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Munter's job is to waste gasoline for entertainment. It doesn't matter how many offsets she buys after each race, her actual profession consists of creating useless carbon emissions. How the hell does that earn her a place on this list, let alone the #1 spot?
I agree - clearly words (and a pretty face) speak louder than actions.
And not that everbody who cares has to devote their working life to savings the environment, but this is indicitive of a disconnect in our culture, and something the green community is going to face a lot more as it becomes more mainstream.
As someone who was very involved in motorsports as well as environmentally aware the entire time I can tell you that many of the innovations that have come about to make motors high performance while much more fuel efficient have come from the proving grounds of racing. There have been innumerable other discoveries as well such as light-weight yet strong material use (think kevlar) and safety improvements. What I saw being used in rally and racing cars years ago are in the cars of today. There's much more to the sport than just guzzling gas.
No, there is no more to the "sport" than gas-guzzling. The whole entire object of racing is to go as fast as possible, which equates to burning as much gas as possible. If all of our innovations come from motorsports, why aren't there any hybrid or battery-powered cars on the race tracks? How come there are no fuel cells out there? These are all innovations in consumer automobiles, so how'd they skip the motorsport vehicles if all of the innovations we have come from motorsports??
For some reason I can't reply to MNFOX's reply to me but I certainly did not go into absolutes of "ALL" anywhere in my comment nor are "all" races just gas powered. But I wouldn't expect someone who sees motorsports as nothing more than gas-guzzling to know that. Can't see the forest for the blinders on the eyes. Of course, once battery/electric and fuel cell powered cars become competitive (and they will) they too will be raced in the top events that get the most attention. ...read more
How about the TTXGP, the electric motorcycle race running this weekend on the Isle of Man? My guess is that electric race cars are going to be the next big thing. Electric motors are ideal for racing, with their fully available torque and instant responsiveness. Think of how fast a remote control car moves when you consider the scale. Racing will undoubtedly contribute a lot of valuable research to electric car development in the future. If you've ever been to a NASCAR or open-wheel race, you know how polluting they are, and I think racing fans will imbrace fume-free racing.
"My guess is that electric race cars are going to be the next big thing.
Electric motors are ideal for racing, with their fully available torque
and instant responsiveness. Think of how fast a remote control car
moves when you consider the scale. Racing will undoubtedly contribute a
lot of valuable research to electric car development in the future. If
you've ever been to a NASCAR or open-wheel race, you know how polluting
they are, and I think racing fans will imbrace ...read more
I'll have to agree. I don't see how someone can be seriously green andbe employed by the race car industry.
How was Paul Watson, founder of Greenpeace and captain of Sea Shepherd Conservation Society's Steve Irwin, left off of this list?? His commitment to protecting the lives of whales is inspiring not to mention insane.
Okay, I'm sure there are a lot of other "badass" greens out there but may I suggest an honorable mention go to Dave Dahl of Dave's Killer Bread.http://www.daveskillerbread.com/story.shtml (goes to a video) And YAY! for choosing Isa! I was just thinking last night about what a dynamo she is. Such fab food (the new "Vegan Brunch" book is sitting here waiting for me to dive in and drool).
Leilani Munter. Stunt double? Check. Race car driver? Check. Biologist and conservation activist? Uh, OK. Munter doesn’t mess around when it comes to the environment:
she hopes to educate racing’s 100 million racing fans about green
living, serves as an ambassador for the National Wildlife Federation,
has testified on Capitol Hill, and wants to convince her industry to
use more alternative fuels. Says this CarbonFreeGirl: “Just because you’re green ... doesn’t mean you can’t ...read more
To the editors - please correct the link associated with Diane Wilson's entry on this list. You have linked to the website of a very different author who just happens to share Diane's name. The correct link for this particular Diane Wilson should be http://www.chelseagreen.com/authors/diane_wilson. Thank you for making the correction!
Fern, thanks for bringing this egregious mis-linking to our attention. We've made the fix on Diane Wilson's entry; many thanks!
I agree that Paul Watson, Greenpeace co-founder and captain of the 'Steve Irwin' should have been at the top.Not a very well thought out list.
Regarding using pure electric vehicles for racing, check out the National Electric Drag Racing Association at:www.nedra.comAs a former gas drag racer, when I got into pure electrics ten years ago and did my own conversion of an infernal combustion vehicle, I switched to drag racing electric vehicles (EV's). And when I think about who would have made the list of badass greens from NEDRA, I'm thinking Roderick Wild Man Wilde. Check out his website at:www.suckamps.comHe was ...read more
The fuel wasted in the race cars is a drop in the bucket compared to that wasted by the hundreds of thousands of fans driving to the events.
I strongly agree that Paul Watson should have been on this list, and I would also like to put in a good word for Dave Forman, (founder of Earth First!), Doug Peacock, (Vietnam veteran, friend of bears, and the model for "Hayduke" in Edward Abbey's novels), Judy Ackerman, Julia Butterfly Hill, Darryl Cherney, the late Judi Bari and David Chain, (activists who risked inprisonment, violence, and death while attempting to protect wild places and wild things), and the late Edward ...read more