For the last 30 years, vehicle mileage has improved very little. During this period billions of dollars were invested in “breakthrough” technologies such as fuel cells, diesel/hybrids and electric vehicles which never came to market. It’s time to find a real alternative that cuts CO2 emissions. This book provides a rallying point for transportation specialists, community builders and citizens to take responsibility for dramatically reducing personal transport energy consumption. Download or order your copy in our bookstore.
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U.S. homes generate 27 percent of the nation’s CO2 emissions. Our homes are large, poorly insulated, with a large number of energy- wasting machines. Today we know how to build homes that use 80-90 percent less heating and cooling energy – it’s time to start.
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Cars generate 24 percent of U.S. CO2 emissions. A move to electric cars would only be going from oil to coal, a reduction of only about 15 percent. If we shared rides we could cut CO2 emissions 80 percent – practically overnight – by simply changing our lifestyle.
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Food production generates 18 percent of U.S. CO2. To reduce these emissions will require changing what kinds of food we eat, how we grow it, process it, transport it and store it. But the most important step is changing our diet by cutting out factory meat and dairy products.
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