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Economist: Electric vehicles to equal price of conventional ones by 2025
Ellen Hughes-Cromwick, senior economist at the University of Michigan Energy Institute, told Yale Climate Connections (YCC) that in three to five years electric cars will likely cost the same as comparable gas-powered ones. Her prediction is made in part on … Continue reading
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Tagged batteries, electric vehicles, transportation
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Martin Luther King on Living Together
Here is a quote from Martin Luther King that everyone in the climate change movement should take to heart: We have learned to fly the air like birds and swim the sea like fish, but we have not learned the … Continue reading
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We can reverse global warming — learn how
The formation of the Sandwich Climate Crisis Coalition was inspired by the Pachamama Alliance and the Drawdown Project. Now they jointly have produced an inspiring 90-minute video demonstrating how the reversible is possible and how you can make a difference. Register … Continue reading
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Trump’s Leaders Undoing Environmental Protections
Politics matter and so will the Presidential election in the fall when it comes to solving climate change. Those of us interested in ending global warming must get fully involved in this upcoming election. Here is what the New York … Continue reading
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Tagged Environment, EPA, Fossil Fuels, Lobbyists, Trump
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Amazon’s 100,000 electric delivery vans & employee climate demands
The Sandwich Climate Crisis Coalition has a goal that in some ways is similar to Jeff Bezos’ of Amazon. We both have plans to be replace fossil fuels with renewables by 2030 and reduce greenhouse grasses. In September 2019, Amazon ordered … Continue reading
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Carbon Cash-Back Coalition pushes for fossil fuel fees
The Sandwich Climate Crisis Coalition (SCCC) leadership believes that fossil fuel companies can no longer be allowed to freely dump pollutants into the sky. We wrote earlier about demanding that banks, investment and insurance companies divest their investments in these … Continue reading
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Tagged dividends, fees, Fossil Fuel
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Rural Community Solar Farms: A Maine Example
Earlier we wrote about how Taos, N.M, is establishing solar arrays that could service up to 18,500 homes. Mount Desert Island in Maine is doing the same on a smaller scale. Communities like these are worthy of the Sandwich Climate … Continue reading
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Disrupt flow of fossil fuel investment money
An action step: Right after I read the article referenced below I sent an email to my retirement fund broker and told him to read this article, adding that he and his young colleagues might want to lead a corporate-wide … Continue reading
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Stanford Professor’s Vision of Our Clean Energy Future
Mark Z. Jacobson, Director of the Atmosphere/Energy Program at Stanford University, has mapped out how countries worldwide can transition to mostly wind, water and solar energy by 2050; But we have to start now. He writes in CleanTechnica In this new … Continue reading
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Make Fossil Fuel Companies Pay
The Sandwich Climate Crisis Coalition agrees that there is global warming caused by too many greenhouse gases. Of course, fossil fuel companies are the major culprits, it’s time we stop allowing them to profit at the expense of the Earth … Continue reading
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