While last Friday’s installment of Eco-trek was postponed so we could do our annual Earth Day posting, the Eco-Trek team continued their drive in their Mercedes-Benz F-CELL across Australia. In this installment, the team looks at wave energy and speaks with solo ocean rower and environmentalist Roz Savage. Other interesting stops on their tour can [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Cars’
Eco-trek Reaches Half-Way Point on It’s Drive Around the World
April 25th, 2011 
Justin Manger 
Posted in Clean Technology, Justin Manger 
Tags: Cars, Desalination, Eco-Trek, Renewable Energy, Video, Wave Power 
No Comments »I Am Car Parts
April 19th, 2011 Eric Wilson One of the most important factors in a sustainable system (specifically ecosystems) is resilience. Overly specialized and complex structures tend to struggle when the rules of the game change. Consider a plant adapted for a dry climate. If precipitation patterns change and this plant, let say a cactus, is now in an area of moderate [...]
Posted in Business, Eric Wilson, Japan, Recylcing Tags: Cars, Climate Change, Landfill, Necessary Revolution No Comments »The TrailerTail Looks Weird but Improves MPG for Tractor Trailers
April 5th, 2011 Justin Manger NPR describes it as “the flaps on a Chinese food take out box, tipped on its side.” I’d say that’s a fair description. It simply looks odd, as you can see in the video below. What exactly is it? It’s called The TrailerTail and was developed by ATDynamics in order to cut down on the rear [...]
Five Friday Facts Follow Up
April 1st, 2011 Eric Wilson This week’s Five Friday Facts are a follow up to last week’s set. In 2000, total water use in the U.S. was estimated to be 408 billion gallons per day. Electric power generation uses approximately half, irrigation consumes over one third, and public supply accounts for approximately one tenth. The per capita water use in [...]
Posted in Behavior, Eric Wilson, Five Friday Facts Tags: Cars, Coal, Electricity Generation, Natural Gas, Oil Consumption, Waste, Water No Comments »Clean Energy and Environmental Protection: Tackling China’s “Unsustainable Economic Growth”
March 31st, 2011 Guest Author This post was written by Michael Davidson, who works at the NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council). China leads the world in renewable energy deployment and clean energy investments, according to the Pew/Bloomberg New Energy Finance report “Who’s Winning the Clean Energy Race? 2010 edition” released today. This is part of a larger trend we’re seeing in [...]
Posted in Behavior, Business, China, Clean Technology, Energy Efficiency, Featured Posts, Green Economy, Guest Authors, Policy, Renewable Energy, Sustainability Tags: Alternative Energy, Cars, Clean Energy, Coal, Electricity Generation, Green Technology, Michael Davidson, NRDC, Renewable Energy No Comments »Five Friday Facts
March 25th, 2011 Eric Wilson In 2005, 64% of the 109 million U.S. families lived in single-family homes. From 1950 to 2005, the average size of a new U.S. single-family house increased by 148%; Avg house size in 1950 (983 sq ft), in 2005 (2,434 sq ft); during the same time the average area per person in a new U.S. [...]
GreenCars.org Releases 2011 Car Rankings
February 22nd, 2011 Eric Wilson GreenCars.org, in conjunction with the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy, “an independent, nonprofit research group dedicated to advancing energy efficiency as a means of promoting economic prosperity, energy security, and environmental protection” released their 14th annual environmental ratings last Thursday. The rankings include plug-ins, gasoline hybrids, diesels, natural gas vehicles, and conventional gasoline vehicles. [...]
My Driving Impressions and Review of the Nissan Leaf: Ready for Prime Time?
February 19th, 2011 Chris DeArmond The 2011 Nissan Leaf is the world’s first affordable, mass produced, all electric vehicle (EV). It comes with an 8 year/100k mile warranty for the batteries, gets a purported 100 mile range on a full charge, and costs only $2.75 to fill up during off-peak hours. Best of all, fully electric vehicles are eligible for [...]
Posted in Behavior, Business, Featured Posts, Green Products, Transportation Tags: Battery, Cars, Chris DeArmond, Electric Vehicles, EPA, Nissan Leaf, Prius, Product Review, Rebates, Tax Rebates, Test Drive 3 Comments »Help the Environment: Donate Your Old Car
February 15th, 2011 Guest Author This is a guest post by Giveacar.co.uk, a “social enterprise that raises money for charities by accepting donations of unwanted cars.” Car disposal can be a difficult task. If your car is old or faulty it might not sell easily which can lead to it sitting on your driveway for weeks or even months! In [...]
Mercedes-Benz Fuel Cell Cars Start “Eco-Trek” Around the World (Video)
February 4th, 2011 Justin Manger 2nd Green Revolution has teamed up with CCM News (and, by extension, Mercedes-Benz) to bring you the Eco-Trek Fuel Cell World Tour. Starting January 29th and lasting until June 2nd, three Mercedes-Benz B-Class F-CELL cars will be circling the world. CCM production crews will be driving these Hydrogen F Cell vehicles over the next 125 days targeting the [...]
