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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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Charles Babbage’s Difference Engine Turns 200

Cars That Think

The government saw the value in a machine that could calculate the many numerical tables used for navigation, construction, finance, and engineering, thereby reducing human labor (and error). After yet another fight over finances, Clement abruptly quit in 1832. You could see why Peel thought it was a waste.

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My Cycling trip from Agra to Bikaner

Plug In India

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. This is the place where his of 9 ministers met. Will blog about that separately.

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Why Warren Buffett is investing in electric car company BYD - Apr. 13, 2009

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

News | Markets | Technology | Personal Finance | Small Business | CNN.com RSS Newsletters Video Home Fortune 500 Technology Investing Management Rankings Warren Buffett takes charge Warren Buffett hasnt just seen the car of the future, hes sitting in the drivers seat. "Its a completely different business model."

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

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

We should have built more Nuclear power plants and created a nuclear waste recycling program. I had surmised this in my 2002 car design thesis [link] even before anyone was talking about plug in series hybrids. Denmark did that with Wind Power and now most of their energy comes from wind rather than oil, natural gas, or coal.

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