Archive for May, 2008

• Positive changes in light of increased gas prices in the USA

  Imagine for a second that oil prices in the USA today were at the same levels as those in Europe, and have been from the start. And yes. That means gasoline for $8 per gallon. How would the world look …

• Sweden’s largest wind farm gets its first approval

  Sweden has approved Universal Wind Offshore’s plans to construct Scandinavia’s largest offshore wind farm. The wind farm will be built in the Kattegatt strait about 30 kilometres off Sweden’s southwestern coast and cover an area of about 60 square kilometres. …

• Rapeseed Methyl Ester is tasty!

  If you didn’t think Brita’s plastic water bottle advertising campaign was disgusting this one surely is. The Swedish company Flygbussarna (shortly translated to The Flight Busses) wants to get the word out about their recent environmental efforts. According to the …

• “The consequences of failure are unimaginable”

  Mohan Munasinghe, vice-president of the intergovernmental panel on climate change (IPCC), said during a lecture at Cambridge University that climate change will lead to a “fortress world in which the rich lock themselves away in gated communities and the poor …

• Plastic water bottle advertising campaign from Brita

  A currently running advertising campaign from Brita, a German company that specializes in water filtration products, says in its ad slogan that “last year 16 million gallons of oil were consumed to make plastic water bottles.”

• The “Bike Tree” keeps your bike safe

  Here at Green Blog we love bikes. They are green, easy and cheap to maintain and will even help you go down in weight. But of course they also have their downsides. And one of the worst is that they …

• Sweden upgrades its train fleet

  While the discussions about high-speed railway systems are many and the people who want them are even more in Sweden the political decisions that are needed still seems far away. Sweden who once was a leading railway country now seems …

• The greening of the SUV’s of the tech world

  When you are browsing around on the Internet, reading your emails, watching online videos, chatting with friends and co-workers etc you probably don’t think about the many and massive data centers that are needed to run all those things. Just …

• Go Live Give at the Kokua Festival

  We travel to Oahu for our second episode where we attend the 2008 Kokua Festival. In supporting an amazing cause, our host Maria has the opportunity to talk with various green vendors and listens to some great musicians. The Kokua …

• A Picture is Worth… The Global Distribution of Water

  This graphic clearly shows the scarcity of water, especially drinkable freshwater, and what increasing global temperatures can result in. The graphic comes from UNEP, the United Nations Environment Programme.