Green from the roots up, Sustainable from the top down
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So I gave back the loaner Insight to Honda yesterday. Honestly, I was sorry to see it go.
Here are my impressions of the Insight divided into my likes and dislikes and most are direct comparisons with my current car, a Toyota Prius. Realise I am no motoring expert and these are extremely subjective opinions!
Likes:
The Insight [...]
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I went to Jerez today to collect the a Honda Insight which Honda offered to me to try out. They are letting me have it for a week.
Jerez is about 100km away. I drove there in our Prius and drove back in the Insight. A couple of differences struck me straightaway –
First off, the [...]
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I talked to Rich Lechner, IBM’s VP of Energy and Environment, the other day about the global problem of getting transportation right. According to Rich, in the US alone, congested roadways cost about $78bn per year so this is very much an economic as well as a sustainability-related issue!
We had a wide-ranging conversation about all [...]
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There were two panel discussions on Sustainable Transport at the European Future Energy Forum. The panels were very high powered and included names like Robin Chase, Sandrine Dixson-Declève, and John Leggate.
The discussions were wide ranging touching on topics like how city architecture has evolved and now we design cities for a model of car ownership. [...]
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I was delighted to see news today that the Canadian province of Ontario is the latest to sign up to roll out Better Place’s car charging infrastructure.
Better Place is a California-based, startup that aims to reduce global dependency on petroleum through the creation of a transportation infrastructure that supports electric vehicles. Typically [...]
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Microsoft operate a private bus service called the Connector service for employees to get to work at its headquarters in Redmond. Microsoft has 39,000 employees working at its Redmond campus so providing this facility for them is not only Green, it also reduces on congestion and the requirement for parking spaces.
Microsoft announced the [...]
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I live in Seville, Spain and this town has a wonderful community bike rental program called Sevici. This is run by the town council and JCDecaux and use of these bicycles is free for the first 30 minutes and in the order of €1 per hour thereafter.
You use an RFID card to [...]
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I love this – a German company comes up with an idea to make ships far more fuel efficient using… sails! Yes, wind-powered ships. Why didn’t anyone think of it before? Oh, hang on…
Seriously, watching the video above, Skysails, the company re-inventing the technology, seems to be onto a really good thing. Fuel [...]
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I received a press release from HP the other day informing me that HP have
qualified all business PC, printing and server products shipped throughout the United States and Canada for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) SmartWay logo labeling program
Perhaps the SmartWay program is well known within the United States but I hadn’t [...]
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