Let Them Eat Hummers
For years, we have been exporting pollution and excess to the rest of the world, in the form of gas hogs that don't work, suck up cash and destroy the environment.
For years, we have been exporting pollution and excess to the rest of the world, in the form of gas hogs that don't work, suck up cash and destroy the environment.
Glenn Hurowitz | Posted 11.24.2008 | Green
My intern, Meg Imholt, is also the president of EcoSense, American University's environmental group... the target of GM's latest cynical marketing attempt.
Steve Parker | Posted 10.02.2008 | Business
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Treehugger | Michael Graham Richard | Posted 09.24.2008 | Green
U.S. Military: Single-Largest Consumer of Oil in the World We constantly hear about how this or that car gets X miles per gallon, but we rarely hear a...
Posted 09.08.2008 | Business
General Motors's quest to sell its Hummer division may get a bit tougher after Tuesday. That is when Dan Towbin-whose dealerships grabbed national at...
Steve Parker | Posted 09.05.2008 | Business
The auto industry's US sales numbers for August are in, and Americans are again buying full-size pickups and SUVs. They are actually a "bright spot" i...
Steve Parker | Posted 08.28.2008 | Business
Should Chrysler, or two of the car-makers or even all three go bust, then, this time, the American people will pay the price, both literally and figuratively.
Clusterstock | Corey Lorinsky | Posted 08.18.2008 | Business
Despite how badly GM wants to dump the Hummer, a looming global recession (and of course high oil prices) may be putting the kibosh on that plan. Gen...
Paul Peete | Posted 07.18.2008 | Green
How ironic that the poster boy for gas guzzling sizeable SUVs morphed into a psuedo-democratic, Green governor just in time to see gas near 5 dollars a gallon and its effects rippling through the economy.
Huffington Post | Sean Morrow | Posted 06.20.2008 | Green
Is FOX News taking a green outlook? In a piece aired on June 20th on the normally conservative station, Neil Cavuto grills Mayor Rudy Clay of Gary, In...
Arianna Huffington | Posted 06.07.2008 | Politics
It was quite a week. Barack Obama became the Democratic nominee -- rousingly endorsed by Hillary Clinton. Oil hit an all-time high; Bush's approval rating hit an all-time personal low. McCain hammered Obama for being willing to meet with our enemies on the same day a new poll showed 67 percent of the public agrees with Obama. A Senate report re-re-re-confirmed that the Bush administration led us into war under false pretenses. Tom DeLay proved he hasn't lost a step -- or gained an IQ point -- calling Obama "a Marxist." Bill Clinton erupted. Again. My good buddy Al Franken moved another step closer to the U.S. Senate. And the Hummer hit a dead-end. GM killed the electric car; soaring gas prices killed the Hummer. Karma all around.
Jessica Jensen | Posted 06.06.2008 | Green
Dear Rick: we'd like to suggest you go a step further and acknowledge that the Hummer was an anachronistic tragedy whose time has come to disappear from the face of the Earth.
Stephen Ducat | Posted 06.04.2008 | Green
In the view of conservatives, just as women are there to serve and must know their place, so must the Earth (along with its animals and indigenous inhabitants) be used as a resource that requires no reciprocity.
Patt Morrison | Posted 01.02.2008 | Living
The holidays do tend to warm up the fellow-feeling quotient, and put you off your cynic's game. I should have known better than to expect better.
NPR | Frank Langfitt | Posted 12.07.2007 | Business
The Smart car is coming to America. Next month, dealers in the U.S. will begin selling the tiny vehicle best known for slipping into tight parking sp...
Richard Reiss | Posted 11.06.2007 | Living
By reaching talented, creative people while they're still in school, and giving them the opportunity to investigate subjects of importance to their lives, we can both change their awareness and add to the public dialogue essential to a functioning democracy.
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Scott Thill | Posted 12.04.2008 | Business