Solar Decathlon is a competition hosted by US Department of Energy in which 20 teams of college and university students from around the world compete to design, build, and operate the most attractive, effective, and energy-efficient solar-powered house.
So the winner of Solar Decathlon 2009 goes to Team Germany, who built a house completely covered with solar energy panels.
In second place - University of Illinois
And in third place - Team California
10.18.2009
10.13.2009
Volkswagen Passat EcoFuel - iphone app campaign
Volkswagen Passat Ecofuel claims that it only release 20 g of carbon dioxide each kilometer it travel. It sounds good but how good is this? Let me give you some idea: the average new car carbon dioxide emission is 176 g/km. So this Passat emits 1/9 amount of carbon dioxide compare to other average new car in UK. This sounds quite environmental friendly.
Although this is green and cool enough for me, Volkswagen takes it a step further by marketing this car with an innovative campaign - an iphone application.
The newly launched application allows comparison between human emission (breath) and Passat Ecofuel's emission. The application can be downloaded from the apple app store. check out the video to see how this thing works.
10.04.2009
Pimp My Ride (GHG Reduction custom)
Is "Pimp My Ride" time.
This time the theme is GreenHouse Gas Emission Reduction.
What we got there is this VTES (Variable Torque Enhancement System) Booster developed by Controlled Power Technologies. I won't get into further technical detail as I ain't no physicist but it can caused a 20% reduction of GHG emission. Check out product detail here!
Sustainable pimping my hommie, big up!
VTES Booster by Controlled Power Technologies (picture from Controlled Power Technologies)
9.30.2009
Handy Online Carbon Accounting Tool
Hey guys it has been a while, hope you miss me.
Firstly, I would like to express my love to one of my fav and one of the best band in the world MUSE. Their new album - The Resistance, is out NOW, and it is fucking amazing!!
Matt on Jools Holland show, performing new song called 'Uprising'
I have been working in EQ2 the environmental consulting company for about 2 months now! It has been amazing and I have learned loads!! This is such an honor to be able to start my career in such an amazing green company and work with all these nice and extremely talented people! May I invite you to visit our company website and feel our passion in making this world a greener world!!
At the moment my main mission is to develop and improve my carbon accounting system. Carbon accounting, more precisely Enterprise Carbon Accounting is a relatively new industry. Due to the pressing threat of climate change, carbon footprint is becoming increasingly important in the global as well as business environmental agenda. You should have notice that companies have putting massive amount of effort in reducing their environmental impact, and also they make sure you notice their effort. The Enterprise Carbon Accounting (ECA) companies fit right into this niche. The main function of ECA is to enable the user (company) to understand their expenditure on energy and the corresponding environmental impact, in order to develop a more environmental friendly and more sustainable operation model. Shit, I am sounding like a lecturer now or promoting my company.
Anyway, I will most probably talk a bit more about ECA in the future. So I think now I should show you some interesting stuff and it is related to ECA. I came across this interesting and extremely inspiring website this morning when I was doing some online research. The website is called Carbon Metrics. It is a website allow to measure your carbon footprint with a various interactive tool. What you need to do is to enter the fuel that you are using and they will calculate your carbon emission. The site also has several other tools that allow you to understand things like aviation carbon footprint (i.e. how much carbon dioxide are you emitting when you take a flight form UK to China) and the benefit of switching to renewable fuel. Anyway, please check it out yourself, it is great!
These are some screenshots of their carbon accounting tool. Ohh, btw, all the carbon emission factor they use it from official, internationally recognized source. So they are really accurate.
Carbon accounting tool
CO2 cost of power
Fuel Switch
Aviation carbon footprint tool
Calculate the benefit of switch from coal to gas
Play around and enjoy!!
Firstly, I would like to express my love to one of my fav and one of the best band in the world MUSE. Their new album - The Resistance, is out NOW, and it is fucking amazing!!
Matt on Jools Holland show, performing new song called 'Uprising'
I have been working in EQ2 the environmental consulting company for about 2 months now! It has been amazing and I have learned loads!! This is such an honor to be able to start my career in such an amazing green company and work with all these nice and extremely talented people! May I invite you to visit our company website and feel our passion in making this world a greener world!!
At the moment my main mission is to develop and improve my carbon accounting system. Carbon accounting, more precisely Enterprise Carbon Accounting is a relatively new industry. Due to the pressing threat of climate change, carbon footprint is becoming increasingly important in the global as well as business environmental agenda. You should have notice that companies have putting massive amount of effort in reducing their environmental impact, and also they make sure you notice their effort. The Enterprise Carbon Accounting (ECA) companies fit right into this niche. The main function of ECA is to enable the user (company) to understand their expenditure on energy and the corresponding environmental impact, in order to develop a more environmental friendly and more sustainable operation model. Shit, I am sounding like a lecturer now or promoting my company.
Anyway, I will most probably talk a bit more about ECA in the future. So I think now I should show you some interesting stuff and it is related to ECA. I came across this interesting and extremely inspiring website this morning when I was doing some online research. The website is called Carbon Metrics. It is a website allow to measure your carbon footprint with a various interactive tool. What you need to do is to enter the fuel that you are using and they will calculate your carbon emission. The site also has several other tools that allow you to understand things like aviation carbon footprint (i.e. how much carbon dioxide are you emitting when you take a flight form UK to China) and the benefit of switching to renewable fuel. Anyway, please check it out yourself, it is great!
These are some screenshots of their carbon accounting tool. Ohh, btw, all the carbon emission factor they use it from official, internationally recognized source. So they are really accurate.
Carbon accounting tool
CO2 cost of power
Fuel Switch
Aviation carbon footprint tool
Calculate the benefit of switch from coal to gas
Play around and enjoy!!
8.05.2009
Nice green stuffs in Brighton
Hello! Two good news first before green news. First good new is that I have graduated (it was last month actually)! yes no more courseworks and no more exams! The second good news is I got a job! It is not a proper job really as it is an internship placement. I am working in a sustainability consultancy called EQ2 as a research internship. It is a great new company with 6 nice and clever people (including me haha). I have been working for 3 days and it is great!
Now for some green news. I went to Brighton last week and found this nice little shop. They are not major in eco-friendly design but do have some really cool green stuff. Check em' out!
Some animals made with plastic bag. I think I shouldn't take photos in the shop but I did it anyway. They are so cute!
The shop is called PURE SOUTH and you should definitely visit this shop if you are in Brighton!
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