Items Tagged With Clean Energy

The Thomas L. Friedman Energy Revolution Infomercial
Written By: Michelle Haimoff
2008-09-15 20:47:53
To see Thomas Friedman speak, as I did at The 92nd Street Y on Sunday night, is to witness a live infomercial.

His product? The ET (Energy Technology) Revolution.

The Transition Handbook: From Oil Dependency to Local Resiliency
Written By: Miranda Marquit
2008-08-25 13:11:00
The Transition Handbook: From Oil Dependency to Local Resiliency
By Rob Hopkins
Green Books
240 pages
$24.95

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The University Consortium
Written By: Jack Hudson
2008-04-01 11:46:53

The University Consortium is one of my three aspirational and fictional ideas that are (relatively) cheap, that would make concrete environmental gains, that could be accomplished almost instantaneously by motivated people in positions of power (by phone calls, in two cases), and that would immediately set an agenda for the next election.

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Who is Killing the Electric Car?
Written By: Mark Bershatsky
2008-08-04 11:59:00

Photo: urbanjacksonville, Creative Commons, Flickr
With the race to launch the world's first commercially viable zero-emission vehicle now in full swing, it would be kind of fun to take a short trip down memory lane to see the genesis of this race and how we can formulate our expectations going forward.

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Who Killed the Electric Car?
Written By: Michelle Haimoff
2006-12-11 15:36:20
Who Killed the Electric Car? is pretty much what you’d expect – a 90-minute infomercial about the electric vehicle crossed with a scathing expose of the evil oil and automotive industries.

The protagonist of the film is a bright-eyed redhead named Chelsea Sexton, who joined the marketing team for GM’s prototype electric car, EV1, fresh out of college. Other good guys include scruffy-faced celebrities like Peter Horton and Ed Begley, Jr., who you may recall from the Simpsons episode where he drives a go-cart powered by his own sense of self-satisfaction. In this cameo, he eulogizes the EV1 at a staged funeral for the car in 2003, where activists dressed in black placed flowers on the hood.

The film traces the history of the electric car, from its inception at the turn of the 20th century to its demise at the turn of the 21st. The main focus is the cars’ surge in popularity in recent years with the 1990 Zero Emission Vehicle Mandate, and its abrupt disappearance when the California Air Resources Board (CARB) modified the mandate, prompting car companies to recall and destroy all existing electric vehicles. Although there were waitlists for EV1s at the time of the recall, GM claimed that there was little demand, and EV1 drivers were prohibited from purchasing the vehicles, despite their best efforts.

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