What’s Up with the Electric Vehicle Adoption Curve?
Here, my colleague Jon Lesage presents another installment of his Green Auto Digest, this one centered around the ACT Expo (Advanced Clean Transportation), held in Long Beach, CA last week. It was wonderful to see Jon again; it’s good that we run into each other frequently at events like this.
As Jon covered in this newsletter, the cumulative year-to-date totals for auto sales in the United States suggest that plug-in electric vehicles are 0.7% of the total in the U.S. year-to-date. (more…)
I know there were those who doubted the overall premise of my most recent book: “
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Although some schools of business thought see environmental standards as a burden, used properly to achieve optimal sustainability, they can help a business continue on a profitable road indefinitely. That’s because the sustainable choice ensures the business continually has the needed amount of natural resources. 
Smart technology has revolutionized how people communicate with each other and use the internet via their smart phones. However, it has far more applications than that. Below are just some of the ways smart home technology can make your home more energy efficient. 
At the ACTExpo (alternative fuel vehicle show) that I attended yesterday, it was gratifying to see so many manufacturers of large trucks sticking with compressed natural gas, even in the face of seriously low diesel prices. Maybe it’s just inertia, or the high probability of future hikes in diesel prices. Or maybe we’re talking about people who care about the environment; it’s impossible to know, but we like to think the best of people.
Here’s an awkward situation: I’m staying the night today at the house of a friend who, I just learned, will be throwing a party celebrating Donald Trump’s nomination. Of course, my position on Trump is the same as that of journalist David Brooks, who wrote:
