Swapping Tail Pipes For Pedals
By Lynne Peeples Like a growing number of Americans, Jonathan Patz rides his bike to work. He even drags a wheeled blue bin behind his bike for trips to the grocery store. Sure, this environmental scient...
World’s Largest Shippers Commit to Sustainability Initiatives
By Will Nichols Steps to pioneer energy-efficient vessels, make greater of use renewable energy, and design ships that can be reused or recycled are all today included in a new roadmap designed to achiev...
The Best Features of the New Scope 3 Emissions Standard
By Ryan Schuchard Earlier this month, the Greenhouse Gas Protocol launched its Value Chain (Scope 3) Standard, establishing a common way for companies to define and measure their total greenhouse gas imp...
Who Killed the Electric Car? Nobody
By Lynne Peeples No villains appear in Chris Paine''s new film, "Revenge of the Electric Car" -- a stark contrast to its 2006 predecessor. "Who Killed the Electric Car?" came complete with a search for the disc...
World Leader In Green Vehicles?
BY YURI KAGEYAMA TOKYO -- Nissan Motor Co. is aiming to be the world''s No. 1 in green cars, targeting cumulative sales of 1.5 million zero-emission vehicles by 2017 with alliance partner Renault SA of ...
3 Hurdles Facing the Electric Vehicle Industry
By Adam Happel Although we''ve made advancements in electric vehicle (EV) technology and adoption in the past few years, uncertainty remains about the future of EVs. This reality was highlighted ...
BAE Systems’ Bid to Design a Greener, Next-Gen ‘Tank’
By Leslie Guevarra The U.S. military''s efforts to shrink its carbon bootprint have been well documented on GreenBiz. We''ve told you how the Defense Department is quietly leading the gov...
‘Back to the Future’ DeLorean To Go Electric In 2013
By Michael dEstries We’ve been covering electric conversions of the classic DMC-12 DeLorean (made famous by a certain movie with Michael J. Fox) over the years, so you can imagine our giddiness at ...
The Electric Leaf’s True Believers Won’t Leave Well Enough Alone
By BRADLEY BERMAN WITHIN weeks of when Nissan first began delivering the Leaf to buyers last December, do-it-yourselfers were looking for ways to make the new electric car — an engineering marvel from on...
General Motors Bike Ad Pulled After Complaints
Is riding a bike really that lame? General Motors would like you to think so, or at least they did until pulling an advertisement targeted at college students. The ad, seen here on Urban Velo, depicts a ...