The Transition Town Movement is only six years old, but has spread virally around the world with each new Transition group that takes up the cause. The “cause” in this case is a reawakening of local community structures, and local economies, so that each place is more self sufficient and…
For the 6 Hours of Bahrain, Audi switched the team lineup to race with two Audi R18 e-tron quattro hybrid race cars. In prior 2012 endurance races, the team had raced with a split lineup: The Audi R18 ultra is a conventional LMP sports car with a TDI engine, while…
In the 6-Hours of Bahrain, in the FIA World Endurance Championship series, Audi won the 1st and 2nd podium spots with the Audi R18 e-tron quattro. The team had switched to an all-hybrid team for the Bahrain race, and while the regular Audi R18 race car was giving excellent results, the…
The Nemesis, an electric supercar built by UK electricity supplier Ecotricity, broke the UK electric car land speed record on Thursday. The Nemesis, based on a Lotus Exige chasis, driven by Nick Ponting at Elvington Airfield near York, has set the new UK electric car land speed record at 151…
What is the carbon footprint of a websearch on Google? Or of sending an email through a gmail account? We ask this because Google operates data centers around the world. Data centers at Google’s scale consume a large amount of electricity. In most cases this represents a large emissions footprint…
Winter is coming up, making it time to think about improving the insulation on your house. This will reduce heating needs, helping you save money on energy bills, while helping the environment. Adding insulation to your house may seem daunting, but there are a few simple things which will help…
Yesterday, Cal/OSHA Chief Ellen Widess held a public meeting in Richmond CA to report on that agencies investigation into the August 6th fire at Chevron’s oil refinery in Richmond. That fire spewed a toxic cloud over the local area, and caused a spike in gasoline prices on the West Coast.…
Brandon Nozaki Miller, riding a modified Zero Motorcycles made Zero S ZF6 electric motorcycle, sets a new land speed record for lightweight electric motorcycles. There is a little friendly shootout underway in the electric motorcycle land speed record field. In August a land speed record was set in the under…
Toyota Hybrid Racing has racked up the teams first win in the FIA World Endurance Championship race, the 6 Hours of Sao Paulo, this weekend. The win was with the TS030 Hybrid race car, a car that has been in only 3 races so far, and which already won a…
A year and a half ago one of the largest known earthquakes ever struck off the North Japanese coast, triggering a tsunami devastating the Japanese coast, as well as a massive nuclear power disaster. Since then the Japanese people have spoken up clearly, with protests of tens of thousands of…
The current wave of using the Solyndra mess to tarnish other Green policies comes from a ridiculous piece of reporting published by Reuters. That reporting used incorrect accounting practices to misleadingly come up with a cost per Chevy Volt of $89,000 meaning that each Volt sold is costing GM an…
The long-hinted Tesla SuperCharger for the Model S and Model X, will be unveiled on Sept 24 according to an Elon Musk tweet promising it will be like “alien spaceships landed at highway rest stops.” Back in June, at the Tesla Motors shareholders meeting, Elon Musk gave the expected business…
The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) is naming names with a list of 39 U.S. Senators and 193 Congressmen whose votes for dirty air and water make them “Dirty Air Villians.” The named members of Congress not only have voted against clean air laws, but have taken large campaign contributions…
Tesla Motors is doing things differently from other automakers, and the company’s sales and service model don’t always agree with local laws. Tesla Motors is a disruptor, a company that is disrupting the “normal” pattern of automobile manufacturers and car dealerships. Tesla does pretty much everything differently from all the…
The Japan Electric Racing Vehicle Association recently held an electric car race at Japan’s Sportsland Sugo race track. Going by their website they’ve held several races this year. For the first time, on the Sept 4 race, Nissan’s LEAF NISMO RC team came to the race for it’s first official electric…
