![]() ![]() For 2022, the firms involved in the mining and manufacturing for those accounted for 27% of Tesla’s total emissions, reports Quartz.But the supply side isn’t the only thing to consider as we think about EVs and making the future work. And such “Scope 3” emissions – including those of suppliers – represented the deepest part of the product line’s carbon footprint.Batteries are a big factor. But this time, in Tesla’s report, it was part of the tally. ![]() What should we make of a recent report from carmaker Tesla reminding us that, even though its cars have no tailpipes, there are significant carbon emissions associated with getting them built and on the road?It’s worth thinking about, though there’s a lot more at play when it comes to electric vehicles and CO2 emissions.The vast network needed to supply raw materials and component parts for EVs makes for difficult accounting. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() This allowed her to dictate the terms of her contracts―power she seized and consolidated. Griffith's Biograph Company, and became almost unimaginably popular. ![]() She switched from stage to film at seventeen, joining D.W. Born in Toronto in 1892, Pickford began acting as a child. In reality, Pickford was a towering figure in movie history, central to the evolution of film acting and the development of the Hollywood motion picture industry. That's how most people remember Mary Pickford. A woman who played children, wide-eyed and gamine, skipping about in frills and long curls. "A knockout of a biography."―Newsweek A silent-film star. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Noah quickly realizes that dating in real life isn’t the same as crafting idealized meet cutes. The only way to save his blog is to convince everyone that the stories are true, but how? Then Drew walks into Noah’s life, and the pieces fall into place: Drew is willing to fake-date Noah to save the Diary. When a troll exposes the Diary as fiction, Noah’s world unravels. What started as a trans boy’s daydreams has grown into a blog with thousands of devoted, hopeful followers. There’s just one problem: all the stories are fake. He has to be for his popular blog, the Meet Cute Diary, a collection of trans meet cutes. Noah Ramirez thinks he’s an expert on romance. In this own voices rom-com debut, a transgender teen must decide if he’s dedicated to romantic formulas or open to unpredictable love after an internet troll attack on his blog compels him and a fan to start fake dating. ![]() ![]() This is a shattering book, imagined with startling emotional precision and generosity. I might have changed up the ending a bit, but it didn't detract from my enjoyment." ![]() The story of a child and a hit-and-run accident from the perspectives of the child's father, his mother, and the hit-and-run driver. This is an astonishing tale of love and loss, rage and redemption, that is as suspenseful as it is emotionally compelling. As these two men’s lives unravel, RESERVATION ROAD moves to its startling conclusion. Dwight, a man at once fleeing his crime and hoping to get caught, wrestles with overwhelming guilt and his sense of obligation to his son. Ethan, a respected professor of literature at a small New England college, is wracked by an obsession with revenge that threatens to tear his family apart. Two haunted men and their families are engulfed by the emotions surrounding an unexpected and horrendous death. A powerful and affecting novel.” –The New York Times A tragic accident sets in motion a cycle of violence and retribution in John Burnham Schwartz’s riveting novel RESERVATION ROAD. ![]() ![]() But I was still excited to try Elektra, as it’s about the Trojan War, which I’m already familiar with. I own Jennifer Saint’s prior book, Ariadne, but I haven’t gotten around to it yet (for various reasons). But can she escape the curse, or is her own destiny also bound by violence? The youngest daughter of Clytemnestra and Agamemnon, Elektra is horrified by the bloodletting of her kin. She is powerless in her knowledge that the city will fall. Princess of Troy, and cursed by Apollo to see the future but never to be believed when she speaks of it. Her husband raises a great army against them and determines to win, whatever the cost. The sister of Helen, wife of Agamemnon – her hopes of averting the curse are dashed when her sister is taken to Troy by the feckless Paris. ![]() This is the story of three women, their fates inextricably tied to this curse, and the fickle nature of men and gods. A bloodline tainted by a generational cycle of violence and vengeance. ![]() ![]() ![]() While the author's handwriting is very legible, having the typed pages makes it easier to read the contents of each letter before turning the page for the more visual experience. The following page moves on to the next letter, etc. The book is formatted (assuming no change from the advanced reading copy to the point at which it is published) as first a page with a type-written letter, enhanced with quotes that range from literary to pop culture inspired, then the following page is a colorful copy of the original letter, which was hand-painted and hand-written by the author. The book is a compilation of 140 of these letters that span from 2012-2020. At its core, Dear Paris is perhaps best categorized as epistolary, illustrated travelogue pulled together as a 'best of' MacLeod's deocrative letters that first gained her a broader audience. I fell in love all over again - with Paris, with the intrinsic beauty of a hand-written letter, and with MacLeod's artful rendering of her experiences, which feel both universal and authentically personal.īut first, I need to explain the unique format (genre?) of this book. It delivered me - no postage required - to my first and only trip to Paris, circa April 2019. ![]() ![]() Dear Paris swept me off of my home-bound feet (in this, the era of COVID). ![]() ![]() ![]() When she becomes pregnant, she must navigate all this. She sees the spirits that surround her, and the immense power that dwarfs all of us. She knows the ravages of alcohol, and violence at the hands of those she should be able to trust. She knows the tedium of the everyday world, and the raw, amoral power of the ice and sky, the seductive energy of the animal world. She knows boredom, and listlessness, and bullying. She knows joy, and friendship, and parents’ love. In the end, there may be no difference between them. 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But my instinct told me that there were stirring times ahead.įrom the dining room on my left there came the rattle of teacups and the short, dry cough of my sister Caroline.Īn unnecessary question, since who else could it be? To tell the truth, it was precisely my sister Caroline who was the cause of my few minutes’ delay. ![]() I am not going to pretend that at that moment I foresaw the events of the next few weeks. To tell the truth, I was considerably upset and worried. I opened the front door with my latchkey, and purposely delayed a few moments in the hall, hanging up my hat and the light overcoat that I had deemed a wise precaution against the chill of an early autumn morning. It was just a few minutes after nine when I reached home once more. I was sent for at eight o’clock on the morning of Friday the 17th. Ferrars died on the night of the 16th-17th September-a Thursday. 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Myra herself is tethered to the Mansion by mysteries she can’t understand-rooms that appear and disappear overnight, music that plays in its corridors.Īcross the country, Alex Rakes, the scion of a custom furniture business, encounters two Mansion fans trying to recreate a room. Myra’s stories have created legions of fans who breathlessly await every blog post, trade photographs of Mansion-modeled rooms, and swap theories about the enigmatic and reclusive author. A woman learns to expand the boundaries of her small world and let love inside it in this sparkling and unforgettable novel by Audrey Burges.įrom her attic in the Arizona mountains, thirty-four-year-old Myra Malone blogs about a dollhouse mansion that captivates thousands of readers worldwide. ![]() |