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Vacation Rentals: How to Shrink Your Carbon Footprint

Baua Electric

Search for sustainable rentals The nonprofit Sustonica validates short-term rentals based on sustainability standards, including conserving water and minimizing waste. She recommends travelers live like locals, including taking public transportation, visiting neighborhoods beyond city centers and patronizing small businesses.

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US DOE Awards $300 Million in Clean Cities Grants to Support Alternative Fuels, Vehicles, and Infrastructure Development

Green Car Congress

New vehicles to be deployed include 55 CNG vehicles, 363 propane vehicles, 89 hybrid electric vehicles, and 56 neighborhood electric vehicles. A CNG fueling station will be constructed at 2 of the recipient’s, Allied Waste, locations. Total DOE award: $12,975,388. Railroad Commission of Texas’ Texas Propane Fleet Pilot Program.

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The Long View from SAE 2009 World Congress

Green Car Congress

Cities account for 2% of the world’s area and yet they account for 75% of the resources and 75% of the waste ,” said Cervero. He calls Stockholm’s neighborhoods a “ string of pearls ” with a balanced use of land for work and housing—and yet Stockholm has relatively high level of car ownership (555 cars/ 1000 inhabitants).

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Inside The Green Task Force

Creative Greenius

And the work they’re doing brings California’s leading edge fight against global warming right into my neighborhood and into my home. He has been in the recycling position for the past five years and oversees the city’s ambitious Zero Waste programs. Talk about a dichotomy.

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As the off-road vehicle market rushes to electrify, standards are lagging behind

Charged EVs

Case New Holland brought out a methane-powered tractor that [runs on methane] made from farm waste. You’re operating close in neighborhoods, so the quiet is a huge advantage, and you have room to have a pretty good-sized electric actuator on a garbage truck because it’s a bigger vehicle. Garbage trucks.

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Solar Smackdown in Torrance – Installer Sues City on Behalf of the Sun

Creative Greenius

The Torrance Hillside Overlay district , covers most of the historic Hollywood Riviera neighborhood where the Creative Greenius lives and I can tell you that it’s a zoning law that is pure politics. Just two people live in its 3000+ energy-wasting square feet. It’s just this mind-blowing waste of time.

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Using the PHEV (Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle) to Transition Society Seamlessly and Profitably From Fossil Fuel to 100% Renewable Energy

Green Car Congress

To ignore this potential is wasteful and foolish. has constructed prototype PHEV trucks for electric utility companies which can deliver energy to power an entire neighborhood during maintenance or repair when there is a power outage [ 4 ]. It is wasteful and destructive to be burning this versatile molecule; we must stop.

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