SKAGGS Blog - Green

Late last month, the Reykjavik City Environment and Transport Council agreed to establish a task force to increase the presence of electric cars and charging stations in Iceland’s capital. Their decision to shift toward an electricity-based model was born out of the 2008 Driving Sustainability Conference in Reykjavik, where pioneers in the movement to achieve environmentally sustainable transportation decided that electricity proved more efficient than hydrogen. The recent 2009 Conference saw…

Icelandic President Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson

The Driving Sustainability Conference is produced by FTO, short for Future Energy or Framtidarorka in Icelandic. Iceland is unique in the sense that the country’s usage of energy is already 80% sustainable. Removing fossil fuel vehicles from the roads would make Iceland’s energy usage 98% sustainable and therefore the most sustainable country in the world. The conference was born out of that dream and with 3…

There has been a lot of talk about this and while we try to keep politics out of our blog, occasionally we do drift into political issues. I’m not in favor of the government bailing out the auto industry primarily because I don’t think it is their business to do so. What the government could do in this case is order an entire new fleet of government vehicles that are either hybrid…

About 2 years ago, I added the title of this post to my email signature. I don’t recall having seen this before and it just seemed like a logical thing to do given the amount of emails I see printed out at meetings and being read by people on the subway as they head home from work. I’m also happy to see that this phrase, or variations of it, seem to be…

“The U.S. consumes 21 million barrels of oil a day, far more than No. 2 China (which consumes 6.9 million barrels a day) and No. 3 Japan (at 5.4 million)”, said Neel Kashkari, senior advisor to Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson. [More…]

As Joseph J. Romm points out in his excellent posting, the hybrid card is the “silver bullet” solution to rising gas prices since it not only addresses…

He may not be the president (like he should have been) but Al Gore is the catalyst for bringing attention to global Climate Change. For this, I am deeply appreciative. It was great to see Al Gore win an Oscar An Inconvenient Truth and kudos to The Academy for seeing the power and message in Gore’s movie. For those of you have not seen the movie or read the book, the…