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opmlRock Band Tours by Bike
Great music, great idea, and great execution. Check out this 4 minute video. As Kipchoge Spence, the person behind this idea, wrote me:"In 2007, the Ginger Ninjas became the first band in the history of rock and roll to tour by bicycle, unsupporte...
10 Things to Like about $4/gallon Gas
Wow. I am so impressed with Amanda Ripley, who wrote this story for Time magazine. She offers sympathy about the suffering and expands on this list:1. Globalized jobs return home2. Sprawl stalls 3. Four day workweeks4. Less pollution5. More frugal...
Should Brave Men Die So We Can Drive?
This is one of the headlines used on public service announcement posters during World War II to encourage conservation of fossil fuel. This 2 minute compilation shows how times and values have changed. While we look back at old tobacco ads with ho...
How much does it cost to drive?
The IRS formally increased the number it uses for cost per mile car travel, from 50.5 cents per mile, to 58.5 cents per mile. The question for drivers is -- are you sharing that cost or sucking it up all by yourself?I recently did an analysis of A...
The Most Important Thing to Read on Global Warming
James Hansen, the US’s leading climate scientist, to whom I turn for climate science, spoke to the House Select Committee on Energy Independence & Global Warming, and the National Press Club on June 23 2008. His entire talk is only 4 pages. Read i...
$4/gallon gas may be a magic number
After years of not caring, Americans are changing their ways, and quickly.1. Changed driving habits. From the New York Times:“In March, Americans drove 11 billion fewer miles on public roads than in the same month the previous year, a 4.3 percent...
Which cars get the best mileage?
We all use the Prius (45 mpg highway) as the short-cut reference for a fuel efficient car. The folks at Honda must be ripping their hair out at the relative silence yet equal performance of the Civic (also 45 mpg). And the Mini Cooper, with its aw...
How to reduce US CO2 emissions by 10% this month
There was an article in the Boston Globe today about Gas costs forcing drivers to cut back."Until then, Stone said, she hadn't thought much about gas prices or filling the tank of her Acura, which she did a least twice a week. Now Stone, 55, a tea...
How to reduce US CO2 emissions by 10% this month
There was an article in the Boston Globe today about Gas costs forcing drivers to cut back."Until then, Stone said, she hadn't thought much about gas prices or filling the tank of her Acura, which she did a least twice a week. Now Stone, 55, a tea...
How to reduce US CO2 emissions by 10% this month
There was an article in the Boston Globe today about Gas costs forcing drivers to cut back."Until then, Stone said, she hadn't thought much about gas prices or filling the tank of her Acura, which she did a least twice a week. Now Stone, 55, a tea...
The Face-off: Prius vs GoLoco
And the winner is, GoLoco!*When you drive a hybrid, sure you get more miles to the gallon, but it turns out most people drive more miles since it costs them less. The net reduction in CO2 emissions is about 3% for every 10% better mileage the vehi...
GoLoco on Facebook
By now you may have heard that we're running GoLoco on Facebook Platform (for some weird reason the PR people at Facebook insist on the absence of the word "the"). We're excited about the opportunities this provides, and, as engineers, we are hav...
Al Gore is a Hero
And it's not because he looks good in blue spandex wearing his underwear outside his pants. That would actually be disturbing. He is a hero because Google’s trend line for US searches on the term “global warming” shows a doubling in 2006. It prove...
Wimpy Calculus for Reducing CO2 emissions
“I’ll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today.”The Conservation Fund has a Go Zero program, I just stumbled across. They describe themselves as a fund that “pioneers a balanced, non-advocacy, non-membership approach to conservation, one that ...
The thrill of success
Since I live in the city, and work a few blocks from home, I don't get many chances to go loco. So right after I had booked my plane trip to attend a conference last weekend and then a rental car, I posted the trip on GoLoco: National Airport to L...
Photos, and lack thereof
As we were building the website and talking to experienced experts (instead of the inexperienced ones), we heard some amusing strategies about what it takes to get people to upload a photo:Strategy 1: Offer up lame substitutes so that people would...