I have often fondly talked about my experience with biking in the Danish capital Copenhagen, but a the Crowne Plaza has come up with a great idea to take this to a new level. They have installed two bikes in the hotel lobby that are used to generate electricity. This by itself is a brilliant idea, not [...]
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I am always excited about new eco adventures, and here is one that I think would be a ton of fun. The Pterosail is a recumbant trike that is equiped with a special stable sail. For me, this is the perfect combination, because I love riding a bike and sailing. When I was 12, my grandmother [...] Considering all of the horrors of the gulf oil spill, I don’t think that there is an American left that doesn’t wish for a better alternative than oil. Then again, with some of the responses floating around lately, maybe I am wrong. Natural gas, which many tout as a greener alternative than oil, has become more [...] It is hard to believe that the oil spill is still gushing as much as ever and that we still have no idea how to fix it . To top it off, our politicians are too busy arguing over money and apologizing to BP to do anything productive about the situation. We haven’t even effectively paused off-shore [...] With all of the greenwashed adds for oil companies like BP, it is nice for a change to look at and add that really speaks the truth. This ad by Humble Oil (now part of Exxon) from 1962 is possibly the most honest straight forward add I have ever seen. Maybe BP needs to take [...] When we talk about forms of transportation, we are often interested in fuel economy because that is what we are used to, but what really matters is the amount of energy it takes to move a certain amount of weight a certain distance. We have tried to represent this in the WAVE scale in our [...] |
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