With aggressive emissions and fuel economy standards set for the coming years, automakers feel increased pressure to implement new technologies to produce clean vehicles while struggling to remain competitively priced and accessible to mass market purchases.
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Tesla: Accelerating the Transition to Sustainable Energy
Tesla is accelerating the transition to sustainable energy by launching a more affordable electric car and by acquiring SolarCity
Strong Headwinds for Oil?
The oil & gas industry is vital to our current economy. But what is the future of oil in the context of shifts to renewable energy?
Big Data Could Mean Big Problems
Data centers consume 2% of the US's total energy use. As demand for centralized data storage increases, what can cloud providers like Amazon do to cut their energy use and costs?
Shipping: Global trade’s dirty secret
Shipping plays a key role in global trade, but it is environmentally unregulated and a major contributor of carbon emissions
Challenged Chocolate: The Cocoa Industry and Climate Change
Climate change will decrease cocoa farming productivity in West Africa, shocking the chocolate industry.
Sink or Swim: Saving Florida’s $89.1 Billion Tourism Industry [1]
Can Florida rise to the occasion before the sea-levels do?
Mongolia Mining Corporation: When coal drives the fate of an entire nation
MMC, a leading Mongolian miner of coal, is struggling due to low profits, a high debt burden and is both intrinsically and extrinsically motivated to maximise production volumes. Its success in growing production and profits will impact the development trajectory of the entire Mongolian nation.
The “Hot War”: How Will the Department of Defense Fight a Warming Planet?
How will the Department of Defense win the “Hot War” of the 21st Century? By taking the offensive.
Royal Dutch Shell: Oil and Gas for Environmental Sustainability?
Is Shell going to adapt to environmental change or become obsolete?