The first 100% Cradle to Cradle office in the Netherlands is a fact. On Friday the 11th of November 2011 (Dutch Sustainability Day) the opening of the new BSH head office on Park 20|20 in Hoofddorp took place. Fornature took care of a major part of the interior of this completely sustainable building.
A study shows that 95% of all single-destination trips could be made by today’s electric vehicles. While Electric Vehicles only have a radius of 70 to 80 miles, only 1% of all single-destination trips in the U.S. were farther than 70 miles.
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We all know the downsides of nuclear power. While the nuclear waste you have as a left over product is really an issue, we also experienced the really bad things that could happen if something would go wrong in a Nuclear Power Plant.
Currently Electric Car Batteries are not helping the introduction of electric driving very well. The batteries are still very expensive and give the electric car a limited range of around 100 to 150 kilometres. This is usually the case for new technologies, which take time to fully develop and need an up-scaled production to be more competitive on pricing. So you could say that the battery price plus the performance of the battery is a bottleneck for the adoption of the Electric Car.
We all know that Switzerland has some really beautiful chalets standing in their mountain area. A chalet is basically a little house which you can use if you were tired of skiing and needed some sleep. Well, now Switzerland has some chalet-like houses which are not only beautiful to see, but also eco-friendly, and there called PODhouses.
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See the impact of renewable energy systems on poverty reduction.
