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Study Says US Can Save $25M per Day Reducing Idling in Commercial Fleets
2013-04-25 03:27:38| AutomotiveDigest.com - Automotive Industry News
Fleetmatics Group says that reducing idling time on the US commercial vehicles could considerably lower fuel consumption and save commercial fleets up to $25 million per day. Data from Fleetmatics research of more than 331,000 subscriber vehicles shows that vehicles operating without a fleet management solution may idle 96 minutes daily. Fleet owners may reduce [...]The Article Study Says US Can Save $25M per Day Reducing Idling in Commercial Fleets appeared first on Automotive Digest.
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This faith in the markets is misplaced: only governments can save our living planet
2013-04-24 09:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: In other ages, states sought to seize as much power as they could. Today, the self-hating state renounces its powers. Governments anathematise governance. They declare their role redundant and illegitimate. They launch furious assaults on their own branches, seeking wherever possible to lop them off. This self-mutilation is a response to the fact that power has shifted. States now operate at the behest of others. Deregulation, privatisation, the shrinking of the scope, scale and spending of the...
We can save Iraq's 'Garden of Eden'
2013-04-23 09:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Scientist: Engineer Azzam Alwash is intent on restoring the fabled Mesopotamian marshes in southern Iraq that Saddam Hussein tried to wreck Some say the marshes of southern Iraq are the origin of the Garden of Eden story. Why did Saddam Hussein drain them? He said it was to make dry land for agriculture. He dug canals and diverted the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, causing 90 per cent of the marshes to dry out. But really, he saw the Marsh Arabs who lived there, fishing, cutting reeds and tending water...
Alumnae of New Orleans girls' high school step in to save it
2013-04-22 19:04:00| American School & University
Group says it will buy the Xavier University Preparatory High School building and keep the school operating. Schoolhouse Beat read more
Can enviro-optimists save the movement from itself?
2013-04-20 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Globe and Mail: Bill McKibben, the firebrand leader of the crusade to kill the Keystone XL oil pipeline, is losing the battle for hearts and minds. Perhaps that's why he sounds so depressed. One of the most environmentally friendly presidents is in the White House, and he still might not kill it off. "Go past a certain point," warned Mr. McKibben in The Guardian, "and we may no longer be able to affect the outcome in ways that will prevent long-term global catastrophe. We're clearly nearing that limit." Mr....
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