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Tire rolling resistance standards and your fuel efficiency
From Cindy Skrzycki’s business column at WashingtonPost.com. Now, as gas prices have hit $4 a gallon and more, the idea of reducing tire “rolling resistance” to improve vehicle gas mileage is gaining traction. After 12 years of blocking any such...
- August 19, 2008 — Dalasie Michaelis
Wine expert: boxed wine better for the environment
From an op-ed piece by Tyler Cowen in The New York Times. More than 90 percent of American wine production occurs on the West Coast, but because the majority of consumers live east of the Mississippi, a large part of...
- August 18, 2008 — Dalasie Michaelis
Heat pump business is hot, naturally
Increasing energy costs have made geothermal heat pumps an attractive solution to heating buildings. The New York Times reports business is booming. “We started as many jobs by April of 2008 as we had done in all of 2007,” said...
- August 13, 2008 — Dalasie Michaelis
Random act of greenness or a job well done?
KB Home has announced it will commit to a new set of environmental standards in its housing developments, including making all of its new communities opening in 2009 compliant with the government’s “Energy Star” certification requirements. Marketplace’s Greenwash Brigade blogger...
- July 25, 2008 — Richard Core
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