How much should you care about where the fish you are served in a restaurant comes from? And how much do you find out about this from the menu, the serving staff and the restaurants website? The answer to the first question is: a lot. And to the second: not much at all. When… Continue reading
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Twitter to be indispensable to businesses in 2011?
Analysts are predicting that 2011 could be the year when businesses begin to derive real benefit from Twitter and other social media. There are some intriguing early successes in the environmental field. The electric car with the biggest public profile is the Nissan Leaf, launched in the US in December, 2010, and in the UK … Continue reading →
Could 2011 be the year the electric car takes off?
Could 2011 be the year the electric car (EV) takes off? UK Transport Secretary Philip Hammond believes it might. His optimistic words came as the government announced the full list of cars, each one with CO2 emissions less than 75 g/km (grams per kilometre) that attract a grant of up to £5000 when you buy… Continue reading →
Drivers in US pick up first mass-market electric cars
Remember the name. Amir Seif became one of the first people to take delivery of a mass-market electric car, the Nissan Leaf. He picked it up the car, the third person in the world to do so, after drivers in San Francisco and San Diego, in Phoenix, Arizona, on Tuesday Dec 14, 2010. With his… Continue reading →
Solar powered collector to clean up Pacific plastic?
An unmanned solar powered collector that would criss-cross the North Pacific siphoning up plastic? And why not? It’s a hefty pollution problem, and one it is particularly difficult to see human solving directly.
The (carbon-neutral) view from the Tower Hill omnibus
New Co2 neutral hydrogen buses start running in London on December 18th 2010, after trials. The author took a trip on a prototype in 2006 and wrote the attached article.
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