The $6.66-a-Gallon Solution

By Simon Romero
The New York Times
April 30, 2005

OSLO, April 23 – Car owners in the United States may grumble as the price of gasoline hovers around $2.25 a gallon. Here in Norway, home to perhaps the world’s most expensive gasoline, drivers greeted higher pump prices of $6.66 a gallon with little more than a shrug.

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Trespass: Genetic Engineering as the Final Conquest

Claire Hope Cummings
World Watch Magazine
January/February 2005

Hidden inside Hilgard Hall, one of the oldest building on the campus of the University of California at Berkeley, is a photograph that no one is supposed to see. Its a picture of a crippled and contorted corncob that was not created by nature, or even by agriculture, but by genetic engineering. The cob is kept in a plastic bin called the monster box, a collection of biological curiosities put together by someone who works in a secure biotechnology research facility.

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Green trends growing in popularity

The forecast for Earth Day 2005 is gloomy with a chance of doomsday.

By Joan Lowy
Scripps Howard News Service
April 12, 2005

Just last month, a sweeping study written by nearly 1,400 scientists concluded that mankind has changed the natural environment of the planet faster and more extensively over the past 50 years than at any other time in human history.

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Hybrid-Car Tinkerers Scoff at No-Plug-In Rule

By Danny Hakim
The New York Times
April 2, 2005

DETROIT, April 1 – Ron Gremban and Felix Kramer have modified a Toyota Prius so it can be plugged into a wall outlet.

This does not make Toyota happy. The company has spent millions of dollars persuading people that hybrid electric cars like the Prius never need to be plugged in and work just like normal cars. So has Honda, which even ran a commercial that showed a guy wandering around his Civic hybrid fruitlessly searching for a plug.

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