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That doesn't mean we are powerless. There are steps we can take now: adopting combined heat-and-power systems; switching from coal to natural gas; embracing renewable and nuclear energy; and favoring more fuel-efficient and hybrid vehicles. In addition, we can reduce and offset up to 20% of our emissions by conserving and restoring the world's forests. Forests not only store twice as much carbon as there is in the atmosphere, but constantly reabsorb it through photosynthesis. Nature's carbon-storage technology is extraordinarily efficient and can mitigate climate change better over the next 50 years than...
...Trevor J. Bakker ’10 said that he appreciated the parallels made by Calkins. “I liked his emphasis on smaller forms of transportation—electric bicycles—alternatives to what are already called ‘alternatives,’ hybrid cars,” he said...
...second Hollywood, it's the actor Ed Begley Jr., who's been evangelizing the environment since the 1970s, back when we were more worried about an ice age than global warming. The green-living Begley is the star in the electric car - though he's since switched to a hybrid - and his career is a handy measure of how much environmentalism has saturated Hollywood. Organic to his biodegradable core, Begley says that when he first began to preach the gospel of green, telling his friends and colleagues about his forays into recycling or alternative power, "they thought it seemed kind...
Here's what might happen. The major economies will have to shift decisively to low-emission electricity plants, partly through increased use of renewable and nuclear energy, and partly through carbon capture and sequestration. Automobile emissions will be slashed through new designs, such as the "plug-in hybrid" technology, in which cars will be powered by a mix of gasoline and electricity and will be plugged into the wall socket for an overnight charge. Large industrial emitters like cement, steel and petrochemical factories will also have to capture their own carbon dioxide emissions as well. And our buildings will...
...Rest for Eco-Heroes It's great that Toyota's Prius design appeared in TIME's "Heroes of the Environment" issue [Oct. 29]. I have appreciated Toyota's manufacturing vision ever since they launched a low-emission car a decade ago. The gasoline-electric hybrid Prius is both a feat of excellent marketing and technology. But Toyota ought to do more and more in combating the dangers of the greenhouse effect. The time has come for them to install this hybrid system in all their cars, and for other manufacturers to follow suit. Yoshitsugu Kato, Gifu, Japan