Conservation
InterPark Announces Green Sweepstakes
In an attempt to encourage the concept of environmental sustainability in Chicago, InterPark has announced that it is launching the 2010 "Green Sweepstakes" contest. The Sweepstakes has exciting prizes to be won – most sought after of which will definitely be a two-year lease on a 2010 Tesla Roadster convertible.
Win-Win for Green Cabbie Paton
A taxi fleet owner in Scotland is due to get his second environmental award for 2010. His mission to make a green impact in the taxi industry is getting noticed and acknowledged.
Italian Gas Stations to Have Hydrogen Fuel Pumps
Euopean clean energy company, Acta, has announced their plans for creating a network of solar-powered hydrogen fueling stations throughout Italy. The new pumps will work by harnessing solar energy to produce hydrogen fuel from water through the process of electrolysis.
Green Tugboats for Greener Seas
The shipping arena gets greener with the introduction of an energy efficient hybrid tugboat. Tugboats are usually diesel powered, and have long been a major source of pollution at many of the world’s ports where they are widely used to tug lines and tankers.
Promotion of Biodiversity and Localized Farming Crucial for Conservation
“In other environmental issues we tell people to stop something, reduce their impact, reduce their damage,” states US Ecologist Gary Nabhan in a recent interview. Nabhan is an ethnobotanist/gardener whose promotion of biodiversity has caught the attention of many over the years. He is known for his work in biodiversity as an ethnobotanist. Since ‘Coming Home to Eat’ was published ...
A Greener IIM Calcutta in the Offing
The Indian Institute of Management in Calcutta will be offering a new course on eco-friendly technology as part of it post graduate program for executives. The course will be included from the 2010-11 session say sources.
Swiss Teacher Inspires Zero Emissions Race
Louis Palmer is a Swiss teacher with a special mission. He has inspired the Zero Emissions Race, after people witnessed him taking the solar car that he built around the world. Palmer’s trip was to highlight the power and potential that solar energy harnessing could bring to our experience.
Hollywood Treads the Greener Path
The Producers Guild of America has launched greenproductionguide.com which features a database of environmentally friendly products and services from vendors across the United States. This new campaign, which is the latest push in Hollywood's efforts to clean up its "green" act, follows the launch of PGAGreen.org which the PGA had made in the previous year. The PGAGreen.org was aimed at ...
Musician Ben Sollee Ditches Van to Tour on a Bicycle
Most musicians, when they talk of going green, mean the fuel they use or the technologies they subscribe to. But singer-songwriter Ben Sollee is taking the concept to a whole new level. The pop musician and his percussionist plan to move around from one venue to the next by bicycle.
Attempt To Make Sri Lankan Capital Eco-Friendly Destination
The government of Sri Lanka hopes to make the capital city of Kandy an eco-friendly destination say reports. The capital is a hill city of historic importance and the country wants to retain the majesty of the ancient prestige that it is steeped in. This announcement came at a historic venue – the Temple of the Tooth (Dalada Maligawa) on ...
