|
Support nonprofit, independent environmental journalism.
|
|
 Stories About: air pollution AND books AND cars AND electric vehicles AND energy efficiency AND green living AND hybrids AND oil AND placemaking
| Headline |
Author |
Published |
Section |
Reinventing the Wheels
How far can clean cars take us? |
Jim Motavalli |
19 May 2000 |
Arts and Minds |
| This essay is adapted from Forward Drive: The Race to Build "Clean" Cars for the Future. Forward Drive By Jim Motavalli Sierra Club Books, 272 pages, 2000 I loved cars long before I knew there was any reason to worry about their effect on the environment or be concerned about the smoke that poured from their tailpipes. In the 1960s, ignorance like mine was widespread in the United States, maintained b ... |
|
| Topics: air pollution, books, cars, electric vehicles, energy efficiency, green living, hybrids, oil, placemaking (all these topics) |
|
|
|
|
©2008. Grist Magazine, Inc. All rights reserved. Gloom and doom with a sense of humor®.