Archive for the ‘Green News’ Category

Fornature participates in the realization of the first 100% sustainable office in the Netherlands

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.

EV’s can do 95% of U.S. trips

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.

Cleaner and safer Nuclear Power Plants with Thorium

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.

Electric Car Battery Prices to Drop 70% by 2015

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.

Ecohouses in Switzerland: PODhouses

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.

Powered by WordPress | Designed by: All Premium Themes | Thanks to wordpress themes free, Best Free WordPress Themes and Free WordPress Themes