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Over the last year they’ve gone from lofty aspirations to wheels on the street, with new models enthusiastically received by early-adopting consumers. The EV business is no longer theoretical, says Ernst & Young. Seeing the opportunity, manufacturers, utilities and service providers are forming unconventional alliances. They’re creating new business ... keep reading
Written by Celsias this week, about Climate Change, Coal & Oil, Consumerism, Economics, Emissions, Industry & Business, Lifestyle & Behavior, Politics & Government, Pollution
On January 27th, the California Air Resources Board (ARB) made history by unanimously approving a comprehensive package of new emissions rules for cars and light trucks, including a mandate that promises to put 1.4 million electric and hybrid vehicles on the state’s roads by 2055. The rules ... keep reading
Written by Julie Mitchell this week, about Action, Protest, & Activism, Climate Change, Economics, Electric vehicles, Emissions, Health, Lifestyle & Behavior, Politics & Government, Pollution
Despite massive gains in global access to electricity over the last two decades, governments and development organizations must continue to invest in electrification to achieve critical health, environmental, and livelihood outcomes, according to new research published by the Worldwatch Institute for its Vital Signs Online publication. Between 1990 and 2008 ... keep reading
Written by Celsias this month, about Children and Families, Economics, Industry & Business, Lifestyle & Behavior, Population
Photo: UNEP/GRID-Arendal The latest wave of The Sustainability Survey - GlobeScan and SustainAbility's regular survey of attitudes across businesses, NGOs, academia and government - reveals that a very large majority (88%) of the 642 experts polled see pressure for short-term financial results as a barrier to businesses becoming more sustainable ... keep reading
Written by Celsias this month, about Clean Technologies, Climate Change, Economics, Finance & Money, Industry & Business
Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu this week launched the Water Tight 2012 report, which explores the future of the global water sector in the year ahead. The report examines how major global trends such as population growth, increasing economic development, and urbanization, coupled with the changes in climate patterns, underscore the importance ... keep reading
Written by Celsias last month, about Economics, Finance & Money, Food, Water
DuPont has achieved zero waste to landfill across all of its 15 global manufacturing and partner sites in its building innovations business. After three years of working towards its 'drive to zero' landfill programme, DuPont Building Innovations claims to have reduced its annual environmental footprint from just over 36,000 ... keep reading
Written by Celsias last month, about Consumerism, Design, Economics, Industry & Business, Recycling
Deals for new generation from renewable technologies are entering the 'big time' driving the market to new record highs, reports accountants PwC. In its annual global analysis of merger and acquisition transactions PwC says renewable power deal values rose 40% year on year, from $38.2bn in 2010 to a ... keep reading
Written by Luke Walsh Edie News last month, about Clean Technologies, Climate Change, Economics, Emissions, Finance & Money, Green energy, Industry & Business
Protecting the land of highest priority for biodiversity conservation also delivers significant, life-sustaining services and income to the world’s most impoverished people, according to a new study published this month in the journal, BioScience. Yet conservation efforts and poverty alleviation efforts are both at risk of failing, since this ... keep reading
Written by Celsias last month, about Agriculture & Food, Biofuels & Alternative Energy, Children and Families, Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Economics, Environment & Wildlife, Lifestyle & Behavior
The impact of dwindling oil supplies on the economy is a persuasive argument for shifting away from fossil fuels, write James Murray and David King in a Comment piece in Nature this week. There was a ‘tipping point’ for oil in 2005. Before then, production of crude oil increased to ... keep reading
Written by Celsias last month, about Coal & Oil, Economics, Finance & Money, Politics & Government
The World Future Energy Summit has recently finished in Abu Dhabi and for me one of the highlights was the Turanor, an impressive solar powered yacht designed and built by Planet Solar. It is the largest boat of its kind to ever sail and the first to ever circumnavigate the ... keep reading
Written by Celsias last month, about Economics, Energy Saving, Industry & Business, Pollution, Solar, Transport, Travel
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