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[your_own_war]

From the New Economics Foundation in London

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[imimaginery]

do you have the link to the article about SUVs?

let's hang out?

[your_own_war]

I would google "New Economics Foundation".

....Friday? I'm hanging out with Alison at my house all day.... donin' PRHC stuffs.....

there is this, also.

[your_own_war]

Passive Driving: Why are we still exposed to pollution that kills 39,000 a year

www.monbiot.com, part 2

[your_own_war]

That the decline in some forms of pollution has - despite technological advances - stopped points to a series of staggering regulatory failures. The most immediate one has recently been uncovered by researchers at Oxford Brookes University. They found that the government tests designed to ensure that catalytic converters work properly are hopeless. In the laboratory, the converter in a modern car conforming to the latest regulations appears to have an efficiency of more than 99%. In the real world this falls to 72-75% (10). It looks as if the manufacturers are designing their cars to respond to the peculiarities of the government test, rather than to reduce emissions on the road

[anonymous]

hey em! i got super lucky and my mom bought me a ticket home for thanksgiving. i'll be in chicago tues nov 22 to tues nov 29, let's hang out woohoo!
-sophia