Archive for March, 2010
Ford and Microsoft partner on EV charging
Josie Garthwaite of earth2tech has details on the news announced today at the New York International Auto Show:
Pricing announced on Nissan Leaf!
It’s $32,780 with a $7,500 tax credit. Buyers can start placing orders April 20.
Watch the Automotive News videocast here:
http://www.autonews.com/article/20100330/VIDEO/303309964/1219
NY Auto Show à la Regis
We love “Live with Regis and Kelly” and were excited to watch today’s show, featuring green cars appearing at this year’s New York International Auto Show, which opens to the public Friday at the Jacob Javits Center. In fact, Barbara is “Live” herself — joined by The Washington Auto Show delegation to visit our colleagues at the New York show. Maybe she’ll meet Reeg!
Anyway, Alan Taylor, a contributing editor for Car and Driver, has been appearing on “Live” to offer viewers a sneak preview of what’s on display in New York. Taylor has already shown us “Fantasy Sports Cars” and some classy sedans — the 2011 Volvo C60 brakes on sensing a pedestrian!
Today’s show highlighted one of our favored subjects — green cars:
On display, were the Mercedes Benz SLS-AMG, based on the B-Class, never before available in this country. An electric vehicle powered by hydrogen, the SLS AMG earns as much as 86 miles per gallon and emits water. We also got a peek at the Honda CRZ-Z Hybrid, a hybrid-electric vehicle, and the Lincoln MKZ hybrid. The Lincoln not only gets 41 mpg in the city, but takes sustainability into account in its materials as well, using wood trim from sustainable forests.
For more on New York’s show, visit: www.autoshowny.com.
Laura Turner Seydel: Down to Earth
We got to hear from Laura Turner Seydel today at PRSA Georgia’s monthly luncheon. What a role model! Despite being the daughter of arguably the world’s greatest media mogul, Seydel exudes a sense of rugged independence (excuse the adaptation of a presidential slogan) and family values (oops, there we go again) about hard work and, frankly, accountability.
Of course, Seydel comes by environmentalism honestly as the daughter of an outdoorsman. But she boasts many of her own environmental bona fides. Among them, Seydel’s home was the first LEED-certified residence in the Southeast; she chairs the Captain Planet Foundation; and she serves as vice chair of the League of Conservation Voters’ Education Fund. Meanwhile, she rattles off alarming statistics with the kind of passion it takes to remedy injustice. For example, citing the League of Conservation Voters, today she noted that Georgia’s representatives can lay claim to one the country’s worst voting records on the environment. She also enjoined the crowd to drive a green car, noting her love of her Prius and the freedom of filling up only every other week.
I remember interviewing her as a reporter for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The story had to do with greening your Thanksgiving, and she spoke about conservation, like re-using beautiful ribbons, in the old-fashioned way. This is what our grandmothers did, they didn’t waste anything, she had said.
http://www.ajc.com/hotjobs/content/printedition/2008/11/22/greenthanks.html?cxntlid=inform_artr
For more green resources, Seydel encouraged people to visit her web site: http://www.lauraseydel.com.
Seydel was interviewed by Lewis Perkins, whose blog, “Semantics of Sustainbility” runs on FastCompany.Com and is a leading speaker on environmental responsibility. Perkins offered up recommended eco-resources on his blog as well: www.lewisperkins.com.
We’ll learn more about their ideas to save the planet –and ourselves — in the duo’s new book, “Green Heroes.”
It’s an apt title for the authors as well.
Our rebranding story
We’ve already talked about how much we love our friends at Citizen Studio, who did our rebranding with sustainability top of mind. They thought of everything, from printing just what we needed to using paper composed of recyclable content and from a company that purchases carbon offsets. Here’s their snapshot of the project: http://citizenstudio.com/work/pomerance
Every time we offer our card — a creamy colored stock with a shock of just the right shade of “warm purple” and our ideal message– we feel tremendous pride along with the opportunity to gush over Citizen Studio. It’s a privilege to promote the company’s acumen, insight and artistic talent.
