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Tesla is Now the World’s Most Valuable Automaker

18/6/2020

 
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​Even in the midst of a pandemic, Tesla continues to reach new heights.
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The company, which began as a problem-plagued upstart a little over 15 years ago, has now become the world’s most valuable automaker – surpassing industry giants such as Toyota and Volkswagen.

This milestone comes after a year of steady growth, which only hit a speed bump earlier this year due to COVID-19’s negative impact on new car sales. Despite these headwinds, Tesla’s valuation has jumped by an impressive 375% since this time last year.

How does Tesla’s value continue to balloon, despite repeated cries that the company is overvalued? Will shortsellers declare a long-awaited victory, or is there still open road ahead?

By Nick Routley, via Visualcapitalist - full article here.

Discover how architects, artists and designers are responding today to some of the most urgent ecological issues of our times.

17/1/2020

 
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From climate change to species extinction and resource depletion, the damaging effects of modern life are more tangible than ever. Eco-Visionaries examines humankind’s impact on the planet and presents innovative approaches that reframe our relationship with nature. Through film, installation, architectural models and photography, the works in this exhibition interrogate how architecture, art and design are reacting to a rapidly changing world, beyond mainstream notions of sustainability.

​This timely exhibition brings together international practitioners including Olafur Eliasson Hon RA, Ant Farm, Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, Andrés Jaque, Tue Greenfort, Unknown Fields, Rimini Protokoll, Virgil Abloh and WORKac, amongst others. Their provocative responses are a wake-up call, urging us to acknowledge and become conscious of our impact on our environment.

Eco-Visionaries is a project initiated by Fundação EDP/MAAT (Lisbon, Portugal), Bildmuseet (Umeå, Sweden), HeK (Basel, Switzerland) and LABoral (Gijón, Spain), in collaboration with the Royal Academy of Arts (London, UK) and Matadero Madrid (Madrid, Spain).


Read more here.

Wood Wide Web: New Global Map to Assess Climate Change

17/1/2020

 
Wood Wide Web: New global map to assess climate changeTrees are connected by an underground network of fungi that provide them with nutrients and help share resources between neighbouring trees. This system has been nicknamed the Wood Wide Web.
Now a team of scientists, including Tom Crowther from ETH Zurich and Brian Steidinger from Stanford University, have mapped this network on a global scale. Dr Crowther explains how the new model could help predict and assess climate change, as well as aid forest managers in the restoration of woodlands around the world.

See original article here. Further reading here.

Fight Climate Change For Free With Every Web Search

6/1/2020

 
​Plant trees while you search the web! Ecosia use the profit they make from your searches to plant trees where they are needed most, helping to fight climate change as well as provide other positive ecosystem services. So far Ecosia have planted over 79,000,000 trees at over 9,000 sites. Switch your search engine to ecosia.org or get the free browser extension and plant trees with every search. Find out more here.
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See how well your country is fulfilling its obligations in the fight against climate change using the Climate Change Performance Index

6/1/2020

 
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The CCPI is an independent monitoring tool of countries’ climate protection performance. It aims to enhance transparency in international climate politics and enables the comparability of climate protection efforts and progress made by individual countries.
  • The ranking results are defined by a country’s aggregated performance in 14 indicators within the four categories “GHG Emissions”, “Renewable Energy” and “Energy Use”, as well as on “Climate Policy”, in a globally unique policy section of the index.
  • The CCPI 2020 results illustrate the main regional differences in climate protection and performance within the 57 evaluated countries and the EU. Still no country performs well enough in all index categories to achieve an overall very high rating in the index. Therefore, once again the first three ranks remain empty. 
  • In this year’s index, Sweden leads the ranking on rank 4, followed by Denmark (5) and Morocco (6). The bottom five in this year’s CCPI are Islamic Republic of Iran (57), Republic of Korea (58), Chinese Taipei (59), Saudi Arabia (60) and the United States (61), rated low or very low across almost all categories.
​Find out more here 
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