Three 2013 Honda Fit Electric Vehicles were delivered to different institutions across the state of California last month. Stanford University, Google, and the city of Torrance received the new cars as a test run for Honda’s electric vehicle. A few years back, the Honda Clarity debuted in Southern California, further cementing the state as a [...]
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3 Honda Fit EVs Arrive in California
February 4th, 2012 
Eric Wilson 
Posted in Eric Wilson, News, Transportation 
Tags: California, Electric Vehicles, Google, Honda Clarity 
No Comments »EPA’s New Website of Top Greenhouse Gas Emitters
January 12th, 2012 Eric Wilson As a follow up to a post the other day titled “Top Polluting Power Plants in North America,” the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) unveiled a new website yesterday that is dedicated to identifying the largest emitters of greenhouse gases in the U.S., including carbon dioxide and methane. As stated on the EPA’s site, “This tool [...]
Google Invests Big in the Green Energy Revolution
October 3rd, 2011 Chris DeArmond Last week, Google announced a $75 million “initial investment” in San Francisco-based Clean Power Financethat will help as many as 3,000 homeowners secure financing for solar installations. Google stated the move “makes business sense” and will help accelerate residential solar installations. It also will bring its total investment in the development and deployment of clean [...]
Google and Energy Usage
September 9th, 2011 Justin Manger Opening a window into the huge amounts of electricity it takes to run their data centers in countries all around the world, the search giant recently disclosed some details about its massive energy use. The company has invested in numerous green technologies and maintains that overall people around the world use less energy by carrying [...]
Posted in Business, Conservation, Five Friday Facts, Justin Manger Tags: Electricity Generation, Energy Conservation, Google No Comments »The Hidden Benefits of “Alternative Transportation”
May 22nd, 2011 Eric Wilson Siting in the car is perhaps the least productive time of my day. My wife and I “only” drove a combined 6,000 miles in the past year, but the time behind the wheel served a singular purpose, to get to some other location. In the past year (since we bought our car), I’ve walked to [...]
Posted in Behavior, Eric Wilson, Featured Posts, Op-Ed, Transportation Tags: Bicycles, Bus, Cars, Denver, Food, Google, iPod/iPhone App, Mass Transit 1 Comment »Search 500 Billion Words, Gauge Interest in the Environment
March 21st, 2011 Justin Manger Here’s a fun little experiment: go to http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/ and type in any set of words or phrases separated with commas. Google will then search through the 5.2 million books it has digitally stored on file to give you the frequency of the words’ appearance in the English language. The database covers the years 1500 to 2008. [...]
Carbon Offsets: The Debate Continues
March 17th, 2011 2nd Green Revolution Carbon offsetting is an area of the green economy that has been in the news for sometime now. Economii.com states that “Carbon offsets are used to reduce the amount of carbon that an individual or institution emits into the atmosphere. Carbon offsets work in a financial system where, instead of reducing its own carbon use, [...]
U.S. Remains on Top (For Now) in 2010 Global Cleantech 100
October 21st, 2010 Justin Manger Cleantech Group, which “accelerates the development and market adoption of clean technologies globally”, recently released its 2010 Global Cleantech 100. This list features private companies that may have a lot of impact over the long term, thus making it different from Newsweek’s Green Ratings for 2010 which focuses more on the present. The Global Cleantech 100 [...]
$5 billion for Atlantic Coast Off-Shore Wind Transmission Backbone
October 12th, 2010 Justin Manger There is some very exciting news this morning regarding wind power. The New York Times reports there is funding for a “proposed $5 billion transmission backbone for future offshore wind farms along the Atlantic Seaboard that could ultimately transform the region’s electrical map.” Google, sticking to its pattern of investing in renewable power, has come on [...]
Green Map: Directions to a Sustainable Future
August 26th, 2010 Eric Wilson A few months ago we profiled Washington D.C.’s Green Map. That city’s map is part of a greater movement spearheaded by Green Map, which is based in New York City. According to their website, Green Map “has engaged communities worldwide in mapping green living, nature and cultural resources since 1995.” Green Map can be found [...]
Posted in Eric Wilson, Sustainable Development Tags: Google, Green Gadget, iPod/iPhone App, New York City, Washington DC No Comments »
