Karlyn McKell
January 15, 2021
Have electric scooters whizzed into your city yet? Smartphones and other IoT advancements have paved the way for shared rides to expand beyond car travel. Now, alternative transport methods are popping up in cities across the globe, with less CO2 emissions than automobiles.
Cities focused on sustainability are looking into how micromobility can solve transportation issues that have long plagued
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Grist News
January 12, 2021
3 charts show 2020's historic drop in greenhouse gas pollution.
Grist News
January 12, 2021
New York City and Los Angeles might endorse a "Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty."
GreenBiz Group
January 4, 2021
Last year, a number of automakers announced or advanced ambitious plans to electrify heavy-duty big rigs, semi-trucks, box trucks, delivery vans and more. That article was one of GreenBiz's most popular stories throughout the year. And the demand and interest in this technology is only growing stronger. Given that trucks consume the vast majority of energy compared to other modes of freight
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GreenBiz Group
December 17, 2020
Without the benefit of their favorite search engine, I’m certain many readers would be hard-pressed to name the largest, pure-play agricultural equipment company in the world. But digging into innovations being advanced by that organization — AGCO, based in Duluth, Georgia — reveals much about the potential future of technology for cultivating regenerative and precision
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GreenBiz Group
December 16, 2020
Have you ever been more ready for a year to be over?
In a little over two weeks, this dumpster fire of a year will be relegated to history. And while the world will be dealing with COVID-19 for many more months into 2021, something just feels so good about leaving 2020 behind.
Many books will be written about 2020 as a turning point in — you name it: American power. China relations. Democracy. In my
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GreenBiz Group
December 14, 2020
One of the world’s largest oil and gas companies is betting that the future of flying is carbon-neutral.
That may seem an audacious notion from a company whose business model for well over a century has centered around bringing fossil fuels to market — and is banking on petroleum being a key, albeit declining, fuel for decades to come. And it may seem unlikely that an industry as carbon-intensive as
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Grist News
December 12, 2020
Predictions, good news, and gift guides to give you hope for the new year.
Sustainability Matters
December 10, 2020
A battery recycling program is allowing the Royal Automobile Club of Queensland (RACQ) to reduce its environmental footprint and prevent 2500 tonnes of potential waste from going to landfill each year.
Club spokesperson Lucinda Ross said around 90% of batteries replaced by RACQ Roadside Assistance patrols and contractors are recovered for recycling.
“In the past financial year we
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GreenBiz Group
December 2, 2020
The race to mainstream electric vehicles by 2030
Katie Fehrenbacher
Wed, 12/02/2020 - 00:30
The world's leading companies and policymakers are coalescing around setting targets for adopting zero-emission vehicles around a 2030 time frame.
The latest — and one of the most aggressive to come from a country leader — was issued a few weeks ago by U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson,
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