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The National Carbon Offset Standard of Australia (NCOS) certified the city of Melbourne as the latest carbon-neutral metropolis in the country. Although this is already a remarkable achievement, the city officials are not planning to stop there. They have identified...
With the adoption of increasingly strict emissions laws, automakers are turning to electrified vehicles to push emissions down and increase fuel efficiency. According to the recent Corporate Average Fuel Economy laws passed in November, automakers will have to be...
In an effort to educate consumers to curb emissions and the benefits of cleaner transportation, the Toronto nonprofit, Summerhill Group, is giving away free gas cards and other prizes. Learning how to commute more efficiently doesn't have to be painful...
As part of their recent aim to become the ‘greenest’ city in the US, Washington DC has signed a new contract requiring that all government agencies be 100% powered by wind energy. The deal, signed between DC’s Department of General...
Based upon the levels of CO2 in the atmosphere, which could continue to be released, the Earth may be heading toward conditions like those of the Paleocene-Eocene event. If this is the case, species might not be able to...
The brand new Apple data center in Maiden, North Carolina, is fully powered by renewable energy. The company announced that this is part of their great attempt to go green and completely switch to renewable energy sources. Around 75% of...
A new unique design of flow batteries, which combines the latest mechanical technologies with novel chemistry, is offered by the startup EnerVault, promising longer hours of energy storage at a much lower cost. The first demonstration will be installed and...
A couple of months ago, a software patch was released to solve the Tesla Model S parasitic drain problem, but did it work as planned? Parasitic drain, in a conventional automobile, is common and usually not much of a problem...
Now that the Renault ZOE prices and options have been revealed, we'll see how Renault's gamble developing its fourth electric vehicle pays off. We first saw a concept of the Renault ZOE, a subcompact electric vehicle, in 2009. We didn't...
Currently, the only plug-in diesel hybrid that you can buy is the Volvo V60, but you can't buy it here in the US. It seems odd then, that Volvo would be showing the Volvo V60 at the upcoming New...