End of Life on the Planet as We know It, The Rolling Stone lists some of the companies bringing us this consequence,
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Robert Reich’s take on the financial failure… Just when you thought Wall Street couldn’t sink any lower – when its myriad abuses of public trust have already spread a miasma of cynicism over the entire economic system, giving birth to Tea Partiers and Occupiers and all manner of conspiracy theories; when its excesses have already [...]
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Andy Hoffman. “If business isn’t developing solutions to our sustainability issues, they won’t be developed,” says Andy Hoffman. “If business is not part of the solution, there will be no solution.” Yes and No, Andy. Hoffman is director of the Erb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise at the University of Michigan. “The reality is that [...]
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Relaying a Big Gav post Giles Parkinson at ReNewEconomy has a call to redesign the way energy markets work to handle the shift to renewable energy – It’s time to redesign the world’s energy markets. The path from point A to point B in the de-carbonisation of the world’s electricity markets is looking more problematic [...]
New York Taxi and Limo Commission chose the Nissan NV200 over the Ford Focus Hybrid, which has been tested extensively since 2005 and also over the Turkish Karsan.
Oh, Archie, that was our Sputnik Moment
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Like the airline industry, the shipping industry is fighting against efforts to curb its contribution to global greenhouse gas emissions. There is little inducement from the countries where these ships are registered.
While taxi companies are seeing years of service and savings from hybrid taxis, battery-powered all-electric taxis represent a more stringent test of this form of propulsion.
Designed to withstand a beating, they’re heavy and slow to turn.
By later this year Melbourne Bike Share will have 50 station and 600 bikes for hire.
