Archive for December, 2006
New York Times - Finally, badgered by questions, he says the company is trying hybrid cars and we ve done a lot with compressed natural gas. Oh, and, he says, those brown vehicles you see clogging up the city streets, they are emphatically not trucks. In a
Carbon Neutral: Raising the Ante on Eco-Tourism
New York Times - Its use is perhaps nowhere more prevalent than in the travel industry, where eco-tourism has been steadily gaining momentum over the years, and travelers who are already booking eco-friendly lodging, renting hybrid cars and reusing the towels in
May 2006
Cape Cod Today - We build hybrid cars, install wind farms, grow our own food locally. We stop consuming the worlds resources at such a frenetic pace. We make sure we frame the arguments for the future in the proper terms, that is the survival of the human race. We
Auto Industry Tries To Get Greener
News Channel 10 - But Wilhite said the new technologies present problems of their own — like finding earth-friendly ways to dispose of the batteries that power hybrid cars. More Tax Credits In order to give incentives for people to by hybrids, the president of Toyota
TOKYO: Nissan Motor Co plans to develop and start selling subcompact electric cars powered by self-developed lithium-ion batteries in about three years, the Nihon Keizai (Nikkei) business daily reported yesterday.
UNPROTECTED TEXT: Youth apathy could just be an illusion
I’m not an activist. I’ve never been involved in a protest, never made a picket sign or chanted “Hell no, we won’t go!” I’ve never been tear-gassed or arrested. I’ve never chained myself to a stationary object. Neither have most of my friends. On the surface, it appears that I might proudly wave the flag of apathy in my free time, if I cared enough to do so.
GM Adds Gasoline-Electric Vehicles to Battle Toyota (Update5)
Nov. 29 (Bloomberg) — General Motors Corp. will introduce new hybrid gasoline-electric autos next year to take sales from Toyota Motor Corp., the leader in the fuel-saving technology.
Most important technological innovations
From rubber to the World Wide Web, find out which scientific advances have changed the world.
Let Charge Cards Take The Day Off
Challenging consumers to a self-imposed, 24-hour moratorium on spending today is akin to asking carnivores to swear off turkey on Thanksgiving.
FOX News - Martin noted that General Motors had been in the forefront of the alternative fuel car race in the 1990s, but when California began implementing a zero-emissions vehicles policy, GM abandoned its electric battery car. They thought they would have the Rest of story
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Surf Santa Monica - The endorsement of O Day an environmental executive who owned an alternative fuel car rental business came as more of a surprise. O Day had considered seeking SMRR s endorsement, but did not file his candidate Rest of story
Surf Santa Monica - He does, however, have a business background, having owned an alternative fuel car rental company in Los Angeles before being named executive director of the local non-profit, Environment Now, “Terry has helped the Planning Rest of story
A few weeks ago I saw the movie “Happy Feet” because, to be completely honest, I think penguins are adorable. I was disappointed, however, to find that the liberal agenda was not propagandized nearly enough.
Prices, bread rise together
Bread prices are creeping up as commercial bakeries struggle to cope with high flour and corn sweetener prices.
Conoco’s chief kicks off campaign for credibility
In what sounded like a serious shift in policy, the head of ConocoPhillips Inc. told a Billings audience Tuesday night that his company and the industry have lost touch with consumers and the American public and needs to change their approach to energy development.
The Week in Review
Kappa Force-Fed Minimum Serving Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority recently received a token slap-on-the-wrist punishment following an incident at a house event on October 9, which resulted in the arrests of 11 Kappa members for alcohol related charges. Who says nobody…





