The Solar Shuttle carries 42 passengers and is powered by two engines allowing it to cruise at 4mph across the Serpentine. A similar boat powered by a diesel engine could produce up to 2900lbs of CO2 per annum.
Daily Archives: November 17, 2007
Flybe - eco labels
Flybe have introduced a range of labels which illustrate how much CO2 is produced by the type of aircraft and distance flown (opens as a PDF and it’s quite a large file).
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Virgin Green Fund
Following on from the Virgin post below - they have also committed $400 million to the Virgin Green Fund which will invest in the renewable energy and resource efficiency sectors in Europe and the United States. They have, for example, invested in Gevo who develop bio fuel .
Virgin Bio Fuel
Virgin Atlantic are planning to run a trial in 2008 where a 747 is powered by bio fuel. I understand that Virgin are working with Boeing and GE Aviation.
Eurostar - the green train
I was lucky enough to be invited on Eurostar’s first journey from St Pancras International station to Paris and to a lunch hosted by Friends of the Earth. The new high speed route knocks approximately 15 minutes off of the old journey time.
Eurostar are leading the way in addressing the environmental concerns of passengers. [...]
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A Crude Awakening - The Oil Crash
A Crude Awakening - The Oil Crash produced and directed by Basil Gelpke and Ray McCormack tells the story about how the world’s use of oil is unsustainable and argues that “our industrial society, built on cheap and readily available oil, must be completely re-imagined and overhauled.”
There are some excellent resources on the film’s website [...]
BSI - sustainable events
Events play an important role in tourist destinations, they:
Create an additional reason to visit
Appeal to different audiences
Help to extend the tourist season
Generate secondary spend etc
Well if you are planning to run an event British Standards (BSI) have just launched an sustainable events guide.
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Tim Harvey - human powered travel
Tim Harvey, traveller/explorer, under ‘human power’ has travelled around the world. Starting and finishing in Vancouver Tim Harvey took two and a half years to travel through five continents and across two oceans only using bicycles, rowing boats, canoes and rafts.
