Tag: environment
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Earth Matters: Unmet emissions pledges imperil planet; many local eco-advocates elected on Tuesday
Back in 1972, the Club of Rome-commissioned “The Limits of Growth,” a report that argued the world’s economic system could not continue its current rate of growth because of resource constraints and environmental matters. The report presented various outcomes for what could happen when the growth of industrial civilization collided with finite resources. Without big changes of direction,…
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More Electricity Is Used To Mine Bitcoin Than Is Used To Power Some Countries
PA More electricity is used to mine bitcoin than is used to power some countries, researchers have found. The value of Bitcoin has soared in the last year or so, reaching a record-high of $50,000 this month. According to a tool developed by researchers at Cambridge University, the currency’s energy use is equivalent to the…
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Earth Matters: Young Georgians push climate in runoff election; Exxon thinks we’re stupid
Earth Matters is a Daily Kos compendium of wonderful, disturbing, and hideous news briefs about the environment. • U.S. will hold climate summit next year as it seeks to rejoin Paris Agreement: During the very, very busy first 100 days of the Biden-Harris administration, the United States will host a climate summit. President-elect Joe Biden…
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How to buy carbon offsets that actually make a difference
New trees sequester carbon like crazy. (Binyamin Mellish/Pexels/) Despite the fact that many of us stopped commuting and skipped the airport due to the pandemic, our carbon footprints didn’t disappear this year. Perhaps you went on a long road trip for vacation, or drove to avoid public transit or flying (I drove almost 10,000 miles…
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Earth Matters: ZETA pushes for all electric vehicle sales by 2030; Portuguese youths sue on climate
• Twenty-eight companies join forces to drive for all electrical car revenue by 2030: With names such as Tesla, Lucid, PG&E, ConEdison, along with Uber, the firms have formed that the Zero Emission Transportation Association (ZETA) to search 100% electrical car sales in just a decade. Not only passenger automobiles, but also the whole line-up of light-,…
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Earth Matters: Critics nix Facebook’s climate hub; speculation soars over Tesla ‘Battery Day’
Earth Matters is a Daily Kos compendium of amazing, upsetting, and horrible news briefs about the environment. • Facebook starts Climate Science Information Center. Critics aren’t impressed: In a media release, Facebook announced it plans to fight disinformation with a new climate heartbeat designed “to link individuals with science-based info, and an ambitious new web zero emissions…
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How SUVs Conquered the World—and Ruined the Environment
This piece was originally published in the Guardian and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. They are the hulking cars that have conquered the world. Spreading from the heartlands of the US to a new generation of eager buyers in China to dominate even the twisting, narrow streets of Europe, the sports utility…
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“Million-Mile” Batteries Are Coming. Are They a Revolution?
This piece was originally printed in Grist and appears as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. Electric vehicles (EVs) have a clear environmental advantage over their gas-guzzling counterparts, however in regards to longevity, the two have been at a dead heat. 2 hundred thousand miles is regarded as a good, long term to get a car built…
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Report projects 43% fewer EV sales, but critic asserts rebound will be sharper than for other cars
In a stunning but unsurprising report, Wood-Mackenzie advisers on Wednesday forecast that international electrical vehicle sales will drop 43 percent in 2020 as a consequence of the economic reaction to the spread of this novel coronavirus. However, Stan Cross at the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy argues there’s no reason to think the EV market is going to…
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Spotlight on green news & views: Dixie Chicks scorch gaslighters; deniers twist scientific views
This is the 637th edition of the Spotlight on Green News & Views (previously known as the Green Diary Rescue). Here is the March 21 edition. Inclusion of a story in the Spotlight does not necessarily indicate my agreement with or endorsement of it. OUTSTANDING GREEN STORIES ClimateDenierRoundup writes—To Appease Oil Industry, Trump To Sacrifice Hundreds of Lives,…