island states and sea level rise for many months now. Thank you Congresswoman Harman.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Warudkar is an associate aeroelasticity engineer at Virgin Galactic , in Los Angeles. The group included students studying aerospace engineering, computer science, industrial design, and mechanical engineering. “In a city already plagued by pollution,” he says, “we at least wanted to provide them with clean air at home.”

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

The study is published in Nature ; the results will be used to help state and local agencies and businesses prioritize investments to reduce emissions. To reduce methane’s impact on the climate, California has set a goal to cut overall emissions in the state by 40 from 2013 levels by 2030.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2010

In a new study published online 10 March in the ACS journal Environmental Science and Technology , however, Stanford University professor Mark Jacobson finds that local CO 2 emissions in isolation may increase local ozone and particulate matter. Although the health impacts of such changes are uncertain, he notes, they are of concern.

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Ozone Los Angeles Pollution CO2 218

Creative Greenius

AUGUST 31, 2009

I contributed the following to the World Wildlife Climate Witness site last week and it was published this morning. So not only is climate change-driven drought cutting our fresh water supply, but the way we use water here also adds to our greenhouse gas emissions.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

An international study of 10 global cities found that a balance of geophysical factors (climate, access to resources, and gateway status) and technical factors (power generation, urban design, and waste processing) determine the greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) attributable to cities. Tonnes CO 2 e/capita. Credit: ACS, Kennedy et al.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 24, 2022

In the 1950s he was her father’s first supervisor at the Institute for Advanced Studies , in Princeton, N.J. Gerald Estrin led the development of the WEIZAC , the first digital electronic computer made in the Middle East, and he helped found the computer science department at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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Creative Greenius

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

The South Bay region I live and work in covers an area of 161 square miles and encompasses 15 cities plus portions of the City of Los Angeles and unincorporated portions of the County of Los Angeles. It hardly seems fair. And you thought YOUR job situation was tough.

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Los Angeles Climate Change Climate Obama 199

Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2009

Although black carbon from motor vehicles is already regulated under vehicle PM emission rules due to known PM health effects, such regulations still permit substantial BC emissions, and the climate effects of such emissions are significant. Immediate GHG control is still absolutely necessary to stem short and long-term climate damage.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 1, 2009

In an opinion published this week in the Los Angeles Times , oceanography research scientist William Patzert of Jet Propulsion Laboratories and Los Angeles Metropolitan Water District (LA-MWD) Chairman of the Board Timothy E. The governor’s office projects the overall loss of statewide economic activity at US $3 billion.

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Creative Greenius

DECEMBER 2, 2008

Who seeks the truth from a rabbi who only knows of the Talmud but has never actually studied at any Yeshiva? The law passed back in July of this year, but none of the money is flowing yet to anyone in my city of Torrance or my county of Los Angeles. Who’s going to get converted by a guy who has no inverter?

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 2, 2013

The Scoping Plan describes the comprehensive range of efforts California must take to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020 and meet the state’s long-term goals to combat climate change. What steps must California now take to meet the state’s climate goals beyond 2020? Earlier post.).

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Creative Greenius

JANUARY 11, 2010

Inspired by President Obama’s election and the collapse of the ponzi scheme economy, I decided to work full time, pro bono, on the issues I cared about most – climate change, renewable energy, energy conservation and sustainability. Guest blogging posts on Climate Progress and 350.org Time for me to get back to work.

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Baua Electric

JUNE 11, 2024

Desjardin, a professor emeritus at San Francisco State University who has studied the ecology and evolution of fungi for over 40 years, said sellers of wild mushrooms should include instructions for consumption. Climate change is also upending some aspects of mushrooming. Urban foraging has long been popular, too.

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Creative Greenius

JUNE 18, 2009

Here’s the way the rest of the legacy media reported this story yesterday with links to their none-too-urgent coverage – courtesy of my FaceBook friends: White House Report Warns of Climate Change Effects – CNN. Climate Report Details Energy, Agriculture Harm – Reuters India.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 11, 2023

Photo-illustration: Max-o-matic; photo source: Herald Examiner Collection/Los Angeles Public Library The engineers at AC Propulsion (ACP) were familiar with the basic precepts of bidirectional EV power. General Motors’ Impact debuted at the 1990 Los Angeles Auto Show.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2012

A study led by researchers at UC Berkeley has found that diesel exhaust forms about seven times more secondary organic aerosols (SOA) than gasoline exhaust for the same mass of unburned fuel emissions and, given emission factors, can be expected to form 15 times more SOA than gasoline per liter of fuel burned. Click to enlarge.

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Creative Greenius

AUGUST 21, 2017

But it seemed pretty impossible once I became The Godfather of Community Choice Power in Los Angeles County – The Big Green Mafia Don as the wing nut fossil fuel lovers dubbed me. Wrote eight screenplays no one wanted to turn into movies, but kept studying and developing my talents as a writer and kept plugging away.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2013

For the current fiscal year, the program is slated to invest approximately $90 million to encourage the development and use of new technologies, and alternative and renewable fuels, to help the state meet its climate-change goals. Studies suggest that 68 stations are needed by 2017 to support the market. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2011

As examples, the authors noted, the storm largely cuts off traffic from Los Angeles to the north and east for 1-2 weeks, with gradual recovery. Congress deemed the cost of the study to be too high at the time. The alarm over the Californian flood-protection systems has already been raised; this study echoes prior ones.

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Plug In Partners

JUNE 27, 2006

They join Founding Members from these cities: Arlington, TX, Baltimore, Boulder, Dallas, Denver, Fort Worth, Irvine, CA, Los Angeles, Memphis, Philadelphia, Seattle, San Francisco, and Wenatchee, WA. New partners in recent months include: Denton, TX., Keene, N.H., Madison, Phoenix, Sacramento, Santa Ana, CA., Santa Barbara, CA.,

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2009

The global market for rocket launches may require more stringent regulation in order to prevent significant damage to Earth’s stratospheric ozone layer in the decades to come, according to a new study by researchers in California and Colorado. Ross et al. In the policy world uncertainty often leads to unnecessary regulation ,” he said. “

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2023

In addition to helping the nation meet ambitious carbon-neutral goals, the development and implementation of the proposed technology can help reduce the cost of and emissions from hydrogen production to mitigate the effects of climate change while creating new jobs and revitalizing our economy.

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Creative Greenius

JULY 2, 2009

And by sexy I mean hot and arousing, the way I get when serious people talk serious talk about renewable energy, about the revolution that’s needed to respond to climate change and about the reality of current world situation. Cara Horowitz, Executive Director, UCLA Emmett Center on Climate Change (c) 2009 Joe Galliani.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 7, 2023

“Public policy implementation is hard even if everyone supports a policy,” says University of Michigan professor emeritus John Leslie King , who has studied policy management and administration for decades. As one CARB member has stated , their concern is climate, whereas solving power generation is the responsibility of the CPUC.

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Creative Greenius

MARCH 22, 2009

Perhaps one of my many readers who work for the City of Torrance or the County of Los Angeles wants to pick that torch up and run with it. If I was in the actual city of Los Angeles, a lot more of my electricity would be made from Killer Coal and a lot less from clean, renewables. Fortunately I am fired up, ready to go!

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Los Angeles Solar Renewable Coal 170

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 31, 2019

Reintroducing commercial supersonic transport (SST) aircraft into the global aviation fleet could have significant noise and climate impacts by 2035, according to a new study by the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT). degree Celsius climate trajectory. The fleet of SSTs would emit an additional 1.6

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Revenge of the Electric Car

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

“We are trying to be proactive about how to make sure that the transformers that serve these homes and neighborhoods are robust enough,” said Doug Kim, an executive at Southern California Edison, which serves Los Angeles. They cost drivers on average only 2.5

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 8, 2022

Hoff returned to that job during breaks from his undergraduate studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute , Troy, N.Y. Under Hoff were research laboratories in Sunnyvale, Los Angeles, and Grass Valley, Calif.; These days, his main technical interests surround energy, water, and climate change. Cambridge, Mass.;

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

How will the pressures of climate change, limited fossil fuel resources and the mainstreaming of "green" consciousness reshape society? Follow the money. From renewable energy policy to carbon markets to dubious eco-advertising, our energy and environment reporters track the high-stakes pursuit of a greener globe.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

The vision is fuelled by the fear of climate change and the need to find green alternatives to dirty coal, unpopular nuclear power and unreliable gas imports from Russia. It’s the only way to save the planet from climate change. While utilities such as E.ON Environmentalists see another advantage to local entities

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Larry Burns, GM vice president for research and development and strategic planning: "Whether your concern is energy security, global climate change, natural disasters, the high price of gas, the volatile pricing of a barrel of oil and the effect that unpredictability has on Wall Street - all of these issues point to a need for energy diversity. (

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2017

A new study by a team from the University of Pennsylvania and MIT suggests it will be easier for cities to reduce CO 2 emissions coming from residential energy use rather than from local transportation. The study is published in the Journal of Planning Education and Research. Los Angeles, by contrast, produces only 10.7

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

How will the pressures of climate change, limited fossil fuel resources and the mainstreaming of "green" consciousness reshape society? Electric-Car Fans Rally Around the Volt Report Says Cap-and-Trade Is a Must for Canada’s Economic Survival From Carbon Footprints to Water Footprints Are Old Tires Fuel or Solid Waste?

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