Get a little from the earth
Published January 11, 2012 | 
Have you ever head about eco-friendly iPhone 4S cases? Hope you have. These cases have very beautiful modern look and made with vegetable-tanned Australian leather with the using only organic elements produced by PROUD Concept . There are many models (patterns) and colors you can choose from to pick the combination of pattern and color you like. So it’s perfect choice for all those who prefer environmentally-friendly style life.
Today’s so wide range of very stylish things by any styles and color helps you on the way to get a little from the earth but gives back in countless ways.
Top Ten Tips For Greener Motoring
Published July 19, 2011 | There are many ways drivers can be more energy efficient, saving fuel and saving the planet into the bargain.
Here are our top ten tips for greener motoring;
1. Always drive smoothly drive smoothly. Smooth driving is the single most important factor in fuel efficient driving – and it’s safer. The better the driver is, the more s/he is able to anticipate road conditions and guide the car safely though situations whilst avoiding high revs and sharp braking; the two worst culprits working against energy efficient motoring.
2. Always drive off immediately even if the car is cold. This may go against your Dad’s advice from the old days, but modern cars are designed to work straight off the mark – so waiting for your car to warm up is pointless and wastes fuel.
3. Keep your revs down at all times. Change gear before 2,500rpm if your car is petrol driven, and 2,000rpm if it’s a diesel.
4. Drive more slowly. This needs no explanation – and it’s safer.
5. Step off the gas early. When slowing or driving downhill, stay in gear but take your foot off the accelerator earlier than you’re used to as this cuts the fuel flow to a negligible amount. If you have a hybrid car, let the electric power play its part in motoring uphill by keeping your revs to a minimum.
6. Traffic jams are here to stay – so if you’re in one, turn off the engine. Most modern cars use hardly any extra fuel when they are re-started without pressing the accelerator.
7. Keep your eye on your tyre pressure at all times. Under-inflated tyres can adversely affect fuel consumption to a remarkable degree.
8. Plan your journeys well – and the time you take them. Picking the best route and quietest times to drive has a huge effect on the amount of traffic you’ll encounter and, therefore, fuel consumption. And if you have children, you’ll minimise the “are we nearly there yet?” barrage of questions from the back seats of family cars!
9. Try not to take the car for short journeys. Cars are more fuel –efficient on longer journeys as engines have a chance to warm up and work to their optimum levels.
10. Keep your car as streamlined as possible by avoiding items which cause drag such as roof racks, bike carriers and the like.
The world’s greenest car
Published July 19, 2011 | Deciding exactly which is the world’s greenest car is debatable – but one car which certainly comes close is the T.27 designed by former Formula One Technical Director, Gordon Murray.
In June 2011, the car was introduced to the world at the Royal Automotive Club on London’s Pall Mall. Dubbed “The world’s most efficient electric car” the slightly strange looking goggle-eyed vehicle is just two and a half metres long.
The all electric T.27 can cover 100 miles on one charged battery and has a top speed of 65 miles an hour.
The T.27 will make its more formal debut at the Future Car Challenge in November 2011. The event isn’t a race, but a challenge to demonstrate low-energy impact over the route from Brighton to London – within minimum and maximum times.
The car has been specifically developed to be highly energy efficient throughout its life. Its predecessor sibling, the T.25, also designed by Murray, won two awards at the Future Car Challenge 2010 event – namely “Most Economic and Environment Friendly Small Passenger Vehicle” and for the “Most Economic Small Passenger Vehicle” – and the T.27 looks like it could repeat this success.
The T.25’s 25-kilowatt electric engine takes the car from 0-62 mph in under 15 seconds, whilst CO2 emission levels are a negligible 33g/km for the urban cycle and 43g/km overall.
Rather like Formula One itself, the Future Car Challenge is a competitive arena in which participants test their mettle against competitors at the absolute cutting edge of automotive technology; except, of course, that this is all about the environment.
In many ways, therefore, the kind of technology pitting its wits against the competition is more likely to find its way into the kind of production cars we’ll all be driving just a few years’ hence. For example, it is from such cutting-edge technology that hybrid cars are now becoming commonplace.
In turn, perhaps the hybrid car of today, will be the equivalent of the all battery-powered vehicle a decade or so from now – and all cars will be as green as the T.27 test car is today?
Energy’s Glass Tile Roof
Published October 29, 2010 | Now you can heat your home with SolTech Energy’s beautiful glass roof tiles. Swedish company SolTech offers a gorgeous glass solar-thermal roof tiles which are able to heat your home by using a simple system to store energy from the sun. This is great solutions for clean solar power, awarded “Hottest New Material 2010” for their unique home heating system contained within roofing tiles made out of ordinary transparent glass. The attractive house-warming tiles (somewhat ironically) give roofs a beautiful, icy appearance quite unlike anything else we’ve ever seen before.
All tests show that the system has a natural aversion to snow, what with the shiny tile surface and heat reflected from an absorption fabric below the tile. The tiles are UV resistant and last longer than conventional clay or concrete roof tiles.