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Greening Hollywood: Bioneers Host Ed Begley, Jr.

Paige Donner | Posted May 2, 2008 | Living

Read More: A Guide To The Eco-Friendly Life, Bioconverter, Biofuel, Bioneers, Corn, Eco-Improvements, Ed Begley Jr., Electric Cars, Environmental, Ethanol, Food Cost Spike, Green Collar, Greening Hollywood, Grist, International Food Policy Research Institute, Itsrecycled, Katrina, Living Like Ed, Low Impact Living, Solar Energy, Water Bottles
Paige Donner

Ed Begley, Jr., resident Rockstar of the Hollywood Green Movement, spoke at last Tuesday's Venice Beach Bioneers ("Revolution from the Heart of Nature" www.bioneers.org) meeting held at the Electric Lodge, presented by Sara Nichols and Barbara Bosson.

Ed is fresh from launching his new book, Living Like Ed: A...

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Talking Green with Cameron Diaz

Marianne Schnall | Posted April 9, 2008 | Living

Read More: Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth, Cameron Diaz, Celebrity Activism, Celebrity Activists, Climate Change, Earth Day, Ecology, Electric Cars, Environment, Environmental, Global Warming, Green Living, Live Earth, Organic, Recycling, Sustainability, We Campaign, We Can Solve It
Marianne Schnall

Last year I did an interview with Cameron Diaz who was helping promote Al Gore's Live Earth event for a piece I wrote that ran at Entertainment Weekly's web site, EW.com, "Cameron Diaz on Live Earth".

With Earth Day upcoming on April 22nd, I thought...

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Electric Car Makers Facing Numerous Production Hurdles

Los Angeles Times   |  Ken Bensinger   |   April 5, 2008 04:24 PM

Read More: Electric Car Makers, Electric Cars, Tesla Motors
On an overcast Friday in February, about 100 people gathered behind Tesla Motors Inc. headquarters, awaiting the future of transportation. A truck pulled up with a trailer, which disgorged a sleek black electric sports car that promises to change the...

California Lowers Auto Emissions Rule

AP   |  SAMANTHA YOUNG   |   March 28, 2008

Read More: Auto Manufacturers, Calfornia Regulators, California, Electric Cars, Environmentalist, Global Warming, Hydrogen Fuel-Cell Vehicles, Zero-Emission Vehicles
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California regulators have drastically cut the number of zero-emission vehicles required to be sold in the state by the year 2014, a decision that frustrated environmentalists but came as a relief to auto manufacturers. The rules adopted...

GM Announces New Hybrid System

AP   |  TOM KRISHER   |   March 4, 2008

Read More: Automakers, Electric Cars, Electric Motors, General Motors, Geneva International Motor Show, Gm, Hybrid Engine, Hybrids, Lithium-Ion Battery, Rick Wagoner
DETROIT — General Motors Corp. says it expects to bring its first lithium-ion battery powered hybrid engine system to market in North America in 2010. The world's largest automaker by sales was to announce the hybrid system Tuesday at the...

The Car of the Future is Here

Joseph Romm | Posted January 22, 2008 | Politics

Read More: Electric Cars, Global Warming, Plug-In Hybrids, Renewable Energy
Joseph Romm

Significant advances in design and infrastructure have brought plug-in hybrids and pure electric vehicles to the point of major near-term commercialization. I have an article in Salon about plug-in hybrids. The two central points of the article are:


  1. Plug-in hybrids (and electric cars) are an essential...

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Cultural Reactionaries

Jesse Larner | Posted January 21, 2008 | Politics

Read More: Coal, Electric Cars, Electricity, Energy, Global Warming, Renewable Energy
Jesse Larner

I'd like to start by mentioning a piece that I wrote for Dissent magazine, on the influential economist Friedrich Hayek, a hero of the right. It's in the current edition, Winter 2008. I'd been wanting to write about Hayek for a while, and I was pleased with how it...

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Chrysler Opts For All-Electric Cars Rather Than Plug-Ins

CNet News   |   Michael Kanellos   |   January 15, 2008 02:40 PM

Read More: All-Electric Cars, Alternative Fuel Cars, Car Batteries, Detroit Auto Show, Electric Cars, Green Cars, Nissan Chrysler, Plug-In Hybrids, Zeo
When you're No. 3, you've got to do something. At the Detroit auto show this week, Chrysler showed off three green car concepts, including an all-electric one called the Zeo that will go from zero to sixty in 5.7 seconds...

Who's Reviving The Electric Car?

GreenTechMedia   |  Rachel Barron   |   December 14, 2007 02:42 PM

Read More: Electric Cars, Electric Vehicle Symposium, Prius, Smith Electric Vehicles
As researchers, government agencies and financiers discuss how to bring electric vehicles to the masses at the International Electric Vehicle Symposium and Exposition in Anaheim, Calif., this week, companies are dishing up their latest electric announcements. The UK's Smith Electric...

Making the Dumb Grid Smarter

Marc Gunther | Posted October 22, 2007 | Business

Read More: Efficient Energy, Electric Cars, Gridpoint, Hybrid Cars, Peter Darbee, PG&E Corp, Renewable Energy, Vehicle To Grid, Vtg
Marc Gunther

"You know how we find out when the power goes out somewhere in our system?" Peter Darbee asks me.

I don't know. Peter is the CEO of PG&E Corp., a $12.5-billion-a-year utility company in northern California. We had lunch recently at the National Press Club in Washington.

"We...

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