PostedOct 30, 2017 | climate change, e-vehicles, energy, news, policy, sustainability
Cities like Vancouver aim to combat climate change. Twelve major cities including London, Paris, Los Angeles, and Cape Town promised on Monday to buy only zero-emissions buses from 2025 and to make major areas free of fossil fuel emissions by 2030 to protect the...
PostedOct 11, 2017 | e-vehicles, energy, international news, news, technology
After nearly a century of building vehicles powered by fossil fuels, General Motors — one of the world’s largest automakers — announced Monday that the end of GM producing internal combustion engines is fast approaching. The acceleration to an all-electric future will...
PostedSep 18, 2017 | climate change, e-vehicles, energy, news
The race is on for electric vehicle supremacy. Last week, China — the world’s second-largest economy and consumer of about one-third of new cars — announced it will set a deadline for automakers to end sales of fossil-fuel-powered vehicles, in a move that is expected...
PostedSep 18, 2017 | energy, lifestyle, sustainability, technology
A group of architects and engineers in Ottawa are building a tiny, totally self-sufficient house that people might actually want to live in. In a small alcove at the rear of the Architecture Building at Carleton University in Ottawa, the future of zero-energy housing...
PostedSep 7, 2017 | energy, international news, news, policy
The U.K. is set to provide as many as 800,000 low-income homes with free solar panels over the next five years in the biggest green program the country has ever implemented. Renewable energy provider Solarplicity will start with 100,000 homes over the next 18 months...
PostedSep 6, 2017 | climate change, energy, international news, sustainability, technology
The latest roadmap to a 100% renewable energy future from Stanford’s Mark Z. Jacobson and 26 colleagues is the most specific global vision yet, outlining infrastructure changes that 139 countries can make to be entirely powered by wind, water, and sunlight by...
