Question: By what percentage did EV sales grow in the U.S. last year (2018, over 2017)? Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers.
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Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: Reducing Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT) with Public Transportation
Question: What country just became the world’s first to reduce VMT with free public transportation?
Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: EPA on Obama-Era Mercury Emissions from Coal Plants
Question: What are the three most dangerous effects to human health that derive from ingesting/inhaling the mercury that gets into the food supply and atmosphere from coal plant emissions?
Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: Plastic in the Ocean
Question: Which major beer brand just announced its switch to a 100% biodegradable substance, made from a mix of by-product waste and compostable materials, to form the rings that hold six-packs together?
Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: Losing the Amazon
Question: At what rate are we losing the Amazon rain forest, in terms of acres per hour?
Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: What Happens Upstairs
Question: The aircraft we come in contact with on a day-to-day basis flies in the troposphere, i.e., under about 50,000 feet. Are there aircraft that function in the layer above that, i.e., the stratosphere? If so, how are they powered and …
Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: Destroying the Amazon
Question: The far-right nationalist Jair Bolsonaro, now president-elect of Brazil, said he will lift existing restrictions on land development. In what year did Brazil require all landowners to keep a percentage of their terrain forested–ranging from 20% in some parts of the country …
Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency
Question: What two things did the EPA call for elimination of earlier today?
Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: Germany Putting Spear Through Coal
Question: How many people from across Europe gathered near the Hambacher Forest in western Germany on Saturday to defend the area from the expansion of coal-fired energy and demand much more ambitious climate action? Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy …
Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: U.S. Federal Government May Be Aggressively Destroying the Environment, but U.S. Cities Sure Aren’t
Question: How many U.S. cities have pledged to go to 100% renewables for their sources of electricity in the next few years? What’s the most recent one? Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers.
