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Green-Up Your Life! Walk more and drive smarter

Posted in Global Warming, tagged bike, Carbon Dioxide, climate, climate change, driving, environement, exercise, fuel efficiency, Gas, Global Warming, green, greenhouse gas emissions, hybrid, public transportation, transportation, walk on November 4, 2009 | 2 Comments »

By Kirsten Bokenkamp According to the Environmental Defense Fund, driving leads to more than 330 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions each year in the United States alone. This amounts to more than 20% of the nation’s carbon dioxide emissions! In an effort to cut down on greenhouse gases, the Obama administration’s new fuel efficiency [...]

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Austin Has Safe Routes to School

Posted in Global Warming, tagged Austin, austin safe routes to school, biking, ibike, iwalk, new york, Public Citizen, public transportation, Texas, walk to school on October 15, 2009 | 1 Comment »

I lived in New York City before I moved to Austin. NY is a city that glorifies walking. Almost everyone walked everywhere and having a car wasn’t considered that “cool.” When I told one of my friends from NY that I was moving to Texas, he said, “People in Texas, if they wanted had to [...]

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Stimulating Facts on the Green Stimulus

Posted in Efficiency, Energy, Global Warming, Renewables, tagged climate change, Energy Efficiency, green spending measures, house of representatives, mass transit, president obama, public transportation, renewable energy, republican minority whip eric cantor, senate, speaker nancy pelosi, stimulus package, ways and means committee on January 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »

This week the House passed the $819 billion stimulus package, and even more exciting is that over $100 billion of the package is allocated to green spending. Amazingly, the package passed without a single Republican vote. Only 11 Democrats voted against the bill, with a final vote of 244-188. Here is a breakdown of the [...]

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