The first petitions I ever signed were at the famous Wetlands Preverve club in New York City. A music venue (I saw the Rugburn, Ani DiFranco, and many others there) with an eco twist, it had a cool Volkswagen bus that was the centerpiece of the 'activist area,' a part of the space that was filled with information on environmental campaigns, as well as numerous paper petitions to sign.
Filed under: Hybrid , Audi The diesel era at Le Mans may not be over yet, but already we’re seeing the emergence of a new propulsion trend: hybrids.
Filed under: Hybrid , Toyota , Chicago Auto Show Could Toyota be dropping us all a hint about its place in the hybrid-vehicle world? The Japanese automaker is teaming up with board-game maker Hasbro to create a mini road course based on the Monopoly board game at the Chicago Auto Show , which Toyota will use to pitch its latest batch of hybrid vehicles. Toyota and Hasbro are using more than 30,000 square feet, or about two-thirds of an acre, inside McCormick Center’s South Hall for the course, where trained drivers will pick up visitors in Prius V wagons, Camry Hybrids and Highlander Hybrids, and drive them through the S-curve-filed course
Filed under: EV/Plug-in , Green Culture , Honda , Hyundai , Nissan , Toyota , AutoblogGreen Exclusive , Legislation and Policy What impact will the ” over-compliance ” rule – some would say loophole – in the California Air Resources Board’s recent changes to the Zero-Emission Vehicle (ZEV) Mandate have? The short and obvious answer is that only time will tell, but one can make the case both that it’s a good thing and that it’s a bad thing. Odd, but true.
Robin Gibb, who rocketed to fame as a member of the musical group the Bee Gees, has gone public over concerns his health was in decline.
Filed under: Hybrid , Toyota , Japan Perhaps the the “c” in the Prius C stands for ka-ching. According to reports, Toyota in Japan received 10 times its monthly sales target in pre-orders for the compact version of its Prius hybrid within the first five days of the model’s debut, leading to what’s likely to be a shortage and long wait times for the car. HybridCars.com, citing the Japanese publication Nikkei , says the Japanese automaker received about 120,000 orders for the Aqua between December 26 and 31, adding that Toyota had targeted sales of about 12,000 units a month.
It's already February! The days are lengthening and hinting at the promise of long summer days spent in the garden yet to come.
The New York Times chats up the developer and a few very happy residents of SOL Austin, an affordable, 5.5-acre?sustainable housing development in the Lone Star State built as “an ambitious attempt to upend the conventions of the American subdivision.” The small-ish and minimalist “matchbook” homes (rendering above) in this cul-de-sac community
I don’t know about you, but I plan to spend Sunday eating and drinking beer and watching lots of commercials and eating some more. Oh, and watching some football, I suppose
I was raised in southern California, where it’s standard practice to keep a sun-loving aloe plant on any and every premises — in a pretty planter in the window, potted in terra cotta o