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Climate Ark: Solutions/Community Action Links
Added: Aug. 31, 2005 | Rate It Culture Change http://www.culturechange.org/cms/index.php an on-line magazine produced by the Sustainable Energy Institute that seeks to demonstrate alternatives to sprawl and petroleum dependence while fighting unwise development such as new road construction Added: Sep. 07, 2002 | Rate It 1 of 22 of 2 Links: Home | Search | New & Cool | Add Climate Home Climate ...
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Why Should We Care About the Vehicles We Buy and Drive?
Improving vehicle efficiency is the single most effective means to reduce petroleum dependence. The Energy Commission and the California Air Resources Board have concluded that improving vehicle ... recommendations established a goal for the use of alternative fuels: "Increase the use of non-petroleum fuels to 20 percent of on-road fuel consumption by 2020 and 30 percent by ...
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Alternative Fuel Vehicles
Improving vehicle efficiency is the single most effective means to reduce petroleum dependence. The Energy Commission and the California Air Resources Board have concluded that improving vehicle ... recommendations established a goal for the use of alternative fuels: "Increase the use of non-petroleum fuels to 20 percent of on-road fuel consumption by 2020 and 30 percent by ...
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CU Biodiesel
Bus Members Page Workshops ESTER LIVE Forum Fueling the Future Is it possible to kick our petroleum dependence? This is the question a group of students at the University of Colorado at ... the steps CU Biodiesel took to take the University of Colorado on the road to petroleum independence. Early Stages CU Environmental Engineering student Andrew Azman first developed ideas about biodiesel after ...
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Petroleum culture versus Earth living - the fallacy of the renewable energy technofix
Pedal Power solutions to petroleum dependence and polluting vehicles: Arcata Library Bikes, Pedal Power Produce, and more! CAOE - Committee Against Oil ... perhaps. Renewable energy's shortcomings The renewable-energy technofix camp thinks of itself as beyond petroleum. If one includes their passive supporters, it is huge. It has its beneficiaries and enforcers. ...
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Citizen petroleum councils: toward conservation, food security and peace
United Nations. The idea is to involve people in their own lives, because petroleum dependence has crept into and taken over their homes, jobs, recreation, and, most critical, eating ... consumers, and conservationists, to advise all governments decision makers who control any part of the petroleum infrastructure. Talents must be gathered from academia and working persons skills, so as to survey ...
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California Fuel Cell Partnership
Goals of the Energy Commission include promoting alternative fuels to reduce petroleum dependence and researching alternative forms of energy such as solar, wind, hydrogen and fuel cells. In particular, the Energy Commission's goals in the transportation sector focus on encouraging ...
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NREL: Advanced Vehicles and Fuels Research - Advanced Petroleum Based Fuels
By using a systems approach, the research aims to improve vehicle efficiency, thereby decreasing our nation's dependence on imported petroleum products. Also of critical importance is determining how fuel and lubricant properties affect the performance of emission control devices. The APBF Diesel Emission Control (DEC) ...
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Cut Oil Dependence, Sandy Moser
But it is crucial that we understand that increased domestic oil production will not break our dependence on Persian Gulf oil. Oil is a commodity traded in a global market. We cannot wall ... on oil. Instead, we should aggressively reduce our oil dependence, through greater efficiency and diversifying our energy mix with ethanol and other non-petroleum alternatives. It’s time to stop using yesterday’s ...
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Reduce our dependence on oil, Sandy Moser
Coghlan’s July 31 commentary is his assertion that increased domestic oil production would break our dependence on Persian Gulf oil. What Coghlan overlooks is that oil is bought and sold in a ... oil. Instead, we should aggressively reduce our oil dependence, through greater efficiency and diversifying our energy mix with ethanol and other non-petroleum alternatives. It’s time to stop using yesterday’ ...
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