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| Frustrated Owners Try To Unload Their Guzzlers
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| posted on Wednesday, May 07, 2008
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Americans are turning away from the boxy, four-wheel-drive vehicles
that have for years dominated the nation's highways. Sport utility
vehicles and pickup trucks - symbols of Americans' obsession with
horsepower, size, and status - are falling out of favor as consumers
rich and poor encounter sticker shock at the pump, paying upward of $80
to fill gas tanks.
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| Preparing For Hard Times
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| posted on Monday, May 05, 2008
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For three years, my husband has talked about taking to the hills. About
buying a smallholding on Exmoor where, with our four-year-old daughter,
we can safely survive the coming storm -- famine, pestilence and a
total breakdown of society. I would wait for his lectures to finish,
then return to my own interests. I had no time for the end of
civilisation. As an editor on a glossy magazine until a few months ago,
I was too busy. There was always a new Anya Hindmarch bag to buy, or a
George Clooney premiere to attend. But recently, I've wavered. Much of what he has been predicting has
come true: global economic meltdown, looming environmental disaster, a
sharp rise in oil and food prices that has already led to the rationing
of rice in the US, and riots in dozens of countries worldwide.
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| The 'No More Gas' Car
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| posted on Thursday, May 01, 2008
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With a name like ‘No More Gas’, you can bet that this cute little
personal electric vehicle is as good to the environment as it is to the
user. Its size, weight and fuel make it much better for the planet,
while its look and driving experience make it great fun for the driver.
Looking like it’s dropped straight out of an episode of The Jetsons,
this tiny car can achieve speeds of over 75mph for a cost of $0.02 per
mile. All this eco-goodness earned Myers Motors’ NmG vehicle kudos at
this year’s Well-Tech Awards exhibit in Milan.
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| How Many Earth Days Do We Have Left?
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| posted on Friday, April 25, 2008
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The four overriding goals of PLAN B 3.0 are to stabilize climate and
population, eradicate poverty, and restore the earth's damaged
ecosystems. Failure to reach any one of these goals will likely mean
failure to reach the others as well.
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| Food Prices Rising Across The World
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| posted on Thursday, March 27, 2008
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If you're seeing your grocery bill go up, you're not alone. From subsistence farmers eating rice in Ecuador to gourmets feasting on
escargot in France, consumers worldwide face rising food prices in what
analysts call a perfect storm of conditions. Freak weather is a factor.
But so are dramatic changes in the global economy, including higher oil
prices, lower food reserves and growing consumer demand in China and
India.
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| Top 10 2008 Hybrids
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| posted on Wednesday, March 26, 2008
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Hybrid rankings have often been simplistic: Most are little more than
lists of the highest-mileage models on the market. Here, we ranked
hybrids based on how much fuel savings they get when compared to their
non-hybrid version, as well as how much all that saved gas is going to
cost you. Examinations that compare hybrids to "comparably equipped"
versions miss an important point. Hybrids are almost always among the
most expensive trim levels, if not the most costly, but our premise is
that you're looking for efficiency first, followed closely by price.
This isn't about acceleration, so the hybrids are compared to the
lowest-priced, most-efficient gas-only trim level in their model line.
Our rankings take into account the hybrid's mileage and price premium,
in percent, as well as its suggested retail price. This gives
less-expensive models a boost while penalizing more-expensive ones.
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| The Ten Best Ultimate Post-Apocalyptic Survival Vehicles
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| posted on Thursday, February 28, 2008
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We asked you what you think the best post-apocalyptic vehicle would be,
assuming you could fuel it up and were unable to stay in one place due
to the lack of other resources (and likely abundance of radioactive
zombies looking for a tasty brain to munch upon). The response we
received from commenters was phenomenal. We've culled the comments down
to our ten top responses...
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| The Wisdom Of Designing Cradle To Cradle
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| posted on Tuesday, February 26, 2008
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Architect and designer William McDonough asks what our buildings and
products would look like if designers took into account "All children,
all species, for all time." A tireless proponent of absolute
sustainability (with a deadpan sense of humor), he explains his
philosophy of "cradle to cradle" design, which bridge the needs of
ecology and economics. He also shares some of his most inspiring work,
including the world's largest green roof (at the Ford plant in
Dearborn, Michigan), and the entire sustainable cities he's designing
in China.
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| The 14 Grand Engineering Challenges Of The 21st Century
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| posted on Monday, February 18, 2008
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The panel of 18 engineers, technologists and futurists included Google
co-founder Larry Page and genomics pioneer J. Craig Venter. They spent
more than a year pondering how best to improve life on Earth and came
up with 14 Grand Engineering Challenges, a list the National Academy of
Engineering <http://vivo.aaas.org/> deemed so momentous it should
be capitalized.
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