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Greenius Plants Tree to Help Restore Hope

Creative Greenius

But time has afterburners when the holidays roll around especially when your friendly neighborhood Greenius is in such demand locally. But turn around and look the other way and it looks like something out of John Carpenter’s Escape from Los Angeles. .

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Greenius Gets Groove On with Greenpeace & GRID Alternatives

Creative Greenius

In this case for GRID Alternatives at a low income home in my old neighborhood in Long Beach, California. I was there to help Greenpeace collect petition cards urging President Obama to take a stronger leadership role on climate change and to go to Copenhagen and take personal responsibility for the USA’s role in the talks.

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It’s Time To Go To The Mattresses

Creative Greenius

We already gave the Killer Coal Family a chance to stop disrespecting us and make things right - but what did those climate-changing con artists do instead? They aimed more smokestacks at us and dumped toxic waste in our neighborhoods while they paid off the cops and the justice system to get away with it. That just ain’t right.

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We Don’t Need a Jetsons Future, Just a Sustainable One

Cars That Think

Much of the motivation behind building new rockets or developing colonies on Mars is wrapped up in the rhetoric of our warming planet being something to escape from. Climate change is a great example. Last year, Jeff Bezos created a US $10 billion fund to make investments in organizations fighting climate change.

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Greenius Plants Tree to Help Restore Hope

Creative Greenius

But time has afterburners when the holidays roll around especially when your friendly neighborhood Greenius is in such demand locally. But turn around and look the other way and it looks like something out of John Carpenter’s Escape from Los Angeles. .

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What’s In It For Me?

Creative Greenius

And then there is the issue of climate justice which motivates me more than any amount of money ever could. Because my father’s mother was a Romanian Jew, an illegal immigrant, who fled to America to escape World War II, all Jews and all refugees on the run are my family. “What’s in it for me?”

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Smart Meters and Electric Cars

Revenge of the Electric Car

It might seem that simply plugging in your Chevy Volt or Ford Escape before bedtime would do. But increased use of electric vehicles could lead to everyone plugging in at the same time, peaking demand and complicating things, particularly if electric vehicles take hold of entire neighborhoods, as car trends often do, Kjaer explained.