Tools and Toolkits

Diesel

Toolkit: Green the Fleet – Cities & Counties

Green the Fleet: Speed the Transition to ZEV Local Government Fleets.
Fleets make up a small percentage of vehicles on the road, but represent an outsized share of vehicle miles traveled, and therefore emissions.
Diesel medium and heavy duty vehicles make up a disproportionate percentage of municipal fleets, and
Diesel emissions have an outsized impact on health and the climate.

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Carbon Capture and Storage

The Carbon Capture Scam

Food and Water Watch: Fossil fuel executives hope you’ll believe in their newest scheme — “CCS.” Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is the fossil fuel industry’s biggest scheme yet to persuade people that the climate crisis can be solved while still depending on what they’re selling.

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Clean Indoor Air

How to Make Your Own DIY Air Purifier

Check out this guide from Common Humanity Collective on how to make your own effective DIY Air Purifier with just a standard box fan, a filter, and a couple other supplies. Instructions in English and Spanish! (Instrucciones en ingles y español)

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Environmental Justice

Jemez Principles for Democratic Organizing

On December 6-8, 1996, forty people of color and European-American representatives met in Jemez, New Mexico, for the “Working Group Meeting on Globalization and Trade.” The Jemez meeting was hosted by the Southwest Network for Environmental and Economic Justice with the intention of hammering out common understandings between participants from different cultures, politics and organizations. The following “Jemez Principles” for democratic organizing were adopted by the participants.

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Just and Clean Transportation

Why the automotive future is electric

That hum in the distance is the sound of the concept of mobility changing—for the better. While challenges to the electrification of the vehicle parc persist, opportunities worth fighting for also lay ahead. This is particularly evident in cities, where

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Blog

How clean are Electric Cars?

Quick Answer-87% cleaner with renewable electricity! This question is one that I have been trying to answer since I bought an EV in 2011.  My last answer was in 2015 where I produced this table based on data from the

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