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2002 Vs 2012 Toyota Prius Hybrids
It seems like the Toyota Prius has been zipping around our roads forever, but in reality the first examples only hit U.S. soil just over a decade ago, with the Japanese market getting the car a few years before that.The premise remains the same--a mass-market hybrid vehicle that offers the…
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From Kicking Asphalt:
Better World to Reward Ecologically-Friendly Towing Companies
Staff Writer Hates to Stereotype, But Secretly Yearns to Find Drivers Wearing Fair Trade Organic Coveralls Let's be blunt: we believe that businesses should promote social and environmental responsibility. We also believe we can change the…
Puppy Escapes Hawk, Drops 30 Feet Into New Home
It wasn’t raining cats and dogs in Los Banos, Calif., on Sunday — but it was raining puppies.Elaine Bouschard and her grandson, Taylor Callaway, were in their yard when they saw a dog fall from a height of about 30 feet and hit the ground. The tiny puppy had been…
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Company Wants to Tap Mojave's Public Lands for LA Water
Three decades ago a group of businessmen pored over NASA satellite imagery as part of a worldwide hunt for large groundwater reserves they could tap to grow desert crops. They found the signs they were looking for here in the sun-blasted mountain ranges and creosote-freckled valleys of the Mojave Desert,…
Al Seib / Los Angeles
Solar Installers Caught In Cross Fire Of Trade War
Will the booming U.S. solar installation industry become collateral damage in the growing solar trade war with China?On Thursday, the U.S. Commerce Department issued a preliminary decision levying steep tariffs against Chinese solar manufacturers, finding they illegally dumped cheap photovoltaic cells on the American market.…
AFP via @daylife
From Kicking Asphalt:
Answer to Fuel Woes may be Monster Sweet Potatoes.
Corn ethanol is a good idea in theory — what’s more renewable than a fuel source you plant and harvest every year? But corn is such an inefficient energy source that if we wanted to…
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