Adventurer Andy Pag (34 London) reached Asia last night, after leaving London in a recycled scrap yard bus powered only by chip fat. The veteran overland traveller is attempting to travel around the world using only rubbish to fuel his journey.
On Friday he crossed from the European side of the Istanbul Straits to the Asian [...]

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We’d heard that Nippon Oil and Nippon Yusen were working on a million-dollar solar upgrade for a car freighter called the Auriga Leader back in August, and it looks like things have gone as planned — the cargo ship launched today from Kobe, Japan. The $1.68m project involved the installation of 328 solar panels, which [...]

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Formula One racing is a fierce niche in the world of cars, but Mercedes-Benz wants to make that niche both fierce and emission-free. As part of the LA Auto Show’s automobile Design Challenge, Mercedes has unveiled the Formula Zero Racer, their vision of the race car of 2025.
The Formula Zero concept combines luxury, high speed [...]

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Check out this article from Treehugger – bit of a contradiction in terms however, as no amount of renewable energy will make up for the effect on the island’s ecosystem of Mr Depp living there, or the transportation to get there!!!!!
I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about celebrities. I’m generally more interested in [...]

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The manufacturer of the most popular hybrid car on the market is planning take its green vision even further. Toyota, the makers of the Prius, have decided that the best way to make their top selling hybrid car even greener is to add a set of solar panels to the roof of the vehicle. The [...]

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Ricoh Americas Corporation announced today that its parent company, Ricoh Company, Ltd. of Tokyo, will erect a sign in New York City’s Times Square that will be 100 percent powered by solar and wind power. The electronic billboard, the first ever to be totally powered by natural resources in Times Square, will be located at [...]

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Michael and Dorothy Rea outside their home on Unst. Photograph: Murdo Macleod

Life on the most northerly inhabited island in Britain can be very tough indeed. On Unst the winters are harsh, and the winds brutal and relentless, regularly sweeping across the treeless landscape at more than 100mph.

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Imagine your next summer backyard party: the sun has just gone down, the music is playing, and, as the breeze picks up, the lights come on from a string of solar powered, wind-lit LED lights. This innovative design for enchanting outdoor lighting is from Yoshihiro Shimomura, a circuit designer design lecturer at Chiba University in [...]

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BMW, the world’s leading premium car-maker, may launch an all-electric car as part of its strategy to cut greenhouse gas emissions and combat growing restrictions on urban traffic within big cities.
Norbert Reithofer, chief executive, said the group would decide later this year whether to launch a battery-powered car that would produce zero emissions but colleagues [...]

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Swansea University has been working with steel companies for years. These companies produce those marvelously beautiful sheets of steel that cover buildings all over the world. But, while working on ways to make the steel not degrade in sunlight, a Swansea student figured out how to make the paint actually harness that energy and covert [...]

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