We researched ad nauseam what fuel-efficient, low-emissions car we should buy. We finally chose the Honda Civic hybrid for its great ratings all around, plus its state AND federal tax credits. We waited and waited for it to arrive at the dealership. Last night we finally brought it home.
Entries Tagged as 'hybrid'
Our New Honda Hybrid
May 14th, 2008 · 3 Comments · sustainability, transportation
Tags: carbon footprint·carpool·carpooling·cars·consumption·energy conservation·green living·Honda hybrid·hybrid·hybrids·Prius·pzev·tax credit
Food For Biofuel? Wrong.
May 8th, 2008 · 4 Comments · food & drink, sustainability, transportation
While President Bush and the biofuel industry are happy with the growth of biofuel, Columbia economics professor Jeffrey Sachs is not. Neither, it seems, are millions in the world currently starving who weren’t starving prior to the push for biofuel. The food riots in at least eight countries over skyrocketing food prices may have been [...]
Tags: biofuel·consumption·economics·energy conservation·environment·ethanol·food prices·fuel·global warming·hybrid·hybrids·Jeffrey Sachs·life·subsidies
Stampede To Small Cars?
May 2nd, 2008 · No Comments · sustainability, transportation
The New York Times has a front-page article today about Americans making a stampede to small cars due to rising gas prices.
I read it avidly since our transportation choices form such a high percentage of our national carbon footprint (and carbon emissions are the primary cause of global warming). It turned out that one in [...]
Tags: carbon footprint·carpooling·cars·consumption·economics·energy conservation·fuel efficiency·global warming·hybrid·hybrids·pzev·SUVs
Driving A Prius In The Wild West
April 22nd, 2008 · 5 Comments · sustainability, transportation
My job in transportation options has taken me, in a new Prius, to the high desert town of Bend, Oregon (recently named by American Cowboy magazine in its Top Ten list of wild-west towns). The Prius, mud-splattered from the Santiam Pass, is now dusted with snow as well, so it reminds me of an [...]
Tags: Appaloosa·Bend·carbon emissions·climate change·conservation·consumption·energy conservation·global warming·green living·hybrid·hybrids·Juliet Schor·Old West·Oregon·peak oil·Prius·vanpool·Wild West
Happy Hybrid Easter!
March 23rd, 2008 · No Comments · home & garden, nature, spirituality & religion, sustainability
Hybrid: a result of cross-breeding. Easter: a Christian holiday celebrating the resurrection of Christ — celebrated the Sunday following the first full moon of the vernal equinox.
Wait a minute. Easter is famously Christian, but its timing is completely earth-centered, ruled by nature, which is to say it is pagan. Easter is a hybrid holiday. Christianity has been shown by scholars to have deep roots in the earlier earth-centered religions
Tags: Christ·earth·Easter·equinox·hybrid·life·rebirth·religion·resurrection
