MetaFilter posts tagged with Gas and environment

Maybe they're talking about the paint job

dead_ — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 09:25:16 -0800

A two-ton 21-mpg 8-passenger V8 Chevy Tahoe? America, meet your 2008 Green Car of the Year!

Hummers for all, thanks to Apartheid and the Nazis.

Meatbomb — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 07:47:19 -0800

urban jungle

huckhound — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 07:51:17 -0800

the new urban jungle . . . is a growing movement led by cities like San Francisco, New York, and Leiden to restore active and vibrant natural systems in urban areas. Far from the eden-like depictions of nature of yesteryear, i.e. the garden of earthly delights (nonetheless, still attracting some dynamic new christian converts), the movement has morphed into today's backyard and grassroots environmental movement which is more and more a picture of hybridity, compromise, mixed-use, and ultimately, taking nature out of the walled islands of zoos, aquaria, national parks and other thick-walled institutions and offering a different kind of everyday "unmediated" community experience with the new urban wilderness. VIDEO LINK

bp's environmental makeover

gottabefunky — Thu, 19 Dec 2002 09:13:50 -0800

Beyond petroleum? British Petroleum’s recent $200-million makeover into sunny-logoed bp seems to respond to mounting concerns over pollution, global warming, and wars for oil. By advocating alternatives to the very product that has made it the world’s seventh-largest company, it also seems like economic suicide. In accordance with their environmental goals, they've helped release bald eagles in Manhattan and bring solar power to rural Tibet, but many remain unconvinced. Each bp ad ended with the same tagline: “It’s a start.” Is it?

semper — Wed, 05 Dec 2001 07:58:19 -0800

Cow Belching and it's effect on the Environment. Not only is it rude, but it also bad for the environment.

crunchland — Tue, 01 May 2001 08:54:00 -0800

He gives a whole new meaning to the word "Conservation may be a sign of personal virtue, but it is not a sufficient basis for a sound, comprehensive energy policy." NY Times