Green Options » 100% http://greenoptions.com/tag/100 Posts tagged '100%' Mon, 24 Aug 2009 18:31:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en X Prize Takes On GM’s 230 MPG Claims, Offers Free (and Fun!) MPGe Calculator http://gas2.org/2009/08/24/x-prize-takes-on-gms-230-mpg-claims-offers-free-and-fun-mpge-calculator/ http://gas2.org/2009/08/24/x-prize-takes-on-gms-230-mpg-claims-offers-free-and-fun-mpge-calculator/#comments Mon, 24 Aug 2009 18:31:01 +0000 Jo Borras http://gas2.org/2009/08/24/x-prize-takes-on-gms-230-mpg-claims-offers-free-and-fun-mpge-calculator/ MPGe Calculator

GM’s recent “230″ PR campaign (previously covered HERE and HERE) has certainly caused a lot of controversy, most of it centered on the fact that the EPA initially “backed away” from the automaker’s optimistic (?) Chevy Volt mileage claims.

Despite the fact that the 230 mpg rating will likely stand (once GM gets a final-production Volt into the hands of the EPA, that is), so much attention has been paid to the matter that the good in charge at Progressive’s Automotive X PRIZE decided it was time to chime in, asking “Is MPG still relevant?”

Short answer:  No.

Read the X Prize group’s long(er) answer, and learn about their proposed MPGe rating system, after the jump.

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]]> http://gas2.org/2009/08/24/x-prize-takes-on-gms-230-mpg-claims-offers-free-and-fun-mpge-calculator/feed/ Lesson One: Living Sustainably is Not Automatically Possible http://sustainablog.org/2008/05/19/lesson-one-living-sustainably-is-not-automatically-possible/ http://sustainablog.org/2008/05/19/lesson-one-living-sustainably-is-not-automatically-possible/#comments Mon, 19 May 2008 23:49:59 +0000 Caroline Savery http://sustainablog.org/2008/05/19/lesson-one-living-sustainably-is-not-automatically-possible/ Five months ago, from the comfort of my warm Pittsburgh apartment, and with all the cozy feelings accompanying a lovely Christmas vacation, I decided that it would be a great idea if I tried to live 100% environmentally sustainably for three months, from May to July. Plus, I could document the experience through an online webcast video series about living sustainably! I would call it, (drum roll please)… Sust Enable. It was too good to be true!

Vivid fantasies of learning new skills, while growing as a person and simultaneously being useful to humanity were extraordinarily titillating. How could I resist an idea like that? I got started on the planning right away. This was to be my opus.

Life is very different now.

screen shot from “Sust Enable”

I am two weeks in to the experimental adventure that I have been anticipating for many months. Fresh off of a grueling final semester of college, plus a stressful move, I also launched headfirst into a lifestyle transformation that I am still trembling from. Compound that adjustment period with a chaotic graduation day and a brutal poison ivy rash, and you have a pretty clear-cut recipe for a breakdown.

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