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Alekhya C

Some states well ahead in race to cut emissions - 0 views

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  • Alekhya C on 07 Jun 14
     
    Interesting article about how cutting emissions has NOT led to economic loss, as critics always argue!
Michael Kozuch

japan-shelves-plan-to-slash-emissions-citing-fukushima - 0 views

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  • Michael Kozuch on 15 Nov 13
     
    More "fallout" from the Fukushima disaster.
  • Michael Kozuch on 15 Nov 13
Michael Kozuch

Climate Panel Says Emissions Are Nearing a Tipping Point - 0 views

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shared by Michael Kozuch on 27 Sep 13 - No Cached
  • Michael Kozuch on 27 Sep 13
     
    STOCKHOLM - For the first time, the world's top climate scientists on Friday formally embraced an upper limit on greenhouse gases while warning that it is likely to be exceeded within decades if emissions continue at a brisk pace, underscoring the profound challenge humanity faces in bringing global warming under control.
Richard DeNitto

Auto emissions go unchecked and lead to an unsafe environment - 2 views

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shared by Richard DeNitto on 17 Dec 13 - No Cached
  • Richard DeNitto on 17 Dec 13
     
    This article discusses a city in India that, despite having strict regulations, has highly unsafe air quality. They have laws in place to stop the extreme pollution, but without enforcement, there is little success.
Richard DeNitto

Should cars be taxed by the mile? - 3 views

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shared by Richard DeNitto on 19 Dec 13 - No Cached
  • Richard DeNitto on 19 Dec 13
     
    Pretty much self explanatory. Oregon is proposing to monitor vehicles and impose a tax on the amount of miles they are driven. This will be an incentive for people to drive less, use less fuel, and produce less CO2 emissions, but raises concerns about privacy with the governments ability to track and monitor vehicles
flintr

Google Public Data Explorer - GDP vs. CO2 Emissions - 3 views

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shared by flintr on 12 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • flintr on 12 Oct 11
     
    For instance, this is a map of the word over time where the size of a circle is the nation's CO2 emissions, and the color is the nation's GDP.
Michael Kozuch

Our Carbon, Our Climate, Our Cash - 0 views

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shared by Michael Kozuch on 26 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • Michael Kozuch on 26 Mar 13
     
    Nancy Folbre is an economics professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She recently edited and contributed to "For Love and Money: Care Provision in the United States." We all buy stuff that generates carbon dioxide emissions and threatens the stability of our climate.
Alekhya C

New Salem plant a test case for Mass. climate law - 1 views

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shared by Alekhya C on 20 Jan 14 - No Cached
  • Alekhya C on 20 Jan 14
     
    An old coal power plant in Salem, Mass. is scheduled to be replaced by a newer, smaller, 'greener' natural gas plant. Environmental advocates say that if we install this plant we will not meet our mandate for reducing carbon emissions, as set forth in the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2008 (the one that Dr. Cash worked on!!!). However, energy and power experts say that if this plant does not get built on schedule, Massachusetts will be in danger of blackouts and power shortages in 2016.
Michael Kozuch

New rules on large truck emissions - 0 views

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shared by Michael Kozuch on 21 Feb 14 - No Cached
  • Michael Kozuch on 21 Feb 14
     
    Good progress on climate.
Richard DeNitto

Engineering 200+ mpg cars - 4 views

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  • Richard DeNitto on 09 Dec 13
     
    This article includes a Q&A with the author of the book ingenious, a book about building cars to compete in the X Prize competition.
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  • Grant Balkema on 09 Dec 13
     
    Its fun to imagine cars like this on the streets. When the author says "companies would have to make vast, risky investments in uncertain new technologies" they could do the same with alternate energy such as hydrogen powered cars. Also this article does not really discus the production process of making these cars. Maybe because many of the cars are lighter, there would be less material meaning less carbon emissions as well. It would be interesting to know about the production of the cars as well.
  • Richard DeNitto on 10 Dec 13
     
    I agree with you Grant; however, I am still a little skeptical on the safety of these super lightweight cars.
  • Grant Balkema on 10 Dec 13
     
    Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. They talked a bit about how the increased maneuverability makes up for it but I'm not sure I quite buy that.
  • Michael Kozuch on 11 Dec 13
     
    I'm liking this discussion of the article. Exactly what diigo is for!
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