Energy Vision is a national non-profit organization analyzing and promoting ways to make a swift transition to pollution-free renewable energy sources and to the clean, petroleum-free transportation fuels of the future.

What is Unique about Energy Vision

• The in-depth expertise of our Associates
regarding a wide range of alternative fuel
vehicles, including natural gas, bio-based,
hydrogen, hybrid, and fuel cell vehicles

• The reputation for credible solution-oriented
findings that members of our team have gained
from their reports which are used worldwide

• A commitment to the publicity, education and
outreach that can translate information into
concrete policies and alternative fuels initiatives

Learn more about our Goals.

EV’s work will be featured on G Word, a show highlighting innovations in the environmental movement on the Discovery Channel’s vanguard network Planet Green. The segment “Green Garbage Trucks” will air on July 22nd at 7:00pm EST.

EV President was recently interviewed for an article in the Canadian Press,Using Organic Waste to Fuel Your Car, and subsequently participated in an interview on a Calgary-based radio station on biomethane.

EV President will be speaking in Toronto June 3rd at the Low Carbon Fuel Standards Workshop for Canada on how heavy duty trucks and buses powered by clean natural gas instead of diesel offer a prime strategy for cutting greenhouse gases. The workshop aims to educate and inform participants, and to identify and discuss key issues and implications related to designing and implementing an effective and efficient low carbon fuel standard in a Canadian context.

Hamilton Township becomes the first in New Jersey to contract for natural gas refuse and recycling haulers to move toward its goal of cleaner fuels. EV worked closely with members of the government and the alternative fuel refuse industry to realize this project that helps New Jersey on its way toward cleaner air and sustainable fuel sources.

Read Trash enters a new era in Hamilton [subscription required] to learn more.

Actor Blythe Danner, Energy Vision President Joanna Underwood, NYC Environmental, Community & Energy Activists and “Green” Entrepreneurs Unveil New Natural Gas Garbage Trucks at Union Square Event.

Energy Vision Report Reveals These Trucks Put New York City on the Path to Healthier Air, Lower Asthma Rates, Reduced Greenhouse Gases, and Energy Independence

Find our new report among our other publications

See pictures from the event

Energy Vision had a terrific press conference to release our report, Fueling a Greener Future. Along with great EV research and a strong roster of speakers, two gorgeous new natural gas refuse trucks, a natural gas street sweeper and Blythe Danner combined to make the event a huge success.

EV on the Huffington Post

EV on the Green Daily

EV on CNBC

EV on Plenty Magazine

Read about EV’s successful New Jersey Alternative Fuels Conference and the exciting future of natural gas and biomethane in the refuse hauling sector.

EV’s Spring 2008 Newsletter

Ethanol programs have largely been viewed as a win-win situation, in which agricultural, environmental, and energy policy objectives would converge to create a single strategy that would benefit states and the country overall. Ethanol production would achieve a number of important agricultural policy objectives, such as creating jobs, increasing crop prices, and increasing tax revenues from the agricultural sector, while creating a fuel that would ostensibly help displace the use of imported oil.

Viewed up close, unfortunately, ethanol made from corn emerges not as a win-win but, at best, as a win/lose strategy for many other states). While state ethanol programs may achieve short-term gains for their agricultural (largely corn-growing) community and for ethanol producers, most will actually be producing a fuel that:

• Can play just a minor role in displacing oil in the near term while consuming corn – a food crop increasingly needed for feeding the world’s hungry peoples.
• Will add to inflationary pressures by driving up the cost of animal and food products dependent on corn.
• Has debatable net pollution reduction benefits and that requires major use of non-renewable land and energy resources to produce, resulting in little or no net energy benefit.
• In addition to playing a minor role in displacing oil in the short term, may contribute little or nothing to addressing the key challenge that this country faces in the long term – namely, the need to shift away from oil-derived fuels altogether to the new fuels and advanced propulsion systems needed for a sustainable energy future.
• Is produced and able to compete in the marketplace only with huge public subsidies, diverting billions of dollars in public funds from pursuit of potentially better alternatives.

Energy Vision’s Critical Position Paper:

Ethanol - Assessing its Value as a Transportation Fuel