Volvo touts ‘eco-friendly’ diesels

You can expect a bit of an eco-car frenzy over the next few weeks as the car manufacturers gear up for the big Paris Motor Show in early October. Expect plenty of greenwash too. But first out of the eco-blocks is Volvo, bigging up new more economical diesel versions of its C30, S40 and V50 models…

ByThe Global ViewSeptember 12, 20080Comments

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Arnie’s $221 million assault on diesel emissions

Wise words from Governator Arnie Schwarzenegger in 1987, when his political career was but a twinkle in a PR man's eye and he was content to dress up in camo and careen around the jungle on the hunt for a murderous alien crab in Predator: "if it bleeds, we can kill it." Today's target is bleeds…

ByThe Global ViewMay 26, 20080Comments

Energy

Neste Oil: now with 10 percent added biofuel

Biofuels are starting to remind Greenbang a bit of Britney Spears at the moment. The biofuels fall from grace has been somewhat marked: first everyone loved it, like Britney, then the wheels came off as supporters changed their minds about biofuels brilliance and started slating them, again much like Britney, and now all those involved…

ByThe Global ViewMay 8, 20080Comments

Energy

Shell, CHOREN take wraps off “world first” biofuels plant

If Shell were a character in a US teen movie (bear with Greenbang here), it would doubtless now be the character at the end of the movie that whips off the braces and the glasses, gets a decent haircut and waltzes off to the prom to be roundly applauded by its peers. For Shell and partner…

ByThe Global ViewApril 22, 20081Comment

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Sneak peak at the 50m long eco-yacht

Do you have more money than sense? Why not spend your money on a yacht? More money than sense but with a pang of environmental conscience? Then you might want to treat yourself to an eco-yacht from Sabdes. Or spend your money on buying up spare rainforest and putting it into trust for eternity, but…

ByThe Global ViewApril 16, 20080Comments

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Volvo touts ‘eco-friendly’ diesels

Arnie’s $221 million assault on diesel emissions

Neste Oil: now with 10 percent added biofuel

Shell, CHOREN take wraps off “world first” biofuels plant

Sneak peak at the 50m long eco-yacht

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