It seems that the rising price of petrol in the United States is causing an increasing amount of commuters to leave their cars behind and pick up their bicycles.
Cycling systems established years ago are now being used more regularly in many major cities in the US such as Washington, Oregon, Chicago and Portland. The current [...]

Earlier this month one of the country’s leading conservation groups made the convincing argument that the maintenance of, and right of access to, the countryside was a vital element of the country’s fight against the growing obesity problem. The group, Natural England, stated in their report that England’s natural environment ‘underpins’ both mental and physical [...]

For those many people that remain unimpressed by the appeal of Golf mere mention of the subject may well trigger the words of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, who famously dismissed the practice as ‘a good walk spoilt.’ A recent study by the American National Institute of Health may have just shown it to be a walk [...]

Toyota have successfully developed a zero-emissions car that runs on hydrogen, and can travel as far as 516 miles on a single tank.
The environmentally-friendly FCHV-adv is the latest model of fuel-cell hydrogen powered cars, and is already considerably better than it’s Toyota predecessors. Toyota have improved fuel efficiency by 25 per cent by renovating the [...]

With disgustingly high prices of gasoline hitting Americans’ wallets hard, sales of SUVs and four wheel drive vehicles are at an all time low. However, electric bikes are making their mark as a fun, clean alternative to conventional transportation.
Optibike is the only electric bike manufactured in volume. This month the company has expanded into a [...]

The UK should embrace a system of personal carbon trading instead of the current practice of cap-and-trade system for business and industry, according to the House of Commons’ Environmental Audit Committee. The Committee admitted that initially such a system may be tricky to put in place, but was resolute that this type of scheme would [...]

This summers much talked about Olympic games in Beijing claims to be “basically” carbon neutral due to energy saving techniques like the use of solar power and afforestation programs, senior officials said this month.
The Technology Minister Wan Gang said the event would produce 1.18 million tones of CO2 mostly due to athletes and spectators who [...]