Two years ago today I attended the launch of the Nissan Leaf electric car in London. It was almost a year before the car was delivered in the UK , and even then 2011 did not remotely live up to the predictions government ministers made for it is the year of the electric vehicle (EV)…. Continue reading
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Germany sets the pace in greening the London 2012 Olympics.
Have the first gold medals of the 2012 London Olympic Games already been won, and by the Germans? The games organisers LOCOG stipulated that the cars in the official Olympic fleet should fuel-efficient, and emit an average of no more than 120 grammes of CO2 per kilometer (g/km). BMW, the official supplier, have beaten that… Continue reading →
Finally, car ads that promote mpg as a serious selling point
Are car manufacturers, or more to the point the copywriters who write their adverts, finally getting the message about fuel economy and how important a selling point it should be? With petrol prices running at record highs, and panic at the pumps only a union leader’s ultimatum (or Cabinet minister’s misdirected warning) away, you might… Continue reading →
Is this the world’s greenest building?
There are several examples of office buildings, either under construction or complete, with their own power-generating plants, built in such an energy-efficient way that they will send more power back to the electricuty grid than they consume. The flamboyant (at least in its colourful cladding) Pixel Building in Melbourne, Australia, would appear to be the… Continue reading →
Sir David Attenborough visits Easter Island
In 1999 Sir David Attenborough visited Easter Island, but not for the obvious reasons of observing wildlife. The film he completed there was The Lost Gods of Easter Island, shown in 2000. I was fortunate enough to join him on the most remote inhabited island on earth. I write about that visit, based on my… Continue reading →
David Attenborough – Talking to a Great Broadcaster.
Sir David Attenborough is, by common consent, the world’s master wildlife documentary presenter, the last of the great TV communicators whose career began with the birth of the medium in which he works. His latest (October, 2014) series Life Story is as epic and wide ranging as it could possibly be. It tells the story of how… Continue reading →