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Hey pinewood derby veterans: Can you build an affordable, attractive, and super-efficient car? If you can, Mark Goodstein and the Automotive X Prize will pay you 10 million bucks, and in doing so will spur innovation quickly, through competition. LISTEN (10 min)
Picture: Aptera
Vehicles Engineer for the Union of Concerned Scientists, Don Mackenzie reveals the greenest of all automakers (and not any one model, but the company top to bottom) in a recent UCS study. Envelope please...and the winner is: Honda, in a squeaker over Toyota! OK, so perhaps that's not quite "Shakespeare in Love" over "Saving Private Ryan", but it is an indication that competition is bringing out the best in Japanese automakers (as well as rapidly improving Korean brands). Where are the Americans? I'll let Don explain. LISTEN (7 min)
This is a rerun of our January 23 segment.
BMW's Andreas Klugescheid stopped by EcoTalk's Green Street Studios and went for a ride with Betsy in the new BMW Hydrogen 7, answering all the pertinent questions about this new technology along the way. LISTEN (12 min)
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Just when you think California has been as ambitious and unequivocal as it can be in the face of a looming energy crisis and climate change, the state steps on the gas: Dan Kalb, California Policy Analyst for the Union of Concerned Scientists, tells us about the latest bill in the California legislature, proposing a steep discount for fuel efficient vehicles, and a surcharge for gas guzzlers. LISTEN (12 min)
BMW's Andreas Klugescheid stopped by EcoTalk's Green Street Studios and went for a ride with Betsy in the new BMW Hydrogen 7, answering all the pertinent questions about this new technology along the way. LISTEN (12 min)
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In Plug-In Hybrids: The Cars that Will Recharge America Sherry Boschert chronicles the coming together of Americans of all political stripes, from "left greenies" like herself to neoconservative hawks like James Woolsey, to call for 100mpg (100mpg!) Plug-In Hybrids as a solution to our environmental, energy, national security, and pocketbook problems. Let's do it! LISTEN (12 min)
NRDC's Daniel Hinerfeld reports on a study that concludes that no matter what you may have heard, owning a hybrid does indeed save you a substantial amount of money-- perhaps as much as $13,000. Hear all about it, and new concepts like the Chevy Volt. LISTEN (6 min)
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Grist Magazine, the best eco-journalism on the web, just got done with a whopping two-week, 34-part series on Biofuels, and the editor of this groundbreaking piece of work, Tom Philpott, stops by to give us the highlights before he runs out of gas. LISTEN (12 min)
NRDC's Daniel Hinerfeld chats up Ed Begley, Jr. and others about all the fun and fuel-efficiency at the Alternative Car Expo in Los Angeles. No concepts, no promises for the future, this cavalry of inspired and intelligent cars is here today. LISTEN (7 min)
As the LA Auto Show talked the talk last week, across town the Alternative Car Expo shifted into high gear. Rick Sikes, Fleet Superintendent for the city of Santa Monica, gives us his report. LISTEN (11 min)
After a keynote address by GM CEO Rick Wagoner, and lots of eco-chatter, Mike Hudema, Global Exchange's Independence from Oil Director, separates the rhetoric from reality at the Los Angeles Auto Show: "We don't want concepts, we want commitments." LISTEN (8 min)
Who's afraid of the Plug-In Hybrid? Felix Kramer of Cal Cars and Plug-In America gets 100 miles/gallon, and thinks there are a few reasons why you might want to as well. LISTEN (12 min)
Joel Makower of GreenBiz.com helps us navigate an widening variety of fuel-efficient, forward-thinking automobile technology. Joel says that sometimes the most surprising thing about a eco-friendly car is how normal it looks. LISTEN (12 min)
Martin Eberhard and Mike Harrigan of Tesla Motors slow down long enough to tell us about the Tesla Roadster, an electric car that's faster than a Ferrari, and has a range of 250 miles. Running low? Just plug it into your wall.
LISTEN (12 min.)
Seatbelts. Airbags. Now Clean Air: California Deputy Attorney General Harrison Pollak breaks down the state's potentially groundbreaking lawsuit against the Big Six Automakers.
LISTEN (7 min)
Supported by the Center for American Progress, they are trying to cross the US using only E85 fuel (the ethanol blend). Read the blog and LISTEN (7 min)
Shana Weber reflects on an ongoing disinformation campaign by the Competitive Institute and Felix
Kramer, Founder
of CalCars talks about Plug-In-Hybrids.
LISTEN (7:50 min)
More information on Hybridcars.com
The hot new eco-trend, Carbon sequestration - how you can
offset your emissions - will be discussed with Jason Smith, CEO of driveneutral.org and Craig Coulter, Partnership Director of carbonfund.org. Listen (11 min)
We'll start by a few moments from the celebration in San Francisco of 35 years of environmental advocacy by NRDC, including a few words by MC Robert Redford. Listen (3 min)
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We'll get the latest on the effort to stop Congress from opening the Arctic Refuge for drilling from Sarah Wilhoite, Legislative Associate with Earthjustice .
Listen (3 min)
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We'll then turn to whats fueling the U.S. oil grab....our thirsty gas guzzlers. Niel Golightly, Ford's Sustainable Business Strategies Director, talks
about their efforts to improve the fleets lowest EPA mileage rating and
what he thinks of protests against the automaker scheduled for this
weekend. Listen (6 min)
We'll also learn why Toyota, - the darling of enviros - is the
target of a campaign by Union of Concerned Scientists and others. well
talk to Louise Bedsworth, a senior analyst with their Clean Vehicles Program. Listen (8 min)
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And then Jeff Slye, CEO of Business Evolution Consulting will tell us what he learned doing eco-makeovers for the hotel industry. Listen (12 min)
LISTEN to THE WHOLE SHOW (37 min)
We'll look at cars of the future (and a few
exotic prototypes of today) - Are We There Yet? Are hybrids part of the
answer to America's oil predicament and, if so, why aren't they making more of
them? And what about hydrogen - are we two, or twenty, years away from a fuel
cell future? We'll pose these questions, and more, to a panel of clean car technology
experts this weekend on EcoTalk including: 
Chris Onder with the ETH Pac Car2 project
Listen (11 min)
Philipp Dietrich with the Michelin Hy-Light 2 litre car,
Listen (6 min)
Daniel Sperling of UC Davis Listen (19 min)
LISTEN to the whole program (37 min)
The Canadian government,
apparently lightyears ahead of US, has succeeded in getting automakers
to voluntarily reduce their vehicles greenhouse gas emissions up to
nearly 6 milion tons by 2010. We'll get reaction and analysis on how
the historic agreement will impact the way cars are made for the rest
of us from Sierra Club's Dan Becker. Listen
The cartoon is by Andy Singer.
The Canadian government,
apparently lightyears ahead of US, has succeeded in getting automakers
to voluntarily reduce their vehicles greenhouse gas emissions up to
nearly 6 milion tons by 2010. We'll get reaction and analysis on how
the historic agreement will impact the way cars are made for the rest
of us from Sierra Club's Dan Becker. Also, a chat with Eco- evangelist
Ray Anderson, founder of Interface Carpets. We'll hear how he went from
"plunderer of the earth" to being voted "the greenest CEO in America". Listen
The cartoon is by Andy Singer.
Chelsea Sexton tells
how GM has requested police protection to been rush the EV1s they still
had in Burbank and move them to Arizona to crush them as fast as
possible. Feel free to post your comment on GM's blog.
Listen (12 min)
David Friedman, Research Director for the Clean Vehicles Program of the Union of Concerned Scientists explains why they are protesting a new ad campaign by the Auto Alliance (a trade group of 9 manufacturers) that claims that "autos manufactured today are virtually emission free". Meanwhile the manufacturers have filed a lawsuit to prevent California to promote stricter pollution standards.
Listen (7 min)
Our guests today are:
NRDC Legislative Director Karen Wayland talks about the Senate's decision to allow oil drilling in the National Arctic Refuge. Also read Orion.
David Friedman, Research Director for the Clean Vehicles Program of the Union of Concerned Scientists explains why they are protesting a new ad campaign by the Auto Alliance (a trade group of 9 manufacturers) that claims that "autos manufactured today are virtually emission free". Meanwhile the manufacturers have filed a lawsuit to prevent California to promote stricter pollution standards.
Chelsea Sexton tells how GM has requested police protection to been rush the EV1s they still had in Burbank and move them to Arizona to crush them as fast as possible.
Feel free to post your comment on GM's blog.
Navis Bermudez, Clean Water Advocate with the Sierra Club
in Washington explains how the new mercury regulations are going backwards allowing power plants to continue polluting. LISTEN to the whole program
Our guests for our
show include:
1. Chris Plaushin - National Manager of Regulatory
Affairs for AAA to discuss their new finding re the EPA's descrepancies with gas
mileage.
2. Emily Figdor - Clean Air Advocate for USPirg will explain how the Senate's Environment and Public Works Committee defeated S 131, the President's Air Pollution Plan and refused to weaken the Clean Air Act.
3. Dave Barthamus, Manager -- Public Policy,
Environment & Technology Communications for General Motors Corp. will talk about their project of
hydrogen car and present GM's point of view on crushing the electric vehicles, EV1s.
No info about that issue (yet?) on the GM's executive blog, the fastlane blog, but you can post a comment.
4. Chelsea Sexton , former GM employee questions GM
crushing the EV1s she loves and wants to keep running. In Burbank where GM keeps a few remaining EV1s she is part of a Vigil protest.
More info about the EV1s with the EV1 Club and the death of the electric car (PBS program). Listen
Ever wanted to ask top-level U.S. automakers why
they've been 'dragging their wheels' when it comes to taking the fast lane to a
cleaner car future? And what's up with Bill Ford Jr., the once great green hope
of enviros? Is he a true believer and if so why is he and other in the auto
industry spending millions to defeat California's emission-reduction laws?
Everything you ever wanted to ask Ford's top two environmental execs this
weekend, plus a report on the Red Carpet - Green Cars initiative at this week's
Academy Awards and a meeting with the Editor of The Natural Home and Garden Magazine.
Listen
Our first guest today is Wesley Warren, Director of Advocacy for NRDC who will comment about the 2005 federal budget with drastic cuts in the funding for the EPA and many environment programs.
The second segment is devoted to Al Gore's comment about the Kyoto protocol and the fact the US is not part of this treaty.
Lisa Hymas senior editor with Grist Magazine explains the importance of the new technologies and how the rest of the world will go ahead. She mentions Ross Gelbspan's initiative, Kyoto and beyond, the people's ratification. Sign the petition today!
Sarah from Oil Addicts Anonymous talks about their protest tour in the heartland of America to help break the country's oil addiction. Listen
