Environmental Issues
Alternative Fuels: Biodiesel
Concerns over fuel prices, carbon footprints and saving our environment fuel the race for a good alternative to gasoline.
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PZEVs: Making Gasoline Engines Clean, Green
What are PZEV vehicles? PZEV's are affordable hybrid vehicles that use much less gasoline than a conventional car with a gasoline engine. Now you can drive green!
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How to Green Your Commute
Do you often sit in rush hour traffic, engine idling, going nowhere fast? Is your commute taking longer than it used to because of all the other cars on the road? America's urban commuters now waste an entire workweek each year -- some 38 hours -- stuck in traffic, according to a traffic study released late last year by Texas A&M University’s Texas Traffic Institute.
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Landmark Energy Bill Changes Fuel Standards
While environmentalists celebrate the signing of a landmark energy bill that will increase fuel economy standards on all vehicles from 26.4 miles per gallon (mpg) to 35 mpg, you are probably thinking about how this will affect your wallet.
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Solar Power From Road Surfaces
Dear EarthTalk: I notice occasional solar panels on roadsides, powering individual streetlamps or signs. Is any research being done to expand on this idea and implant solar collectors in roads, parking lots or sidewalks to generate power in a similar but bigger way? -- Emily Eidenier, via e-mail
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Make Your Car and Your Home a Little Greener
It's time to "go green" and you can do that by conserving energy. Our cars are a big part of the environmental problem and there are new energy saving technologies. One of them is a new alternative to spark plugs called Pulsar pulse plugs.
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Are You on the Road to Green?
Here are some tips to help out the environment and your wallet by "going green" when it comes to your car. You can get better gas mileage, produce less vehicle emissions and help to reduce future impact on global warming by taking a few simple steps.
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High Emission Vehicles Banned
Modern cities are having an increasingly difficult time controlling the amount of pollution that their citizens are exposed to. Noise pollution, contaminated drinking water, and fumes from buses and cars all have a negative impact on the quality of life of most urban dwellers.
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The Panasonic World Solar Challenge
Alternative fuels have received a lot of press over the last few years as the increase in gas prices and escalation of global warming concerns have left both consumers and governments scrambling to find a solution to our nation’s energy needs.
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Paving and Road-Building Impacts EarthTalk
Dear EarthTalk: The impacts of all the paving that is done for new roads and parking lots must be considerable. Other than Joni Mitchell’s “They paved paradise and put up a parking lot” issue, what else is this activity doing that will come back to haunt us?
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Alternative Fuels: An Overview of Energy Development
On any given day, you likely cannot watch the television, listen to the radio or log onto the Internet and World Wide Web without encountering some sort of discussion about alternative fuels. In order for you to fully understand the debate and the progress that is (and in some instances is not) being made in regard to alternative fuels, it is important for you to have some basic facts and information in regard to alternative fuels and energy development.
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The Pros and Cons of Biofuels
“A major hurdle for biofuels is the challenge of growing enough crops to meet demand, something skeptics say might well require converting just about all of the world’s remaining forests and open spaces over to agricultural land."
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How Green is Your Winter Driving?
Did you know that Canadian drivers use almost twice as much fuel in the wintertime? Follow these simple steps from Natural Resources Canada to reduce your fuel consumption, save money and help the environment.
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Buying a New Hybrid? Earth Talk
Dear EarthTalk: Short of buying a new hybrid or other “green” car, are there ways I can make my existing vehicle more eco-friendly? I bought my car recently and am not quite ready to give it up. -- Bettie Hilliker, Lansing, MI
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Pollution By Trucks
Dear EarthTalk: Are there any efforts underway to lessen the environmental impact—which must be considerable—of all the “18 wheelers” and other large vehicles that are numerous on our highways? -- Sadie Strauss, Madison, WI
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Leave a More 'Green' Footprint
It's routine for many on an average workday -; climb out of bed, hop in a car and brave the slow-moving traffic to work without thinking twice. But nixing the drive, and opting for public transportation instead, can be a benefit to the environment.
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Frustration Over Skyrocketing Fuel Prices Forces Consumers to Take Matters into Their Own Hands Make Your Own Biodiesel Fuel
Tips for Safely and Effectively Creating Your Own Supply of Biodiesel Fuel
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The Greaseball Challenge – Rally on Vegetable Oils!
It was all done in the spirit of the great car race tradition of old and the long road stretched all the way from the US to Central America. The only thing unique about it was the fact that all the participating vehicles ran on vegetable oil power, or to be more precise, SVO or straight vegetable oil.
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Fuel From A Tree?
While the thought of pulling a vehicle up to a tree and requesting a full tank of gas might seem absurd, the science behind the concept is actually very real.
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Five Steps To A "Greener" Car
Protecting the environment can take you places-especially if you do your part by making sure your car is as "green," or environmentally friendly, as possible.
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Gear Up for Earth Day With Greener Driving, Auto Care
Motorists who want to "go green" don't have to change vehicles to help the environment; they should change a few habits, say the experts at the National Institute for Automotive Service Excellence.
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Four Things You Can Do to Combat Global Warming
Right now, there are billions of tons of weight floating above your head, but don't worry, the sky isn't going to fall anytime soon. It is, however, doing something else: heating up the Earth. All around us, there are signs that global warming is a growing threat to our planet.
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What is The Most Environmentally Friendly Way I Can Wash My Car?
What is the most environmentally friendly way I can wash my car: doing it myself or going to the local car wash?
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Oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve is it really going to help?
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Let’s face it, most of us enjoy the convenience of motoring to work, the movies or to complete one of our seemingly countless errands. What we may not often think about is the global cost of thoughtlessly jumping behind the wheel. As Arctic Drilling proponents push foolhardily toward destruction of “America’s finest example of an intact, naturally functioning community of Arctic/sub-Arctic ecosystems," we are increasingly called upon to recognize those costs.
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