tipping point Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Sat, 20 Oct 2018 05:18:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Walmart and UPS are Soon Electrifying Their Fleets https://www.greenoptimistic.com/walmart-and-ups-are-soon-electrifying-their-fleets-20181020/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/walmart-and-ups-are-soon-electrifying-their-fleets-20181020/#comments Sat, 20 Oct 2018 05:13:34 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=67460 The tipping point is on the horizon; Walmart and UPS fleets will soon be completely electrified. Under pressure from regulators and customers to ditch fleets that run on fossil fuels, everything from delivery vehicles to garbage trucks to school buses are struggling to figure out how to economically make the switch. Electric vehicles promise to […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/walmart-and-ups-are-soon-electrifying-their-fleets-20181020/feed/ 1 67460 We’re On The Verge of Destroying Our Planet, Scientists Say https://www.greenoptimistic.com/were-on-the-verge-of-destroying-our-planet-scientists-say-20120607/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/were-on-the-verge-of-destroying-our-planet-scientists-say-20120607/#comments Thu, 07 Jun 2012 10:26:29 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=24862 A new study performed by 18 scientists and published in Nature reveals that we should not be at all optimistic when it comes to the integrity of the ecosystem. Their modeling, involving multiple disciplines, suggested that are just a step away from wreaking an irreversible imbalance that would destroy our civilization. They called it the “tipping […]

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