posted by Kevin Spiess @ Neoseeker
http://www.neoseeker.com/news/9145-inexpensive-and-efficient-air-powered-cars-coming-to-us-in-2011/
Hydrogen powered cars might be the next big step up in commuter vehicle efficiency, but they still need a lot more work to really get things rolling. Coming sooner, the Air Car might prove to be a good cost-effective choice for folks who want to spend less on gas.
The [...]
Air-powered Cars Coming to the United States
Monsanto Buys Ethanol Plant in Brazil
Posted by Meredith Niles
Posted at Grist, http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2008/11/10/102649/05?source=food
At a time when many people were questioning causes of the recent food crisis, many more were investigating how our food systems can move forward to sustainably feed the increasing world population. Recently, the U.N. Task Force on Trade, Environment and Development released a report touting the noteworthy yields [...]
A Message for Obama: Think Trains
Posted by STANLEY CROUCH
SYNDICATED COLUMNIST, New York Daily News
As posted at: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/388649_crouchonline21.html
While Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson performs a mysterious magic act in which he shows us what a deregulated bailout looks like, some of us are trying to imagine what President-elect Barack Obama can do to turn our country away from the disastrous and corrupt [...]
GM Must Re-Make the Mass Transit System it Murdered
by Harvey Wasserman
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2008/11/16-6
Bail out General Motors? The people who murdered our mass transit system?
First let them remake what they destroyed.
GM responded to the 1970s gas crisis by handing over the American market to energy-efficient Toyota and Honda.
GM met the rise of the hybrids with “light trucks.”
GM built a small electric car, leased a pilot fleet [...]
Some Good News: AT&T to Install Energy-Saving Software
Author: Jeanette Wiemers, Climate Change Corp
http://www.climatechangecorp.com/content.asp?ContentID=5768
Communications provider AT&T recently launched a new programme on over 300,000 PCs within its organisation to turn the computers off during non-peak hours, saving more than 135 million kilowatt hours of electricity and 123,941 tons of carbon dioxide emissions each year. The power management software from 1E is called NightWatchman, [...]
Toward a Future Coalition: the Green Growth Alliance
By Van Jones
as appears in The Nation
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20081117/jones
My background is in the struggles for racial justice and criminal justice reform. As such, I’ve always felt an affinity for Cinque, the hero of the slave-revolt movie Amistad. In that film, based on a true story, the righteous, enslaved Africans fight back and take over the slave ship.
The people [...]
KBR/Halliburton’s Stanley Pleads Guilty to Corruption Charges
A former Halliburton executive pleaded guilty to orchestrating more than $180m in bribes to Nigerian officials, in a wide-ranging foreign-corruption investigation.
In a wide-ranging foreign-corruption investigation, fired former Halliburton Co. executive Albert J. “Jack” Stanley pleaded guilty to orchestrating more than $180 million in bribes to senior Nigerian government officials. The bribes were used to [...]
GE to collaborate on the construction of a carbon-neutral city
Author: Jeanette Wiemers, ClimateChangeCorp
GE announced last week that it will enter into an $8 billion partnership with Mubadala Development Company of Abu Dhabi, partly in support of the United Arab Emirates’ project to develop a carbon-neutral city. Masdar City will be home to a clean energy technology center–established by both companies–that will research sustainable environmental technologies [...]
