HOW CAN I MAKE A REAL DIFFERENCE? In my day-to-day professional work I write for engineers and architects and government planners and fleet managers. I
CLEAN SYSTEMS FOR HOMES & OTHER BUILDINGS
CLEAN RUNNING Vehicles
I love my bike
BIKES I love my bike. I love the chill morning air as I slip through damp city streets at daybreak. I love flitting through the
BP & Shell have bought electric car charging companies
I’m tempted to laugh. I’m tempted to wonder cynically if they’re just appeasing progressive shareholders, or will they try to buy all the electric car
Elon Musk is the leading visionary of our time
He has the pitching skills of Al Gore, the instincts of Thomas Edison, the vision of Steve Jobs, and the heart of Nicola Tesla…
Green airplanes? Really?
Congratulations to Alaska Airlines and others who have been taking steps to green their operations…
Fully electric Ford F-150 & Chevy Silverado pickup trucks
“The F-150 is America,” says Mitchell Yow, who has done something a lot of people will be very interested in. He has developed a true bolt-on fully electric package for the Ford F-150…
GM is now clean energy player
The Chevy Bolt had a terrific first year, selling 23,242 vehicles in the US and increasing sales in virtually every month of the year. It was the best selling fully electric car…
Hyatt Sacramento Hotel installs chargers
An intelligent billing and data system allows the hotel to choose to provide charging for free, for a nominal fee, or at market rates, depending on whether the user is a guest, an employee,…
Millions saved on sales fleet vehicles
Hanko Keissner at Packsize Packaging has a fleet of 50 electric company vehicles, mostly used by salespeople. He has 53 charging stations in front of his packaging plant in Salt Lake City, and a 200,000-watt solar PV system on the roof…
Clean electricity & GOVERNMENT POLICY
How a government program created global smart grid players
Please see the story below, first published in The Ontario Technologist Magazine. The feature photo is Jessie Ma, PhD., a former hydro engineer and a
The time for half measures is over
The time for half measures is over. This week The Royal Society, the UK’s scientific academy, released a report that illustrated how unrealistic is the
