The National Sierra Club has posted this article on the UVSF's Living Green in Utah Valley Expo 2008. It's in their Grassroots Scrapbook web site. Click HERE or on the image at left to see the whole article. Nice work Marsha!!
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
UVSF's Second Annual Living Green Expo
The UVSF held its Living Green in Utah Valley 2008 Expo on September 6th. The "main event" was our awarding the first annual Earth Stewardship Award to BYU Professor Arden Pope for his pioneering work linking air pollution (PM 2.5) to human health problems and to Dr. Brian Moench and the Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment for their work in combating air pollution. This is our second annual Living Green expo. We expect to do this again next September. And again, our deepest appreciation to Marsha McLean for her tireless efforts to make this Expo happen. We also thank the community sponors of this event.
All photos ©JNWestwater
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Aug Meeting of the UVSF
On August 21st, the UVSF hosted a public discussion of two topics: "Troubled Bridges Over Troubled Water" (Utah Lake) and "Oil Shale or Snake-Oil Shale" in Utah. The Forum examined the environmental impacts of both proposed undertakings.
Sunday, August 10, 2008
Thursday, July 24, 2008
UVSF member, Ernie Rogers, drove 3,000 miles to Alaska averaging 65 mpg!
On Thursday, July 24th, UVSF member, aerospace engineer, physicist and gas mileage expert, Ernie Rogers, began his 3,000 mile driving trip with his grandson to Alaska. Ernie's goal was to reach Palmer, Alaska (north of Anchorage) on 42 gallons of fuel. That's averaging better than 70 mpg! Did he do it with is consumer model VW Beetle TDI? Ernie was confident--having won a national mileage contest two years running, getting 75 mpg each time.How did he attempt to do it? By applying the simple basic principles for saving money on gas--things that can work on any car--that he shared with our forum recently. As the sign behind Ernie suggests, he is truly a maverick, working to help the planet. Ernie's fuel saving challenge drive to Alaska is sponsored by the Utah Valley Sierra Forum.
Helping Ernie achieve this incredible mileage is the drag-spoiler he designed for his Beetle. Ernie's current work is building a very efficient engine that will allow a car to get at least 100 miles per gallon, using any fuel—ethanol, biodiesel, or gasoline could be used.
UPDATE: Ernie got a whopping 65 mpg overall on his trip. He's confident he could have beat his goal of 70 mpg if it had not been for unanticipated drag-increasing factors he encountered including headwinds, prolonged periods of rain and rough road, recently re-surfaced with "spray and chip."
photos©JNWestwater
Thursday, July 17, 2008
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