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Cars sure do drive better and look a lot nicer than this 1985 model, but overall, they have the same fuel economy standards. Photo courtesy of Flickr.
The US ranks at the bottom of the list for fuel economy standards, according to this News.com story.
U.S. fuel-efficiency requirements for passenger cars have been stuck at 27.5 miles per [...]
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A consortium led by the University of Delaware has created a device that has broken a new record for efficiency in converting sunlight into electricity. The device turns 42.8 percent of light that hits it into electricity. The previous record was 40.7 percent, from December 2006.
Read more at the News.com news blog, and at the [...]
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A recent article about a study by the Trust for Public Land reveals the cities that have the most land protected for parks and open space. The study looked at which large cities in the U.S. devote the most land area by percentage to parks and preserves. Albuquerque, New Mexico came in [...]
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From flickr.
Yesterday I shared a tip from a homeowner who suggested reducing attic temperature by opening the home’s garage attic door and the garage door itself. The idea is that you create an upward draw of air that lowers the attic’s temperature.
While this works, an expert suggested to me today that doing such could affect the quality of [...]
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Smog, from epa.gov .
The New York Times published a popular story this week about the growing number of problems outdoor exercisers are experiencing due to air pollution.
Kenneth Rundell, the director of the Human Performance Laboratory at Marywood University in Scranton, Pa., said, “Athletes typically take in 10 to 20 times as much air,” and thus pollutants, [...]
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Photo courtesy of Flickr.
There are no serious plans for any new nuclear power plants in the United States. (After the recent reactor leak in Japan, I’m sure that’s a relief to a lot of people.)
And there is growing resistance to building new coal plants throughout the United States, according to today’s Wall Street Journal.
Natural gas [...]
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Photo courtesty of Flickr.
China seems like such a long way away, doesn’t it? It’s halfway around the globe from the United States.
Yet on some days, up to one third of the air over San Francisco and Los Angeles can be directly traced back to Asia. And that one third of air is responsible for three [...]
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Not so beautiful, considering that Americans use 100 billion of them each year.I recently read a news story about how San Francisco is considering a ban of plastic bags. The city estimates that it spends $8 million a year cleaning up bags blown into telephone wires and trees, and that more than a million sea [...]
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Although the epic outdoor grilling of the 4th of July has come and gone, it’s not too late to think about cleaning up your BBQ cooking technique. The Sierra Club has made it easy with a series of articles on green, eco-friendly grilling.
First, you should definitely check out their list of resources [...]
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Photo courtesy of caterina on Flickr.
The Wrightspeed X1 electric race car lacks the polish of a Tesla (as you would expect with a prototype), but it has plenty of speed! 0 to 60 mph in 3 seconds is faster than just about any production sports car available, except for an extremely expensive gas powered Bugatti.
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