As Matt Power notes in this month’s issue of Wired, hybrids get great gas mileage but it takes 113 million BTUs of energy to make a Toyota Prius. Because there are about 113,000 BTUs of energy in a gallon of gasoline, the Prius has consumed the equivalent of 1,000 gallons of gasoline before it reaches [...]
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The deadline is June 27, 2008 for the submission of names.
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Myanmar is trying to pick up the pieces after a cyclone tore through the Irrawaddy Delta. Aid is being hampered by the ruling military junta; the same people who are largely responsible for the country’s lack of preparedness. I’ll post more info on where to send donations in another post.
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I forgot to mention that I saw this amazing special on National Geographic earlier this week. The premise of the show is to illustrate how much resources each human being consumes in a lifetime.
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