Count Your Blessings
What You Sow, You Shall Reap
If you want to be loved, love and be lovable.—— Benjamin Franklin
Do You Know the Golden Rule?
Try as we might, it's impossible to break the Golden Rule. This supreme universal law of cause and effect encompasses all other truths. Whatever we put energy into—whether it's a thought, a word, or an action—eventually returns to us like a boomerang. Both the positive and the negative energies we send out into the world roll back like snowballs, picking up size and speed as they return.
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Summertime Sizzlin’
Selecting Sustainability
Where there's smoke there's fire...so turn your taste buds on high as you light up those grills for delectable global flavors right in your own backyard. Whether your preference is tofu, vegetables, meat, poultry, fish or shellfish; this month we're featuring a variety of recipe selections to help you enjoy this sizzlin' summer season.
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An Important New Documentary
Who Killed
the Electric Car?
Many audience members watching the previews that accompanied the showings of the recent, much-heralded film of Al Gore's lucid and alarming examination of global warming, An Inconvenient Truth, found themselves riveted by a trailer for another film that promised to tell the story of a murder not unrelated to the larger story they were at the theater that night to learn about. It is a whodunit of a different sort, not set at an English manor house with a suspicious butler or among corrupt L.A. cops. Its title is Who Killed the Electric Car? , and its victim is a zero-emissions technology that for a few years held the promise of creating a beachhead for non-polluting vehicles within the American automobile industry. Ironically it was created in response to the very problem that the Gore film spends two-and-a-half hours so carefully illustrating: the runaway build-up of the greenhouse gases that are ever more quickly destabilizing the Earth's climate.
Every gallon of gas from the internal-combustion engine adds nineteen pounds of carbon dioxide to the earth's atmosphere. At that rate it isn't difficult to see why the average driver contributes just under five-and-a-half tons of CO2 to our air in the course of a year: then multiply that times all the drivers in, say, San Diego, and the scope of the problem becomes even clearer. The electric car, by contrast, produces no emissions at all. A General Motors demonstration model at a car show in Los Angeles in 1990 inspired the California Air Resources Board (CARB) to adopt the toughest standards that had ever been established in the nation. It mandated that by 1998, 2% of all the vehicles sold in California should be Zero-Emission Vehicles (ZEVs). By 2003, that figure was to rise to 10%
“As we put the whole chain of events together, I realized our tale was a lot more than just a car story. It demonstrated why America is having such a
tough time getting out of the 20th century and breaking it’s addiction to gasoline.”
—Director Chris Paine
See the interview with Chelsea Sexton of PlugInAmerica.com
All photos this section courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics.
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Plug in America Director
Talking with Chelsea Sexton
Chelsea Sexton, who appears in Who Killed the Electric Car?, was one of the team that General Motors hired to promote the EV1. Laid off in late 2001 when the company dropped its support of the car, she has become a strong voice in the efforts to save and promote the electric car. TLC's David Cohen spoke to her the day after the film had its premiere in Los Angeles.
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