By: Patty L. Buchanan Image by: Driveelectricweek.org [Editor’s Note: This is the fourth post in a series of articles about Electric Vehicles marking Croton100’s participation in National Drive Electric Week, September 26-October 4, 2020.] The extreme weather events roiling the West, blowing down trees and buildings across the prairies and flooding the lowlands in the United States are a glimmer…
Give Carbon a Seat at the Table
By: Chandu Visweswariah [Editor’s note: This is the third in a series of articles about Electric Vehicles marking Croton100’s observation of National Drive Electric Week, September 26 to October 4, 2020.] We live in a topsy-turvy world. Increasingly, from world affairs to local matters, we put the cart before the horse, opinion is more important than fact, echo chambers serve…
Our House is on Fire and the School is Buying Another Gas Bus
By: Patty L. Buchanan [Editor’s note: This is the second in a series of articles about Electric Vehicles marking Croton100’s observation of National Drive Electric Week, September 26 to October 4, 2020.] Here are a few of this week’s news headlines: “The Effects of Climate Change, Including Wildfires, Threaten U.S. Financial Markets, a Federal Report Found,” “Wildfires and Extreme Weather…
Greening Our Space
By: Bill Stoiber In last year’s hit movie “Marriage Story” Adam Driver, a transplanted New Yorker, is informed: “You can actually have space in LA!”. Here in Yorktown, maybe that “space” is taken for granted, but, more often than not, if one is a homeowner, one’s living area might be mapped out by that most basic of suburban expediencies: the…
Our Car Lexicon is Changing
By: Chandu Visweswariah [Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of articles about Electric Vehicles marking Croton100’s observation of National Drive Electric Week, September 26 to October 4, 2020.] Something profound is happening right in front of our eyes. Our very language around the topic of cars is changing. Gone are the days when you can tell a…
