Going Green
Venture On with Best Green Ideas
- Going Green
- SJS / GreenPolicy Siterunner:
- Going green begins with a decision to become a planet citizen, acting,
- moving, choosing to create waves, setting in motion rippling forces of change...
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C40 Cities
Commitment to Green and Healthy Streets
As mayors of some of the world’s great cities, we are committed to transforming them into greener, healthier, and more prosperous places to live. Our streets must be safe and accessible for everybody and our air must be clean and free from harmful emissions. This will improve the quality of life for all citizens, and help tackle the global threat of climate change.
We envision a future where walking, cycling, and shared transport are how the majority of citizens move around our cities. This shift towards zero emission mobility will result in less congestion and less pollution, while making our roads quieter and the air we breathe cleaner.
One third of greenhouse gas emissions from C40 cities come from transport and traffic is the biggest source of air pollution, globally responsible for up to one quarter of particulate matter in the air. As cities continue to grow they are becoming more congested, with people spending more time in traffic.
A study across the US, UK, France and Germany showed that congestion on our roads is costing the economy on average almost one percent of GDP. This is not only holding back our economies through lost time and productivity, but also harming our health and the environment through worsening air pollution. Recent data shows that dirty air leads to almost 4.5 million premature deaths a year and afflicts many more, particularly children, with illnesses such as asthma.
We are already delivering our vision of greener, healthier and more prosperous cities but we recognise the urgent need for ambitious climate action to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement. We also recognise the need for a comprehensive, holistic approach to transform the way people travel around our cities that builds on pledges made as part of the C40 Clean Bus Declaration and supports those articulated in the Global MacroRoadmap: An Actionable Vision for Transport Decarbonization.
We pledge to transition to Fossil-Fuel-Free Streets by: 1) procuring, with our partners, only zero-emission buses from 2025 and 2) ensuring a major area of our city is zero emission by 2030.
To meet this commitment, we will:
• Transform our cities through people-friendly planning policies.
• Increase the rates of walking, cycling and the use of public and shared transport that is accessible to all citizens.
• Reduce the number of polluting vehicles on our streets and transition away from vehicles powered by fossil fuels.
• Lead by example by procuring zero emission vehicles for our city fleets as quickly as possible.
• Collaborate with suppliers, fleet operators and businesses to accelerate the shift to zero emissions vehicles and reduce vehicle miles in our cities.
• Publicly report every two years on the progress the cities are making towards these goals.
Green Action-agenda
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The Fossil Fuel Challenge
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World's first electrified road for charging vehicles opens in Sweden
Car-charging smart roads
- eRoads in Sweden (2018)
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- Green (Add)Ventures
- Identify best-practice green ventures -- forward-looking, visionary ideas
- Share these best green ideas as vehicles- and multipliers-of-change
- Green value-adds
- Green value-propositions
- Green game-changing ventures
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GreenPolicy360
- "Greening Our Blue Planet"
- Eco-Check and Away We Go
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Going Solar, Going Green
100% Renewable? On the Way. Going Green / September 16, 2017
- GreenPolicy360 launches Net Zero Energy Policy (take that Irma)
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Florida, the "Sunshine State" begins to go green after years of push back by a legislature influenced by fossil fuel interests and energy companies...
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The Goal? Clean Air, Environmental Quality, Health
Air Mapping: Environmental Monitoring for Health and Safety
● https://www.blog.google/products/maps/lets-clear-air-mapping-our-environment-our-health/
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● https://www.edf.org/airqualitymaps
The Environmental Defense Fund and Google Earth Outreach convened a mobile measurement team to assess air pollution at a level of detail that was nearly impossible before.
Seeing pollution mapped this way makes us better advocates for cleaner air and smart development choices.
Cassandra Ely
Project lead at EDF
● https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Air_Pollution
● https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Air_Quality
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● Volvo Goes Full EV / July 6, 2017
- http://www.futuretimeline.net/blog/2017/07/6.htm -- http://www.nbcnews.com/business/autos/volvo-going-all-electric-first-automaker-ditch-combustion-engine-n779791
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Way Out in Front: Driverless Technology
Automated Vehicles
- Ready or Not, It's Time to Go Green Driving
● https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:EZ10.png
● https://www.engadget.com/2017/06/21/self-driving-shuttles-university-of-michigan/
John Romano / Tampa Bay Times: A recent analysis done by Morgan Stanley asked rhetorically what would be the next $100 billion industry. The answer? Global mobility, i.e. autonomous cars, will be equal to 100 of the next $100 billion industries.
Here's a short and simplified version of how it changes the world:
Transportation will become a product that you use as needed. Instead of driving yourself everywhere and parking your car, you order an autonomous vehicle that drops you off wherever you're going.
Congestion on roads is eased because driverless cars will be more efficient. They'll take better routes, and drive closer to each other...
City planning will change because massive parking lots and garages will no longer be needed. Traffic accidents and fatalities will be greatly reduced, which will change trauma centers and law enforcement workloads. Auto insurance will have to adapt. Gas stations will go out of business as more cars become electric.
Think about how the world changed when automobiles were invented around the start of the 20th century.
Get ready ....
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Wireless/Flash Charging
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● Game-changing Transportation for Cities
- Charge-and-Go Busing in Geneva
- http://new.abb.com/
- (Video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-Fg94A2Vko
- (Video2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fm3_N4Js3Nw
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The goal? Renewable Energy Now
http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Energy
http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Renewable_Energy
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Going Green
- Picture EV Corridors with 21st Century Infrastructure
First Up -- Solar-Charging Stations via BMW and EIGHT Point.One
More Photos/Solar-Powered Charging Stations
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- and...
Quebec, Canada
Electric Car Charging Outlets to be Required in All New Homes
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Smart Homes
- An Approaching Energy Revolution in the Home... and Office
- IoT / Internet of Things
- Energy Efficiency
(2016) -- "Smart Home" is a generic definition of any residence that has appliances, lighting, heating, air conditioning, TVs, computers, entertainment audio & video systems, security, and camera systems that are capable of communicating with one another and can be controlled by computerized systems and remotely by a time schedule, from any room in the home, as well as remotely from any location in the world by phone or internet.
Installation of smart products give the home and its occupants benefits that technology and personal computing have brought since the 1980s. A 'smart systems' approach with homes and offices enables savings of time, money and energy. The add-on extensions to any style of home offer immense choice and variety -- from the most sophisticated, modern building to the hut with solar-power driving lighting at night so children can study and mobile phones can be charged.
Many 'smart home' products are currently available in one of four standard protocols (the means of communication between themselves) and all of these are compatible with the internet, phone, and cell phones. The protocol names of the current four systems are: X10, Z-Wave, UPB and EnOcean.
'Smart Products' that utilize the same protocol offer the ability to add products and hardware at a homeowners pace and budget. The system can grow to meet the needs of a changing families as time goes on. Products can be selected from various manufacturers, preventing expensive obsolescence or non-competitive pricing. Issues such as privacy, 'bugs' and 'hacks', 'malware' and 'viruses' are becoming increasingly serious and are being addressed in new security protocols.
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An emerging important feature of a smart home is conservation of the earth's limited resources.
More and more people are becoming aware of the ability to make their homes truly smart — and green — by utilizing home controllers integrated with all home sub-systems to increase savings by controlling lighting, window coverings, HVAC, irrigation and by monitoring usage.
Many home controllers have built-in monitoring systems whereby they calculate and log usage by all connected devices, giving the home owner heightened awareness and the knowledge to make changes as necessary. These systems can even be accessed over the Internet from anywhere in the world so the homeowner can adjust consumption any time, anywhere.
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Note: Another key element of energy efficiency and other personal benefits comes from the awareness of a home and its landscape in relation to its geo-location and -positioning. For many cultures and over many years, the site of a home/domacile of any type was positioned with a sense of/eye to the prevailing land contours/water flow/seasonal winds and daily arc of the sun.
The concepts of 'feng shui' bring in this sense of environmental awareness, as do simple ideas like 'solar gain' where windows face to the south and design elements take into consideration radiation 'g-values and SHGC values'.
Give attention to the natural world as you build and improve your home and work...
Your place in the world and transportation to and from become special if you make it so.
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EBs as EVs
- Cruisin' with Style
http://www.treehugger.com/bikes/biomega-oko-electric-bike.html
http://inhabitat.com/tag/electric-bikes/
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