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What About those EV Batteries?

3/31/2022

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By Maurice Carter, Sustainable Newton Marketing & Communications Director
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We've gone from no one paying attention to the electric vehicle battery supply chain to everyone freaking out about it. 

Not long ago, nickel was a coin, cobalt was a paint color, and lithium was a drug used to treat certain mood disorders.  You might have heard of lithium-ion batteries, but they weren't something sold from a rack in the checkout line at your drug store.  Even if there was one inside your cellphone, you couldn't get inside to touch it.

Electric vehicles (EVs) changed that.  Or, rather, America's late-to-the-party-gotta-catch-up embrace of EVs coupled with global supply chain issues have made batteries fodder for headlines like these:


  • CNBC:  How a global nickel shortage could disrupt the electric vehicle industry
  • Axios:  Ukraine crisis clouds global EV rollout
  • CNN:  How a battery shortage could threaten US national security
  • New York Times:  The Lithium Gold Rush:  Inside the Race to Power Electric Vehicles

Locally, public reaction for and against Rivian's planned assembly plant near Rutledge, Georgia has placed an even sharper edge on concerns raised by global events like the war in Ukraine.


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Driving Down Carbon Isn't So Hard

1/16/2021

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By Maurice Carter, Sustainable Newton President
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For our 2021 virtual kickoff Friday morning, we visited with Ray C. Anderson Foundation Executive Director John A. Lanier to discuss the Drawdown Georgia initiative.  John gave us a hope-filled, inspiring look at the country's only state-centered climate action program.  If you missed it, please take time to view the replay.

Sustainable Newton is committed to doing all we can to promote the Drawdown Georgia effort and bring its 20 carbon-reduction solutions to households, businesses, and local governments in Newton County. 

Starting a new year is the perfect time to assess what personal changes I can make towards "bringing climate solutions home," as they say at Drawdown Georgia.  Across the five key solution sectors (Electricity, Buildings and Materials, Food and Agriculture, Land Sinks, and Transportation), there are feasible actions we can each take to contribute to the overall 46 megaton carbon-reduction goal for the program.  (Each megaton is one million tons.)


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