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Swedish Building Bike SuperHighways
In Sweden, city planners and the country’s traffic authority are looking into building a four-lane bike superhighway between the university town of Lund and Malmö, Sweden’s third-largest cities and one of its most diverse. Cities like London have invested in protected lanes that they call “bike superhighways,” but this one would be one of the [...]
EU Carbon Aviation Law
With the risk of a trade fight, U.S. airlines will be charged for their carbon emissions. U.S. airlines failed to block an EU law charging airlines flying to Europe for their carbon pollution. The decision by an EU court was widely hailed by environmentalists, but the Fitch ratings agency said it raised the specter of [...]
Electric Vehicles in IKEA stores
IKEA UK has already bought a giant wind farm and plans to run on 100% renewable energy. In the US, IKEA just announced that it is expanding solar installations to 75% of its stores. But clean energy is just one part of the puzzle. How are people supposed to get to these gigantic big box [...]
Green Sidewalk Makes Electricity
Paving slabs that convert energy from people’s footsteps into electricity are set to help power Europe’s largest urban mall, at the 2012 London Olympics site. The recycled rubber “PaveGen” paving slabs harvest kinetic energy from the impact of people stepping on them and instantly deliver tiny bursts of electricity to nearby appliances. The slabs can [...]
How Gas Prices Affect Driving
Americans love to gripe about high gas prices, but they actually pay some of the lowest fuel costs in the world. Part of the reason for this hidden discount is that lawmakers have refused to raise the federal gasoline tax since 1993. In fact the tax has lost value over time, since it’s not even [...]
Toyota and BMW Green Battery
Toyota, BMW To Work Together On Greener Car Battery. Auto giants Toyota and BMW agreed to collaborate on research for cleaner, next-generation car batteries,underlining the growing push in the industry for green technology. The agreement brings together Toyota Motor Corp., Japan’s No. 1 carmaker and a leader in gas-electric hybrids, and BMW AG of Germany, [...]
Vision 2040- Shipping
Global shipping companies unite for ‘Vision for 2040’ to address shipping industry emissions. The Sustainable Shipping Iniative (SSI) signatories are: 1 ABN AMRO bank N.V.2 BP Shipping 3 Bunge 4 Cargill 5 Carnival 6 China Navigation Co. 7 Daewoo Shipbuilding 8 Gearbulk 9 Lloyd’s Register 10 Maersk Line 11 Rio Tinto Marine 12 Royal Sun [...]
NY BikeSharing Program Launch
More than 10,000 communal bicycles will flood the New York city streets next summer as part of an ambitious bike-share plan. The program is launched by “Alta Bicycle Share Inc.” a Portland based company that already operates a bike sharing program in Boston and Washington. It purpose is to curb traffic and reduce emissions. The [...]
GE+GM push Chinese Electric Cars
General Electric and General MotorsCo. agreed Thursday on a pilot installation of electric vehicle charging stations in Shanghai, the latest step in the automaker’s plan to develop infrastructure in China to support sales of its Chevrolet Volt electric car. The companies gave no details about investment in the charging stations, which will include both GE’s [...]
Clean Air Cab
Clean Air Cab is an Arizona based carbon-neutral taxi service provider, and the second taxi fleet in the U.S. to use only hybrid vehicles. Based in Mesa, Arizona, it serves the Phoenix area with environmentally friendly transportation service by using clean automotive technology. GO GREEN AND SAVE SOME GREEN You’ll never pay a premium to be [...]
E-Vehicle Chargers
Coulomb Technologies is adding 150 ChargePoint car chargers to Boston. It is present in at least 14 countries and 10 US regions. Coulomb Technologies, Inc announced the expansion of the ChargePoint® Network into the Boston Metro area with more than 150 stations for electric vehicles. The stations are made available to the State through Coulomb’s $37 million [...]
2012 Fisker Karma
After years of hype, Leonardo DiCaprio finally got his hands on the most highly-anticipated and pricey hybrid car, the 2012 Fisker Karma. The very first car went to Silicon Valley-based investor Ray Lane, Fisker’s Chairman of the Board. The Fisker Karma represents a new era for the automotive luxury industry . The latest version of [...]
Biodiesel McDonalds
McDonald’s restaurants in the UAE are contributing their used french fry oil to power McDonald’s trucks. 100% of the fast food giant’s vehicles in the UAE are now running biodiesel derived from their very own waste oil. Dubai-based Neutral Fuels, an alternative and bio-fuels producer began collaborating with McDonald’s in 2010, testing biodiesel made from [...]
Airplane Biofuels
Air France-KLM (AF) Group, Europe’s biggest airline, operated the world’s first commercial biofuel flight. It used a blend of recycled cooking oil to drive a Boeing Co. (BA) 737-800. Air France-KLM has announced that it will start flying planes in September using a blend of kerosene and used cooking oil. More than 200 flights between [...]
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