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KPMG study identifies 10 sustainability “megaforces” with accelerating impacts on business; imperative of sustainability changing the automotive business radically

Green Car Congress

The KPMG research finds that the external environmental costs of 11 key industry sectors jumped 50% from US$566 to US$846 billion in 8 years (2002 to 2010), averaging a doubling of these costs every 14 years. Total environmental cost 2010 vs growth in environmental cost since 2002 vs environmental intensity improvement. Source: KPMG.

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Perspective: Drive Star Conversion Program Could Cut US Oil Use in Half by 2020

Green Car Congress

We’re now in the crisis CalCars knew, when we began in 2002, would some day arrive. (We We’ve already decided we’re going to fix already-built houses, offices and factories that waste energy. Our effort will inspire other startups to accelerate development of liquid fuels from algae and agricultural waste products.

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My Cycling trip from Agra to Bikaner

Plug In India

75 + taxes. Then there was the Finance Minister, Toda mal, the brains behind the Jaziya tax. Alas, these visitors have stopped coming here since 2002. I feel standardised packaging is the best way forward to reduce the solid waste problems that our cities face. A stork is most magnificent to watch in flight.

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GM Says Chevrolet Volt Won't 'Pay the Rent' | Autopia from Wired.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Engineering proptypes enjoy a tax break. Companies can not sell engineering prototypes in which the company got R&D tax breaks in developing the product. We should have built more Nuclear power plants and created a nuclear waste recycling program. We are addicted to the gasoline tax both at the State and Federal level.

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