Archive for April, 2007
Wednesday, April 25th, 2007
New Eco-Friendly Car Manufacturer
photos: Michel Zumbrunn
The Venturi Company from Monaco is hitting the renewable energy vehicle market full-force. They have three different models already: The Eclectic (a golf-cart looking super eco-car; below), the Astrolab (in between a sports car, and a an eco-car; above), and the Fetish (all-out sports car).
Only the Fetish is in production at the [...]
No Comments » - Posted in General, Solar, Wind by Mark
Tuesday, April 24th, 2007
Buy Green Power from Your Local Utility
While the costs of setting up a solar or wind power system for an individual home can be prohibitive, there is another option. You can buy green power from the utility you already use. For a nominal fee (we pay four dollars a month) you pay your utility a little extra to buy [...]
No Comments » - Posted in General by Pete Lauf
Sunday, April 8th, 2007
New X-Prize for Super-Efficient Automobiles
The X Prize Foundation has announced several new X Prizes, and one of them is “To inspire a new generation of viable, super-efficient vehicles that help break our addiction to oil and stem the effects of climate change.”
The winner gets a HUGE amount of glory and, of course, $10 million. The gauntlet has been dropped, [...]
