So often when I first tell someone about this blog, people want to know the most important and/or easiest thing they can do to live “greener”. I smile and tell them it is so much easier than you think: walk, bike, or skate – don’t drive.

It not only makes sense but has a ring of poetic justice to it too: maybe the American dream is what is indeed killing America.

Suburbia. Suburban sprawl. The Suburban?

I recently read this great article on MSN.com (of all places!) regarding the new way to calculate a vehicle’s gasoline efficiency – not the Miles Per Gallon we’re all accustomed to but Miles Per Dollar. Writer Lawrence Ulrich admits that this fluctuates more than mpg since the price of a gallon of gasoline changes daily, but perhaps it would be more effective in making car-dependent segments of our society (hello Los Angeles!) review their dependence and efficiency.
After reading this article, I stopped to calculate our car’s efficiency. We have a …