Volvo Polestar Exec Says Tesla Is Way Ahead In Terms Of Efficiency
This comes as no surprise, and hopefully, it keeps lighting a fire under the competition. Legacy automakers, as well as new startups, really have two choices when it comes to…
UK harvests its first crop of chickpeas
This is precisely the kind of healthy, sustainable agriculture we should be trying to expand globally. Some exciting news has just come out of the United Kingdom. The country's first-ever…
Lithium Werks To Build Battery Gigafactory In China
Lithium Werks, a Dutch energy storage company, is the latest who would like to catch onto the growing demand for lithium-ion batteries and announced a battery gigafactory project. The idea…
World’s first floating dairy farm comes to Rotterdam
Let's hope cows don't get seasick The city of Rotterdam, in the Netherlands, is about to become home to the world's first floating dairy farm. An offshore facility is under…
41% of land in contiguous US is used to feed livestock
When Katherine wrote that cutting meat and dairy is one of the best things you can do for the planet, I think many of us focused on the methane emissions…
Sweden to reach its 2030 renewables target 12 years early!
For those who say it's too difficult... Sweden has been meeting renewable energy targets long before it was cool to do so, but Bloomberg reports that it's about to do…
Google Maps Now Offers Detailed Charging Station Info
Google Maps now includes a charging station search feature Google announced that Google Maps got a new feature of searching for charging stations and displaying information about the sites. As…
Beyond organic: Carbon farming is a pathway to climate stabilization and resilient soils
Through the adoption of smart carbon farming practices, an acre of land could store anywhere from 10 to 100 tons or more of carbon, which can help both mitigate climate…
Tesla Registers 6,425 New Model 3 VINs: All Dual-Motor
Highest Tesla VIN registered now above 135,000 Tesla ramps up the pace of VIN registrations for Model 3. Within just five days, 18,863 new VINs were registered! The latest batch was for…
Energy sector’s carbon emissions to grow for second year running
Carbon emissions from the energy sector are on track to grow for the second year running, in a major blow to hopes the world might have turned the corner on…
Volkswagen Plans Massive Electric Car Offensive: 1 Million EVs By 2025
A year ahead of its massive BEV offensive, Volkswagen Group shared some base targets The German group intends to base its all-electric cars on a dedicated platform, the modular electric…
How an energy-efficient house can become a big wind-powered battery
Passivhaus or PassiveHouse buildings have a lot of insulation and lose heat very slowly I have previously called them thermal batteries, speaking figuratively. But now Es Tressider of Lean Green…
It’s Earth Overshoot Day, when we go into global resource overdraft
OK, it’s the middle of the month and you’ve paid the mortgage, the car payment, the cellphone bill and your bank account is now empty and you go into the…
SolarGaps blinds generate solar electricity while shading your windows
These plug-and-play solar smart blinds track the sun's angle in the sky throughout the day and produce clean electricity for home or office For those who can't, or don't want…
15,000 scientists from 184 countries warn of dire future for humanity
Humanity is not taking the urgent steps needed to safeguard our imperiled biosphere, the authors write Twenty-five years ago this month, the Union of Concerned Scientists and more than 1500…
Global August Sales: Model 3 Dominates, Tesla #1 Overall
Tesla takes all the wins! #1 in model and manufacturer rank, for the month and for the year EV Sales Blog just released its global statistics on plug-in electric car sales…
Labour wants green energy to power most UK homes by 2030
Almost all of Britain’s homes and businesses would be powered by wind, solar and nuclear power by 2030, under bold new green energy plans being outlined by Labour Rebecca Long-Bailey,…
Climate change could bring stronger winds, more wind power
A new study by the British Antarctic Survey, the University of Oxford and the University of Bristol looked at what effect a warmer world would have on winds, specifically across…
Science suggests path to hope for human intervention to minimize climate change
The issue of climate change often seems to be a race pitting human complacence against the ecological tipping point Everyone knows that if the predictions regarding climate change are proven…
What older generations can teach us about plastic-free living
The simplest, most effective solutions to the plastic pollution problem may lie in the past How are we going to solve the plastic pollution problem? This has become a hot…