Thursday, August 14th, 2008

Biofuel green credentials: DEBUNKED!

Read the full story at: http://www.itwire.com/content/view/20037/1170/

A new report from the UK Renewable Fuels Agency admits that only 19 percent of biofuels meet environmental standards. Driving green is an ever increasingly important issue, what with the price of oil and the impact on the environment of doing otherwise. Biofuel, we are consistently told, is the sustainable and environmentally friendly answer. The Renewable Fuels Agency itself would seem to contradict this assumption
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Friday, July 4th, 2008

Microsoft goes into the petrol business

Read the full story at: http://www.itwire.com/content/view/19236/53/

As headlines go it is an unusual one, but true nonetheless. Microsoft is giving its small business customers who supply their contact data the chance to win 5,000 gallons of gas. Conditions do, of course, apply...
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Sunday, June 22nd, 2008

Canada gets solar powered, Internet connected, RFID equipped bicycles

Read the full story at: http://www.itwire.com/content/view/18916/53/

Canada gets cool, gets RFID equipped and web connected solar powered bikes as a public transport reply to the oil crisis. Best of all, no mention of Celine Dion.
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