Transportation:
Plug-in Prius' powered with lithium-ion batteries are the latest innovation to test conventional thinking on car design. The car is either a harbinger of a far more fuel-efficient future, or another in a long line of technological insurgencies that will...
Posted on August 7, 2007 02:53 PM • 1 Comments •
Computer geeks and tree-hugging environmentalists driving the electron-powered vehicles are starting to kick some major rear end. Scotty Pollacheck and his bike -- dubbed the KillaCycle -- are part of a growing movement that's exploiting breakthroughs in battery technology and...
Posted on August 1, 2007 12:26 PM • 1 Comments •
Swearing to remove the gridlock paralyzing Sacramento, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger swept into office as a man of vision and reform. Among his many broad promises with wide voter appeal was overhauling California's high way and transportation system. So what happended?...
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Posted on July 24, 2007 11:43 AM • 0 Comments •
Plug-in cars are seen by many as the next big step in environmentally friendly automotive technology. Achieving maximum air quality improvements comes with two caveats a significant cut in the pollution produced by electric utilities and the large-scale adoption of...
Posted on July 20, 2007 12:01 PM • 5 Comments •
Car Free Day is just one of the ways that Enrique Peñalosa, the mayor of Bogota, has helped to transform a city once infamous for narco-terrorism, pollution and chaos into an globally lauded model of livability and urban renewal. His...
Posted on June 25, 2007 11:45 AM • 1 Comments •
Bob Teixeira decided it was time to take a stand against U.S. dependence on foreign oil. So last fall the Charlotte musician and guitar instructor spent $1,200 to convert his 1981 diesel Mercedes to run on vegetable oil. He bought...
Posted on June 12, 2007 03:45 PM • 3 Comments •
In a high-stakes showdown over proposed fuel-efficiency standards, the auto industry is playing its ace: the "safety" card. In radio ads and over the Internet, it's pushing a message that implies that tougher standards will force automakers to make smaller...
Posted on June 12, 2007 03:29 PM • 2 Comments •
Ports are grimy places. Cutting pollution on the waterfront is an important part of the effort to cut smog and greenhouse-gas emissions. According to New York City's estimate, waterborne transportation represents 8 percent of its overall emissions. It's far higher...
Posted on June 7, 2007 12:02 PM • 0 Comments •
As a train rolls into the history books, a vital green corridor for wildlife on Korea's densely poplulated penninsula may be coming to an end. The two Koreas took a long-planned step towards reconciliation today when trains crossed the demilitarized...
Posted on May 17, 2007 11:20 AM • 0 Comments •
Less than a week after biofuels were touted as part of the solution to global warming in the third of three highly anticipated UN-sponsored reports on climate change , another UN report has raised alarms about their viability. Among those...
Posted on May 10, 2007 11:42 AM • 1 Comments •
Enrique Gili is a freelance writer covering Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability (LOHAS), issues for regional magazines in the Southland and beyond. I live in Ocean Beach, San Diego the coolest beach town around.
