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"Prius. You know, movie stars. If that's not your bag, try the Mercury Mariner or Ford Explorer. The Ford hybrids are great to drive, and you won't stand out as you would in a prius. If all of us together break the shackles the oil industry has on the auto industry, it will be critical to our national security, as well as curbing greenhouse emissions. It will also help to create a more diversified and competitive marketplace—and we hold the power with one of the most important purchases, financially, most of us will ever make." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"We helped launch the prius that way, by getting over two hundred celebrities to drive the prius." Debbie told us that her organization also gives environmental awards. "The EMA awards are another opportunity for role modeling. It's our fundraiser and it's a way for us to have our corporate supporters get a little attention. But it's also a way for us to highlight the television shows and feature films which incorporate environmental messages. At the event, not only do we have an awards show with clips and information about the different entries, but then the party after is all organic." - David H. Rippe, Jared Rosen, The Flip: Turn Your World Around (Get the book.)

"Bye-bye Hummer, hello prius. Do you want your autopilot to keep driving you? If so, pay attention. FRYING YOUR HEART AND BRAIN So what does eating less meat have to do with decreasing heat production? Remember how you were so happy to be able to eat all those "free" protein calories in the Teardown phase? Now put your hand on your dog or cat and feel how much warmer it is than you. In fact, the expression "it's a three-dog night" refers to the ability of canines to warm up your bed on a cold night. Do you remember why carnivores sleep all of the time?" - Dr. Steven R. Gundry, Dr. Gundry's Diet Evolution: Turn Off the Genes That Are Killing You - And Your Waistline - And Drop the Weight for Good (Get the book.)

"Companies can learn the following lessons from Toyota's success with the Prius: ¦ Aim to produce green products that are no different than their "regular" counterparts in branding, price, use, or performance. ¦ Emphasize the cool factor behind environmental innovations whenever possible. ¦ Seed innovative new products among celebrities —actors, musicians, athletes, and other trendsetters—to give them even more of a cool factor, jm M resources Green Marketing: Opportunities for Innovation in the New Marketing Age by Jacquelyn A. Ottman (BookSurge Publishing, 2." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) "Fanatical user groups dedicated to everything from prius hybrids to soap operas don't just bring the kind of publicity money literally can't buy, but they're also the first to cry havoc over a product's faults. The result is that it's growing harder for companies to get away with stuff—corporate crime and shoddy quality quickly find their way to the Net. Even in remote corners of the world, blunders and bad behavior are ever more likely to be captured on video and phoned in over a satellite." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) "The curves on a prius automobile share a digital handprint with eyeglasses and ballpoint pens. While still in its virtual, 3-D form, digitized design is just information: we can e-mail a half-formed 3-D object to Singapore, and have someone manipulate it and pass it back. With the right technology, we can test and even prototype the thing on demand. This is truly remarkable: digital product design is still a new field, and it wasn't long ago that a standing army of machinists and draftspeople was needed to crank out detailed, hand-machined prototypes in model shops." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"The Ford hybrids are great to drive, and you won't stand out as you would in a prius. If all of us together break the shackles the oil industry has on the auto industry, it will be critical to our national security, as well as curbing greenhouse emissions. It will also help to create a more diversified and competitive marketplace—and we hold the power with one of the most important purchases, financially, most of us will ever make. We are all talking about the hydrogen highway, but we can't get on it until we take a test drive." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.) "They made the prius to look the way it does so that it screams, 'Hey, I'm an environmentalist. Look at me! Look at what I am doing for the environment.' We didn't do that. We created the Escape to look like any other car. We did this on purpose." I asked him if we could drive free form, but he told me, "Dearborn gave us a prescribed route we have to take." "What's the difference in price between a nonhybrid Escape and this one?" I said. "Well, that can vary," he said. "You could pay an additional three thousand dollars, or more, if you really add on the extras. It depends on what you want." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"Toyota: Green without Compromise hnhhuu prius, Toyota's celebrated gas-electric hybrid, may be the first major consumer product to fit practically all of the major criteria for success in the green-consumer marketplace: it comes from a trusted company and can be bought wherever the company's products are sold; it looks and feels like a "conventional" product and doesn't require consumers to change their use habits; it is (almost) comparably priced with similar cars; it can save consumers money to operate; and it is significantly greener than its conventional competition." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"It's as simple as adding more batteries and a plug to hybrids such as the prius." The plug-in hybrid electric vehicles are superhybrids with larger batteries. "This gives drivers the ability to run entirely on electric power at highway speeds for 20-plus miles. For long trips, the battery never runs down."29 In New York City, the big question, however, is how much legroom commuters expect from their taxis. Environmentalists in New York City were keenly interested in seeing some of the taxi fleet converted to hybrids." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"Toyota's prius is so popular that there is a six-month waiting list. Another step toward the Right-Side Up world is the fact that enterprising inventors have taken these hybrids, reworked the design, and achieved 250 miles per gallon, proving that major fuel efficiency can be had if the desire is there. In the energy sectors beyond ttansportation—industry, commercial and public, and residential—there are readily available solutions that only require common sense and the will to act. Treat the earth The answer can be summed up in one word: renewables. well It was not That's right." - David H. Rippe, Jared Rosen, The Flip: Turn Your World Around (Get the book.)

"Toyota Prius The Prius' gasoline engine provides 58 horsepower, and its electric motor produces another 40 horsepower. An onboard computer decides automatically when each power source should be drawn upon. Working together, they make a very nimble little car. The prius already has been selling briskly for two years in Japan. The Japanese model gets 66 miles per gallon. It can travel from New York City to Chicago—more than 800 miles?on a single tank of gasoline. The American model has slightly more power, but still gets excellent mileage." - Denis Hayes, The Official Earth Day Guide to Planet Repair (Get the book.)

"Because I see a six-month waiting list for the prius that has been in effect for years now. People do get the connection between 9/11 and our consumption of oil. When you remember that fifteen of the nineteen hijackers had Saudi passports, you just have to follow the money. Where does that money come from if fifteen hijackers had Saudi passports? Well, it comes from oil!" We Have the Power! Viable, real-world technologies based on renewal energy sources are now common. Consumer demand drives the price and adoption rate of these critical innovations." - David H. Rippe, Jared Rosen, The Flip: Turn Your World Around (Get the book.) "We love it when the TV shows Alicia Silverstone walking out of the market and getting into her prius holding canvas shopping bags. We try to get these celebrities to be conscious that what they do in their personal life can be inspirational for their fans. "In fact, I joke around that we teach celebrities how to shop. Because the reality is that everybody goes out and buys something every day. If they shop at the companies that are green and have an environmental consciousness, and make a show of supporting them, then their viewers and fans may follow suit." - David H. Rippe, Jared Rosen, The Flip: Turn Your World Around (Get the book.)

"Prius to test-drive for two weeks. I put it through the wringer, from the Pacific slope rainforest to the high desert. I used it in daily commuting over the steep hills near my home in Seattle. I took it on a 500-mile swing over the Cascade Mountains and through the Yakima Reservation to the Columbia River Gorge without refueling. The prius accelerates swiftly, brakes crisply, lopes up mountains like a goat, and maintains good contact with the road through curves. Very comfortable for two passengers, it is as comfortable as any compact car for four." - Denis Hayes, The Official Earth Day Guide to Planet Repair (Get the book.) "Toyota's tentative marketing slogan for the prius is "Energy Efficiency with No Compromises." In the intelligently designed cockpit, everything is where it should be. You can turn on a nifty little liquid crystal screen that shows you graphically whether the gasoline engine and/or the electric motor are running, whether the batteries are being recharged or drawn down, what the external temperature is, and assorted other information. Unlike the EV1 and the Honda Insight, the prius does not have a radically different shape." - Denis Hayes, The Official Earth Day Guide to Planet Repair (Get the book.) "Working together, they make a very nimble little car. The prius already has been selling briskly for two years in Japan. The Japanese model gets 66 miles per gallon. It can travel from New York City to Chicago—more than 800 miles?on a single tank of gasoline. The American model has slightly more power, but still gets excellent mileage. It meets California's Super Ultra Low Emission Vehicle (SULEV) pollution standard—which will not even go into effect until 2004. In the summer of 1999, Toyota loaned me the first U.S. prototype prius to test-drive for two weeks." - Denis Hayes, The Official Earth Day Guide to Planet Repair (Get the book.)

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