Some headlines on climate change from around the web:
• Toyota is pushing for 'more modest' proposed fuel economy standards in the US. The company known for its fuel-efficient hybrids is joining the Big 3 US automakers in pushing for more modest fuel efficiency standards. Environmental groups such as the National Resources Defense Council are turning up the heat on Toyota.
• More on fuel economy standards for cars from the Motor City Blogman at Motor Trend:
All the world's automakers are worried about how they're going to meet coming standards, or should be. Mercedes, BMW, VW/Audi, Porsche, Nissan, Honda, the French, even Toyota with its big Lexus models trickling into Europe, are likely delaying and canceling future product in anticipation of what the U.S. and the European Union will do about fuel economy and emissions standards.
It was in response to a NYTimes column by Thomas Friedman ripping Michigan Democrat John Dingell for opposed the new increased fuel economy standards.
• More reasons why ethanol won't solve all the energy or climate change problems.
First of all, ethanol is not currently produced in a "renewable" manner -- the production process is almost completely dependant on fossil fuels such as coal, natural gas and diesel. Furthermore, a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that even the nonrenewable production of ethanol could displace at most 14 percent of U.S. gasoline consumption -- if all of the corn grown by American farmers were devoted to ethanol production.
• Blogger and 'Green Girl wannabe' La Maguerite points you in direction of a new Wiki project at Do the Green Thing.
The Wiki Thing is the most serious part of Green Thing, the place where The Green Thing community can post pieces of research or points of view about the real carbon impact of individual actions.
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