Japan’s CO2 emissions per GDP are among the lowest of industrial countries at .24kg CO2/US$ (IAEA) Hybrid car sales amount to well under a million cars a year, or less than 1% of world demand. J.P. Morgan analysts forecast that hybrids will reach 13% of global automobile sales in 2020. (Fortune Magazine, Special Advertising Section [...]
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July 10th, 2009 
Justin Manger Volvo Cars claims it was the world’s first car maker to introduce EPIs (Environmental Product Information) for cars (in 1998). Idling a [gasoline] car engine for more than 10 seconds emits more pollution than turning it off and back on again. – Honolulu Advertiser 6/15/2009 3 billion gallons (11 billion liters) of vegetable oil are [...]
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July 3rd, 2009 Justin Manger The five “greenest” cities in the U.S., according to Popular Science: 1) Portland, OR 2) San Francisco, CA 3) Boston, MA 4) Oakland, CA 5) Eugene, OR Americans buy 28 billion single-serving plastic water bottles every year, and 80% of those end up in landfills, according to the Container Recycling Institute. Recycling one ton (2000 [...]
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June 26th, 2009 Justin Manger 323,439 kilowatt hours are wasted every minute by inefficient home energy use. (IBM) With little or no intelligence to balance loads or monitor power flows, enough electricity is lost annually to power India, Germany and Canada for an entire year, according to IBM. If the U.S. grid alone were just 5% more efficient, it would [...]
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June 19th, 2009 Eric Wilson In San Jose, California, three private partners will produce 900,000 gallons of biogas using German technology and 150,000 metric tons of organic waste generated by San Jose residents (source: New York Times). Puget Sound Energy, the electricity provider for the Seattle, Washington region, gets 42% of its total electricity production from hydro-power. New York City [...]
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