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
Posts tagged CO2
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 →
Students reject bottled water on campus
Ordinary voters rarely get the opportunity to vote for change. Lifestyle-altering decisions such as the ban on smoking across the UK, and the compulsory charge for plastic bags in Wales (October 2011) are taken by governments without reference to the electorate. The best we can do is to vote for a party with a radical… Continue reading →
African safari camps switch to solar power
To switch an entire tourist operation over to solar energy in one go is quite an achievement. But Wilderness Safaris are beginning to make a habit of it. This spring Mombo camp in Botswana became the latest in the company’s portfolio to become entirely solar powered. Wilderness invested US $860 000 in replacing diesel-powered generators… Continue reading →
Is the Volvo V40 the safest low-emission car around?
I just received a 6498 word e-mail from Volvo on their new five-door, five-seat hatchback, the V40, which was launched at the Geneva Motorshow on 6th March. That’s the size of quite a long magazine article. The company has an awful lot to say about this new model. At first I thought this was going to be… Continue reading →