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My Week With the Future of Garbage Bins
It’s 10 pm and, like a vampire stirring in its coffin to greet the nocturne, my garbage bin comes to…
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This Was the Year That Electric Vehicles Took Off
It might finally be happening. For years now, technologists have promised that the age of the electric vehicle cometh. After…
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What the Soup-Throwing Climate Activists Got Right
Some people have argued that the stunt discredited the wider climate movement. I don’t buy that for a second. Instead,…
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One Solution to the Food Waste Problem: Eat Your Garbage
The villains of climate change tend be what we put out: carbon-spewing cars, soot-emitting power plants, farting cows. So it…
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It’s Time to Reframe the Story of Climate Inequity
In 2011, DTE Energy Company removed 1,200 streetlights from the city of Highland Park, Michigan. A Black working-class suburb of…
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Banning Gas Cars Is Good, but It’ll Take More to Save the Planet
When a California pollution regulator voted last month to approve a rule banning new gas-powered car sales in the state…
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GM President Mark Reuss on the Automobile’s Electric, Autonomous Future
It’s a heady time to be a car executive. Lawmakers worldwide are pushing the auto industry to electrify, and fast.…
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The Climate Bill Is Poised to Electrify Delivery Vans and Trucks
When it comes to the electrified future of transportation, passenger vehicles get all the love. Automakers are eager to sell…
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Data Centers Are Facing a Climate Crisis
When record temperatures wracked the UK in late July, Google Cloud’s data centers in London went offline for a day,…
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Energy Firms Are Going ‘Green’ by Offloading Dirty Coal Plants
Energy companies’ sell-off of fossil fuel assets is “obviously a big problem,” says Pieter de Pous, a senior policy advisor…
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