This week the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) Standards have popped up in a few posts. One dealt with the increase in fuel economy for passenger cars and the other for heavy trucks and buses. The following facts come from these articles: American businesses who operate and own these commercial vehicles will save approximately $50 [...]
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Five Friday Facts: CAFE Standards
August 12th, 2011 
Eric Wilson Five Friday Facts: Cars in European Life
August 5th, 2011 Justin Manger Many American cities are taking a car-centric approach to improving traffic flow and accommodate drivers. Across the pond, Europe is using a different tactic: creating environments openly hostile to cars. The aim is to make car use expensive and inconvenient so that people choose more environmentally friendly modes of transportation. Here’s a look at some [...]
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Tags: Bike Sharing, Carbon Dioxide, Carless Cities, Cars, Public Transit 
No Comments »Five Friday Facts: Land and Water (Continued)
July 29th, 2011 Eric Wilson Last week’s Five Friday Facts came courtesy of Lester Brown’s Plan B 4.0, which was published in 2009. The following facts come from the same chapter, “Population Pressure: Land and Water” as last week’s. The book is available in print or as a downloadable PDF from The Earth Policy Institute’s website. For previous Five Friday [...]
Posted in Agriculture, China, Energy Efficiency, Eric Wilson, Five Friday Facts, Transportation Tags: Bio-fuels, Biodiesel, CAFE Standards, Plan B 4.0, Water No Comments »Five Friday Facts: Land and Water
July 22nd, 2011 Eric Wilson The following facts come from the second chapter – “Population Pressure: Land and Water” – of Lester Brown’s Plan B 4.0, which was published in 2009. The book is available in print or as a downloadable PDF from The Earth Policy Institute’s website. For previous Five Friday Facts from Plan B 4.0, click here. On [...]
Posted in Agriculture, Behavior, Eric Wilson, Five Friday Facts Tags: Food, Plan B 4.0, Water No Comments »Five Friday Facts: Road Construction
July 15th, 2011 Eric Wilson The following Five Friday Facts come via an article written by Derek Singleton of SoftwareAdvice.com. Each year, we spend roughly 7 percent of our Gross Domestic Product (GDP) on transportation infrastructure. For fiscal year 2010, that amounted to nearly $1 trillion. A key input to these costs is the amount of asphalt we use. A [...]
Five Friday Facts
July 8th, 2011 Eric Wilson The following facts come from Lester Brown’s Plan B 4.0, which was published in 2009. The book is available in print or as a downloadable PDF from The Earth Policy Institute’s website. For all of the Five Friday Facts culled from Plan B 4.0, click here. Denmark gets more than 20% of its electricity from [...]
Posted in China, Eric Wilson, Five Friday Facts, Renewable Energy Tags: Denmark, Geothermal, Plan B 4.0, Solar Energy, Water, Wind Power No Comments »Five Friday Facts: U.S. Smart Grid
July 1st, 2011 Eric Wilson This set of Five Friday Facts comes as a follow up to a recent post on the Obama Admistration’s Smart Grid Policy. The following facts all come from the government’s Policy Framework for the 21st Century Grid: The National Academy of Engineering named electrification the greatest engineering achievement of the 20th century (NAE 2003). There [...]
Posted in Energy Efficiency, Eric Wilson, Five Friday Facts, Japan, President Obama, Smart Grid Tags: Battery No Comments »Five Friday Facts: Chinese Wind Energy
June 24th, 2011 Eric Wilson As a follow up to last week’s Five Friday Facts, this rendition focuses on China’s capacity to generate electricity from wind power. This week’s facts come from the Global Wind Energy Council. According to the third National Wind Energy Resources Census, China’s total exploitable capacity for both land-based and offshore wind energy is around 700-1,200 [...]
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