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Toyota moves to test plug-in Prius in Japan It's getting closer	Joseph Romm	23 Jul 2007	Gristmill
Green Car Congress translated a story that appeared in the Japanese press: Toyota Motor Co. will obtain permission from Japan's Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport by the end of July for the testing of a prototype plug-in Prius on public roads. Toyota will be the first car maker to obtain permission for a plug-in hybrid test in Japan. After completing the road tests, Toyota will start building a way to market the model by leasing them to pu ...
Topics: cars, electric vehicles, green living, hybrids, Japan, placemaking (all these topics)

Make me change my ways Individuals support policies they don't live by voluntarily	David Roberts	23 Jul 2007	Gristmill
Over at the New Yorker, James Surowiecki draws our attention to this oddity: The curious fact is that many people buying three-ton Suburbans for that arduous two-mile trip to the supermarket also want Congress to pass laws making it harder to buy Suburbans at all. This is, he notes, not an isolated phenomenon: individuals often support policies that will force them to make different choices -- choices they're not willing to make of their own volition. Furthermore, ...
Topics: green living, placemaking, politics (all these topics)

Go Get 'Em, Plugger Plug-in hybrids would reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, says new study		23 Jul 2007	Daily Grist
Go Get 'Em, Plugger Plug-in hybrids would reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, says new study Plug-in hybrid vehicles, long extolled here at Grist HQ, seem always to elicit one question from doubters: Wouldn't running cars on electricity just mean more emissions from power plants? Answer: No! According to a ne ...
Topics: ... climate, electric vehicles, electricity grid, energy, fuel efficiency, green living, greenhouse-gas emissions, hybrids, news, placemaking (all these topics)

Toyota moves to corner the 'plug-in' market Announces development plans	Joseph Romm	23 Jul 2007	Gristmill
Plug-ins are on the way! We've said it many times, but then we aren't the world's leading auto maker. The Christian Science Monitor reports: Toyota's revelation Tuesday that it will develop a new "plug-in hybrid" - which uses a wall socket at night to charge and relies on an electric motor to go many miles before sipping any gasoline - could presage a major shift in automotive technology, some industry analysts say. Detroit's Big Three hav ...
Topics: cars, electric vehicles, green living, hybrids, placemaking (all these topics)

Loan star Making energy efficiency possible for cheapskate homeowners	Clark Williams-Derry	20 Jul 2007	Gristmill
Apropos of my recent realization that if I had bought a new furnace on credit rather than waiting to save up the cash I'd have saved a bundle of money over the last 5 years, here's something I've been meaning to write about for months: a Vancouver developer that came up with a smart -- I mean, diabolically smart -- financing scheme to build a super-efficient condo complex. (Proving, I suppose, biodiversivist's point that spreadsheets are, in fact, wonderful thi ...
Topics: energy, energy at home, energy efficiency, green building, green living, placemaking, Vancouver (all these topics)

On the Ball: Get trashed fast Or should that be get fast trashed?	Sarah K. Burkhalter	18 Jul 2007	Gristmill
In college I wrote my honors thesis on the connection between running and spirituality. And I like the idea of eco-running as a combining-of-passions sort of idea. Except I'm not really into combining my passions a la eco-runner Samuel, by picking up trash while I run. Because I'm training for a marathon, and I live in the city, and if I picked up every bit of trash on my long runs, I'd probably never finish. Also, I've never been a fan of running while carrying ...
Topics: green living, placemaking, sports, waste (all these topics)

Leo, I've Got a Feeling We're Not in Hollywood Anymore DiCaprio-produced series will rebuild tornado-ravaged Kansas town		16 Jul 2007	Daily Grist
Leo, I've Got a Feeling We're Not in Hollywood Anymore DiCaprio-produced series will rebuild tornado-ravaged Kansas town It's official: Nine months after the rumors began, Leonardo DiCaprio has confirmed that he and a partner will give birth to ... a reality series on green building. DiCaprio will executive produce the 13-part Eco-Town on the Discove ...
Topics: celebrity, green living, Kansas, Leonardo DiCaprio, news, placemaking, severe weather, urban planning (all these topics)

Bright green principles All 21 of them, from Worldchanging	David Roberts	13 Jul 2007	Gristmill
A while back, Worldchanging did a great series of posts on the core principles of a bright green future. I kept meaning to link to it. Now I finally am! Here they are: Principle 1: The Backstory Principle 2: Ecological Footprints and One Planet Thinking Principle 3: Cradle to Cradle and Closing the Loop Principle 4: Life Cycle Analysis, Embodied Energy and Virtual Water Principle 5: Ecosystem Services and Ecological Economics Principle 6: Transp ...
Topics: education, environmental movement, green living, placemaking (all these topics)

National Downshifting Week Quick, do nothing!	Sarah K. Burkhalter	12 Jul 2007	Gristmill
In April, Grist profiled Tracey Smith in our InterActivist column. She answered questions from Grist editors and from readers during National Downshifting Week in Britain. She just sent me a note to let me know that this very week is National Downshifting Week USA. Quick! Do nothing!
Topics: green living, placemaking (all these topics)

Here's a green Ditty for ya More green musicians	Kate Sheppard	11 Jul 2007	Gristmill
We've gotten tons of emails from people who are all like 'Why didn't my fav band make your '15 Green Musicians and Bands' list, yo?' Most of them are just sorta self-righteous and annoying. But today we got one from the good folks over on Spinner.com that pointed to their own list on the subject, which had some overlap with ours, as well as a few cool additions. Their No. 1 gets extra cool points: The Ditty Bops. As they describe them: To promote their 2006 album ' ...
Topics: bikes, green living, music, placemaking (all these topics)

Share and share a bike NYC puts training wheels on new program	Sarah van Schagen	10 Jul 2007	Gristmill
New York City is putting training wheels on a new bicycle-sharing program to demonstrate to city-dwellers that two-wheelers can be a viable form of alternative transportation. Sponsored by the Forum for Urban Design, a group of architects, designers, and planners, the five-day trial run has made 20 bikes available for free from 10 a.m.-6 p.m. for 30 minutes at a time. Bicycle-sharing programs are already thriving in European cities like Barcelona, Spain, and Lyo ...
Topics: bikes, green living, New York, New York City, placemaking (all these topics)

Southern vacation A few random observations before getting back to work	David Roberts	10 Jul 2007	Gristmill
Well, here I am, back from a nine-day vacation in the South, sunburned, mosquito-bitten, jet lagged, and generally dazed. Rather than wading through the 300 or so emails demanding my attention, how about a few vacation observations? I split my time between big-city Atlanta and the sort of not-quite-rural, not-quite-city, not-quite-suburb nether regions that, it seems to me, don't get enough attention in the kind of lay sociological analysis we enviros are prone to. ...
Topics: Georgia, green living, placemaking, Prius, Tennessee, travel (all these topics)

Sure it's 100 in the shade, but man, nice plane! While planet burns, Boeing scores a PR victory	JMG	10 Jul 2007	Gristmill
At the gym, in between hearing an EMT talk about the heat stroke issues he expects tomorrow, I marveled at how awful news programs were today, devoting huge chunks of time to talking up Boeing's new 'Dreamliner' jet, which the blow-drieds say will consume 20 percent less fuel per mile. I even heard one blow say 'eventually reducing the cost of air travel.' Man, talk about delusional. (Oh, and I know I'm not supposed to connect things like our craze for jet travel and high ...
Topics: air travel, climate, ecological footprint, green living, music, placemaking, public transportation (all these topics)

The catch phrase of the millennium Catchy, catchy!	JMG	03 Jul 2007	Gristmill
Someone -- possibly Bart A., who frequents these haunts -- came up with a magnificent line that ought to be widely repeated and put on T-shirts, bike stickers, etc: 'The Future Has Pedals.' Love it!
Topics: bikes, green living, placemaking (all these topics)

Report: Diesels will outsell hybrids in the U.S. by 2012 What next? Socialized medicine?	Erik Hoffner	29 Jun 2007	Gristmill
A new report (PDF) claims that more Americans are likely to opt for diesel vehicles over hybrids in the near future in the quest for fuel economy: total sales of hybrids and diesels will hit 2.7 million annually by 2012, and diesels will account for more than half (1.5 million) of those sales. 'A new diesel's cost burden is lower than hybrid's for similar fuel economy -- even with the 'clean' technologies needed to meet tough U.S. emissions regulations (including ...
Topics: cars, electric vehicles, fuel efficiency, green living, hybrids, placemaking (all these topics)

Ignorance is bliss Do parents lose or gain by taking kids outdoors?	Christine Gardner	26 Jun 2007	Gristmill
I'm a little bitter about not playing soccer. Or softball. Or piano. I did take dance lessons, but the name 'Klutzy Chrissy' didn't happen by accident. My parents preferred to send me outside. Even in our Detroit neighborhood, which developed a reputation during the last 30 years of offering a wide assortment of crack houses, my friends and I explored the alleys while making sure to wear shoes as protection from broken bottles. Ah, nature. My parents certainly ...
Topics: green living, parenting, placemaking (all these topics)

Innovative ideas for a new West An annual conference for perennial inspiration	Erik Hoffner	25 Jun 2007	Gristmill
Westerners are known for their pluck and willingness to solve problems with grit and imagination. Combating climate change, developing renewable energy, promoting rural economies and local agriculture, strengthening communities, and ensuring equitable access to transit ... these are all pieces of a Western manifesto put forward by the Sopris Foundation's great annual conference, this year in Missoula from July 13-15. Elected officials, planners, ranchers and farmers, ...
Topics: environmental movement, green living, placemaking (all these topics)

Farewell, complete walker A valedictory to Colin Fletcher	Charles Komanoff	20 Jun 2007	Gristmill
For most of us who care about ecology and the environment, there was some personal experience that brought us there. For me, it was wilderness hiking, beginning 30-plus years ago in the Grand Canyon and continuing across the American West. Two books helped instigate my journeys and those of thousands of fellow adventure-seekers and nature-lovers. The Welshman who wrote them, the intrepid and blessedly individualistic Colin Fletcher, died earlier this month, at 85. ...
Topics: cars, green living, placemaking, travel (all these topics)

Google tries to kickstart an energy revolution Google.org funds V2G demonstration projects	David Roberts	18 Jun 2007	Gristmill
Sweet mama! Google.org is going to give vehicle-to-grid technology a much-needed boost, to the tune of $10 million. The company is going to modify six cars, a mix of Toyota Priuses and Ford Escape hybrids, with batteries that can draw juice from the grid and feed juice back in. The promise of this technology is that if it spreads, it will enable distributed electricity storage that can smooth spikes in electricity demand without expensive new generation plants. That ...
Topics: business, cars, electric vehicles, electricity grid, green living, hybrids, placemaking, Prius (all these topics)

Hybrid bike update Dumb and not so dumb questions answered	biodiversivist	13 Jun 2007	Gristmill
Well, here's some more footage of my new bike. I couldn't think of a better way to convey its ability to accelerate uphill than to just do it with normal bikes in the background for comparison. Note the dearth of spandex. Is this fad about to go the way of the powdered wig? The following are some answers to frequently asked questions:Q: How fast can it go? A: I don't know. In theory, my car can do 110 mph, but I will never drive it that fast. It is accelerat ...
Topics: bikes, green living, placemaking (all these topics)

Honda ditches Accord hybrid	David Roberts	09 Jun 2007	Gristmill
Honda is ditching the Accord Hybrid because it discovered that ... are you sitting down? ... people who buy hybrids like good gas mileage.
Topics: business, cars, fuel efficiency, green living, placemaking (all these topics)

Trying to let go of the weekend	David Roberts	04 Jun 2007	Gristmill
It's been sunny, clear, and hot in Seattle. My shoulders are sunburnt! My weekend was capped by two great experiences yesterday. First, I got to test drive BioD's new rig. Wow. You really can't imagine all the new horizons an electric bike opens up until you're on one -- especially an electric bike with enough power to pin your ears back. Then I saw Knocked Up, which I can't recommend highly enough. It manages to be funny without being crass or mean, and touching w ...
Topics: bikes, green living, movies, placemaking (all these topics)

Hybrid bike design optimization Ultimate Seattle hybrid plug-in	biodiversivist	01 Jun 2007	Gristmill
Well, I spent last weekend building the ultimate electric hybrid bicycle for Seattle riding. My first bike was more or less a prototype that taught me all I needed to know to put this one together.Note how similar this bike looks to the $7,000 bike featured in a recent New York Times article. Similar design parameters usually lead to similar designs. That is why most airliners have two wings, engines mounted on pylons under those wings, and three tail feathers. Ho ...
Topics: bikes, green living, placemaking (all these topics)

More of what bike-friendly looks like Blue lanes, cage locks, and cyclibraries	Alan Durning	31 May 2007	Gristmill
Separate bikeways are the lead actors in bike-friendly cities, but many supporting actors complete the cast: bikes on transit facilities, good traffic law enforcement, even bike 'lifts' on steep hills. Three more worth mentioning are blue lanes, parking cages, and cyclibraries. Blue lanes. (Photo courtesy of Jayson Antonoff, International Sustainable Solutions.) My youngest son often bikes to drama rehearsals. It's about three miles from our home in Seattle, ...
Topics: bikes, green living, placemaking, Portland, Seattle (all these topics)

Two Green Builders Take Trains Leaving From Different Stations... U.S. schools betting on benefits of going green		29 May 2007	Daily Grist
Two Green Builders Take Trains Leaving From Different Stations... U.S. schools betting on benefits of going green When we were kids, the only thing green about our schools was the vomit-hued paint on the bathroom walls. But times change, and these days, schools across the U.S. are incorporating green features that save money, improve student performance, and help protect the planet. The trend is ...
Topics: education, green building, green living, news, placemaking (all these topics)

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