. Having trouble with nasty drivers or want to make sure that if you do, you have proof of it? Or just want to document your ride to work objectively? Add a camera to your bicycle helmet. That’s what more…
UK’s Largest Solar Housing Project Now in Yorkshire
South Yorkshire Housing Association (SYHA) has signed 120 houses up for an innovative renewable energy program, “Power Roofs,” which should reduce carbon emissions by about 350 tons a year. By 2012, SYHA hopes to eventually have 650 homes signed up…
Deadly E.coli Outbreak Reaches Babies in UK Hospitals
Looks like the UK is getting hit with a pretty bad E.coli outbreak. “A potentially lethal strain of the E.coli bacteria has been discovered on the skin of 13 newborns in a premature baby unit at a London hospital,” Animal…
Activists Who Tried to Shut Down UK Power Plant Going on Trial
114 UK activists were suspected of “conspiring to shut down Ratcliffe-on-Soar Power Station,” the UK’s 3rd-largest source of greenhouse gas emissions, and arrested “in a night-time police raid” at a school in Nottingham in April, 2009. 20 of these activists are…
Greenpeace UK’s Rainbow Warriors [VIDEO]
![Greenpeace UK’s Rainbow Warriors [VIDEO]](http://zacharyshahan.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/018.jpg "Greenpeace UK’s Rainbow Warriors [VIDEO]")
Great video of the Rainbow Warrior. And the request from the Greenpeace UK YouTube page: She’s confronted environmental crime for 21 years. She has been shot at, rammed and impounded while defending our world. But now she’s worn out, struggling…
October Top News: Giant Penguins, Solar Planes that Fly for Years, Europe’s Clean Energy Progress, Obama’s Clean Energy Push, Peak Oil/Peak Coal/Peak Etc.
Wow, it’s harder to pick out the “must-share” news stories than I realized. Well, here are the news stories I wrote about in the past week or so that I thought it would be a crime not to mention here…
“Sustainable Stoke” to Become UK’s Greenest City?
About a week ago, energy giant E.ON signed a £2.3 million ($3.65 million) renewable energy/energy efficiency deal with the city of Stoke in the UK. This deal comes as part of Stoke’s efforts to become the UK’s “first sustainable city”…
Largest Offshore Wind Farm in World Completed in UK
Since I’m on a renewable energy in Europe kick this week, thought I’d share one more piece of good news. The largest offshore wind farm in the world was launched in the UK last week. This $1.2 billion wind farm,…
London Cycle Scheme “Boris Bikes” Visualized
London is one of the latest big cities to implement a modern bike sharing program. The “cycle scheme” (as they call it in England) is popularly called “Boris Bikes” now, named after London Mayor Boris Johnson. To help show the…
Where’s the World’s Most Painful Commute?
I was just writing earlier on the power of cities and the progressive transportation choices cities can take to turn the world around (environmentally, economically, and otherwise). Looking at this from a different (and perhaps more negative) angle, IBM recently released…