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With all of the greenwashed adds for oil companies like BP, it is nice for a change to look at and add that really speaks the truth. This ad by Humble Oil (now part of Exxon) from 1962 is possibly the most honest straight forward add I have ever seen. Maybe BP needs to take [...] When we talk about forms of transportation, we are often interested in fuel economy because that is what we are used to, but what really matters is the amount of energy it takes to move a certain amount of weight a certain distance. We have tried to represent this in the WAVE scale in our [...] By Guest Author: Josh Holt About a year ago, I began thinking about how much electricity my computer used. I’m not talking about using my computer, but about not using it. Really, how much of your computer do you really use? I’m watching the resource meter right now as [...] Some times it is difficult to put disasters, such as the BP oil spill into perspective, but I thought that these few graphics, did a great job of that. The first, from Information is Beautiful, shows both the size and the impact that this spill is having. The fact that it is steadily approaching the largest spill in [...] After reading the EPA report on climate change last week, I thought that we could all probably use some positive news as well. According to the Energy Information Administration, the US carbon dioxide emissions fell by 7% in 2009. This was the largest drop in emission in over 20 years, and while a third of [...] thanks to Bottom Up Change Did you know that for a few extra dollars a month you could be using all renewable electricity? If you said no, then you are like most of the rest of the country and me included until last week. In my electric bill, this past month, I got a flyer [...] |
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