A Toyota Prius converted to plug-in hybrid power by Duke Energy. Duke and another utility, the FPL Group, announced this week that by 2020 all new purchases of fleet vehicles for the two companies will be plug-in hybrid or all-electric.
From our friends at the Wheels blog:
To take off, the emerging electric vehicle market will ...read more
Reuters “These are big sea changes,” said Alan E. Salzman, the chief executive of VantagePoint, a venture capital firm, referring to the market’s shift from hydrogen cars to electric cars.
The enthusiasm for electric vehicles keeps growing, but only few years ago the auto industry was betting on hydrogen-powered fuel cell cars.
That led to ...read more
Juan Gonzalez talks with Lori Wallach about the G20 is hosting the leaders of many of the most powerful nations with a strong focus on financial reform and Climate Change. Sadly the rules that are being enforced at the WTO contradicts what the G20 leaders are calling for. Unless their is a change the Financial ...read more
Like a tractor driven by a drunk, the Obama administration keeps zigzagging on food/ag policy-sometimes veering in the direction of progressive change, other times whipping back toward the agrichemical status quo.
In the last couple of days, there's been a sharp turn toward the status quo. As I reported yesterday, Obama plucked Islam “Isi” Siddiqui from ...read more
Josh Tickell, the man behind the fantastic, award-winning Fuel film (now in theaters) has been traveling the country in Mr. Algaeus, an algae-powered plug-in hybrid Prius. Tickell and team have visited lawmakers in Washington and many other groups, trying to get the word out about clean transportation. They took an electric bike along for the ...read more
Coyote Springs Land Company And a new home for solar power.
What to do when building a 159,000-home city in the Nevada desert and the housing market collapses?
Go solar.
The Coyote Springs Land Company this week expanded a deal with BrightSource Energy, a solar power developer based in Oakland, Calif., to carve out 12 square miles ...read more
When it comes to reducing CO2, we almost always talk about power plants and vehicles. But a new study by the EPA (pdf) shows that, if you consider the whole life-cycle, a huge chunk of greenhouse gas emissions (42%) are caused by the way people in the US “procure, produce, deliver and dispose of goods ...read more
Reuters Smoke rises from the Belchatow power plant in Poland — Europe’s largest coal-fired power plant. Prompted by a court ruling, the European Commission said Wednesday it would come up with new plans regarding carbon emissions for Estonia and Poland.
A court on Wednesday said Poland and Estonia could challenge limits placed by the European ...read more
Five years ago a pregnant Sarah Beatty was busy feathering her nest when a shocking environmental health scare proved her home to be toxic. Angry but empowered, Beatty began her quest to find healthy, safe home products yet quickly realized that there was limited access to these sorts of things, especially on the east coast. ...read more
This just came across the wires from the UK's Western Mail:
A British-built steam supercar broke a 103-year-old world land speed record for steam-powered vehicles in the United States yesterday.
The 25ft-long British Steam Car - nicknamed the “fastest kettle in the world” - reached an average speed of 139.843mph on two runs over a measured mile ...read more
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