SUSTAIN YOURSELF

TREE HUGGERS - California-based Phoenix Motorcars is in the game to mass
produce full-function, freeway-speed electric automobiles; their first
model was a reproduction of a 1937 Ford Cabriolet, but they've moved on
to light pickups, small vans and a mid-size SUV coming in mid-2007. With
a minimum range of 120 miles per charge and max speed of 95 mph, the
vehicles compare favorably with most other electric vehicles in
production.

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2006/09/phoenix_motorca.php#perma

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TREE HUGGER - Hertz is this week launching its "Green Collection" of
rental cars (with USEPA ratings of 28+ mpg, highway). "More than half of
the 35,000 vehicles are Smart Way certified, the highest EPA marks for
limiting air pollution and greenhouse gases. Travelers can reserve one
of 42 types of cars, including the Toyota Camry, Ford Fusion and Buick
LaCrosse, at 50 airports around the country".

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2006/09/hertz_fearturin.php#perma

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SOLAR REFLECTIVE PAINT

TREE HUGGER - One of our very early posts was on the enviro benefits of
Green Roofs. . . But if you have some deep seating aversion to growing
grasses and strawberries on your upstairs, you might alternatively be
curious about Texcote. It claims to be 10 times thicker than normal
paint, and to be infused with a special reflective pigment. Now your
house, or commercial premises, unlike a Stealth bomber, may not need to
reduce its radar signature, but reducing roof temps by 40°F is a
practical application of the technology. Apparently the US govt think
such energy reduction possibilities might have merit, so are said to be
researching just what the savings could be. And the stuff is robust, in
some instances not needing a repaint for 40 years. Yet for all this
heavy-dutyness, it is said to have a low volatile organic compound
emissions.

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2006/08/texcote_solar_r.php#perma

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LONDON SUBWAY CARS BEING RECYCLED AS WORKSPACES

TUBE LINES, UK - A new charity is helping Tube Lines, the company
responsible for rebuilding the Tube's busiest lines, to recycle obsolete
Tube carriages which have been lying disused for years. Over the weekend
six old Jubilee line carriages were removed from sidings in Uxbridge and
taken for cleaning up before being turned into workspace for start-up
creative businesses by Village Underground, a new charity which supports
new small companies.

Typically carriages which no longer serve the traveling public are taken
to pieces, the metals separated and the various parts disposed of, some
into landfill

http://www.tubelines.com/news/releases/200608/20060803a.aspx

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