To date, Toyota has put one million hybrids on the road, and it’s just the beginning. Three of the biggest obsticals for hybrid technology are cost, availability, and Lithium Ion technology, and Toyota is expecting all those dominos to fall within three years.
Relentless cost reduction efforts lead Toyota to speculate that their margin on hybrids will [...]

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Last week, in Las Vegas Domino’s Pizza started testing pizza deliveries using Zap! Xebras.
These are supplied by the Electric Vehicle Company  so that Domino Pizza can test them.
 
Jim Stansik, Domino’s executive vice president of Franchise Development, said in a statement that, “..today it is not uncommon to have your Domino’s pizza delivered by bicycle, scooter or [...]

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“In one of the most unexpected conversions since Saul of Tarsus hit the road to Damascus, Rupert Murdoch is turning into a green campaigner.”  Reports The Independent.   
He is aiming to make the whole of his worldwide operations carbon neutral and setting out to “educate and engage” his readers and viewers about global warming.
While he [...]

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With all the work being done on reducing carbon emissions it is simply amazing to hear that the energy giant Eon applied to build the first new coal-fired generating units in the UK in 33 years.  
Now Medway Council in Kent is considering the application.
Amazingly each of the units Eon proposes to build would emit more carbon dioxide [...]

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A new generation of wind turbines is being engineered to accelerate the uptake of this technology in providing renewable energy.  The Loopwing in a new design from Japan that does just that:
The design has a number of interesting features which will help overcome some of the issues that are raised today.
Firstly the looped design of [...]

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By the end of this century, Earth could be hotter by 6 degrees centigrade than it is today, says the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Just how bad would that be?
Mark Lynas sifted through thousands of scientific papers for some answers, by degrees.

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I have now discovered how Google is doing its bit to reduce the carbon footprint caused by travelling from New York to London.  To find this out go to maps.google.comclick on “get directions”  type ” New York ” in the first box (the “from” box)  type ” London ” in the second box (the “to” box) [...]

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