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November 27 Green Energy News
by George Harvey
27 Nov 2020 at 3:53am
Headline News: ?Solaris Delivered 242 Urbino Electric Buses In 2020?s First 3 Quarters? ? Solaris sold 242 electric buses in the first 3 quarters of the year, nearly a quarter of all the electric buses sold in Europe. Those 242 Solaris Urbino electric buses went to cities in just five countries: France, Spain, Germany, Italy, [...]
November 26 Green Energy News
by George Harvey
26 Nov 2020 at 3:39am
Headline News: “Trump?s Last-Ditch Effort to Drill the Alaskan Wilderness” ? The Trump administration is making a last-minute push to sell oil rights in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Firms can now select which swaths of pristine Alaskan wilderness they would like to drill, and they could bid on leases before President Trump leaves office [...]
November 25 Green Energy News
by George Harvey
25 Nov 2020 at 5:36am
Headline News: “Superformance Is Building An All-Electric Cobra For 2021” ? Superformance claims it has a license from Shelby himself to build ?official? continuation Cobras, and this one is just stunning. A few things it does not have are the shiny roll bars, a rumbling, side-mounted exhaust, and a gaudy hood scoop feeding air into [...]
November 24 Green Energy News
by George Harvey
24 Nov 2020 at 5:32am
Headline News: “Super Hot October Drags 2020 Toward 2nd-Hottest Year On Record” ? The year to date (January through October) ranked second-hottest for the globe as Arctic sea ice coverage shrank to historic lows for the month, according to NOAA scientists. The most recent monthly global climate report from NOAA also has other highlights. [CleanTechnica] [...]
Groups Urge Biden to Use Existing Authorities to Cut Energy Waste, Carbon fro...
by Michelle Harrison
23 Nov 2020 at 7:52pm
New ACEEE briefs give detailed recommendations for manufactured and federally backed housing, federal buildings In a Biden administration, half a dozen federal agencies should use their authority under existing laws to create jobs, reduce consumers? utility bills, and mitigate climate change by reducing energy waste from homes and buildings, a [...]
Oregon Fire Burns State Senator?s Home
by George Harvey
23 Nov 2020 at 12:02pm
Sen. Fred Girod walks through the remains of his home near Mill City, Oregon, on Sept. 13, 2020. Mill City, Gates and other towns along the Santiam River were all but destroyed by the Beachie Creek Fire and residents were forced to evacuate. “This was my forever home,” Girod said. Photo by Brooke [...]
Documentaries We Recommend
by George Harvey
23 Nov 2020 at 12:02pm
A Life on Our Planet by David Attenborough www.youtube.com/watch?v=64R2MYUt394. Kiss the Ground (how soils can sequester carbon if we farm right) www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3-V1j-zMZw. Reviews by Victoria Ines A Life on Our Planet You have benefited from biodiversity. From medicines and therapies to food, biodiversity plays an integral role in every single life on this planet. [...]
Is This the End of the World as We Know It?
by George Harvey
23 Nov 2020 at 12:01pm
Or is it something else altogether? Image: Flickr/Strawberry Singh George Harvey A recent report in the journal Scientific Reports has been quite a topic of discussion lately (https://bit.ly/Nature-end). Basically, it says that even if we stopped emitting greenhouse gasses today, it would be too late to stop climate change, because we have passed the [...]
Climate Change Is Pushing Record-Setting Disasters
by George Harvey
23 Nov 2020 at 12:01pm
Hurricane Delta. NASA image. George Harvey It is amazing what an increase of 1°C (1.8°F) can do. As the world has warmed by just that amount, disasters have grown fast. And the disasters are clearly more numerous and worse because of a little bit more heat. According to [...]
New England Is Also on Fire
by George Harvey
23 Nov 2020 at 12:01pm
Looking down into a Forest Fire. Image: Wikipedia Commons/defenseimagery.mil What a record fire season signals about the future of a wet state Philip Kiefer In mid-May, Chris Easton, an assistant fire chief in the town of Dixmont, Maine, was standing in his yard when he noticed a huge column of [...]
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