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Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown David Steinman See book keywords and concepts

They predict that hybrid cars will make up 80 percent of the overall car market by 2015. I don't think the actual number will be that high, but it will someday be significantly higher than what J.D. Power predicted; plus, you can expect many more fuel variations to emerge rapidly and far greater mpg with the hybrids spawning new add-on technologies, reflecting greater consumer choice in preferred fuel. Here are some reasons why getting yourself into a more fuel efficient car makes sense. Right now, the auto industry accounts for at least 20 percent of U.S.

Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century Alex Steffen See book keywords and concepts

We can buy organic food, use energy-saving lightbiilbs, drive hybrid cars. But even if we do all of those things, we are still probably sporting duds that support some pretty abominable practices. Unfortunately, buying an organic cotton T-shirt has less of an impact than buying an organic apple, as there are many more steps between the cotton field and the T-shirt we put on than there are between the orchard and the apple we eat.

Biofuels, like hybrid cars and rooftop solar panels, are a kind of bridge technology, helping us get where we need to go without cutting us off from our existing systems. Ethanol, an alcohol produced in a variety of ways from cereal grain or biomass waste, is used in gasoline blends with up to 85 percent ethanol (in a mixture known as E85). Vehicles that can burn either gasoline or ethanol blends are called flexible-fuel vehicles, and there are millions of them on the highways in the United States and around the world.

Then the CEO's marketing director brings him some research showing that an increasing number of people are willing to pay a premium for high-performance green products (which is already true, as the popularity of hybrid cars shows), and that some country clubs are already responding to their members' requests to use fewer pesticides, less water, and more native plants on their golf courses (which is also already true).

Geely Motors, China's biggest privately owned carmaker, plans to make hybrid cars available by the 2008 Olympics; Geely joins state-supported automaker Chery, which expects to bring hybrids to market by late 2006. More advanced local designs are on the drawing board, too, such as the Aspire electric car and the Spring Light 3, a fuel-cell hybrid with a five-thousand-dollar target price. . China is also currently the world's number-one market for electric vehicles.

Right: Actor Leonardo DiCaprio is among a number of celebrities who've taken a high-profile stand in favor of hybrid cars, becoming a great advocate of alternative transportation and the environment. ¦ Brand green product lines with names that emphasize nonenvironmental benefits.

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