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CO2 E - Race coming to Denmark next fall

Automobile races that try to put on a green mantle are seriously nothing new. There's Formula 1, Formula Zero, and ALMS to name just a few. Coming soon (well, in a year) to a country near you (if you live in Denmark) is a new eco-aware speed event called the CO2 E - Race. At least, that's what we think this this is about. The current website is woefully short on things like details. What the site does say is that the idea behind the CO2 E - Race is that all of the vehicles involved must be carbon neutral. The reason for the race (and a car ... Read more →

Volvo dealer in Verona, Italy is company's first to go carbon neutral Sebastian Blanco

Dealers for car companies have tried various carbon neutral offerings. A Land Rover shop in Oregon, for example, gave away carbon offsets for the first 50,000 miles of each new vehicle sold last ...

clickair offsets CO2 emissions in forest close to base airport Xavier Navarro

Another airline has decided to give passengers the option to offset your carbon emissions when purchasing plane tickets. The latest carbon offset entrant is clickair, a low-cost company based in ...

uShip partners with TerraPass for environmentally conscious shipping Sebastian Blanco

Earlier this year, TerraPass sold its 100,000th sticker. The momentum to offset a vehicle's carbon emissions continues, and you can now participate in the program even if you're not in your car uShip ...

DHL Gogreen Express allows Asia Pacific customers carbon-neutral shipping option Chris Shunk

Delivery services like DHL are very efficient operations that get your package from point A to point B at the lowest possible cost, but the company's mega-fleet spews CO2 by the truckload. In the ...

Should solo Hummer drivers be allowed the HOV lane if they're carbon neutral? 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

California bill SB 1374, if passed and signed into a law, would allow any car to join the HOV sticker program as long as that vehicle is carbon neutral. This would mean someone driving alone in a Hummer could legally be allowed into the HOV lane, if the Hummer's emissions were offset. Senator Jim ...

Making FA Cup 2007/08 soccer season carbon neutral 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Here are some ideas on how soccer fans can save the world (or at least make next season's FA Cup carbon neutral): Ten fans travel to FA Cup matches by bus instead of the car. Seven fans each offer someone else a lift or car share to the ground. 11 fans don't overfill the kettle to make ...

Zero Rally Africa gears up for 2009 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Not a heck of a lot of information is available yet on the Zero Rally Africa, but since there's about 14 months to go before the thing kicks off, this isn't really a problem. What we do know about the rally is that it's a 4,000 km, ten-day jaunt up from Cape Town through South Africa, Namibia and ...

Volvo Trucks' plant in Ghent, Belgium is CO2-free 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Volvo first went about tackling emissions by showing off their "carbon-free" trucks. Now, they say that their goal is to make all of their plants "carbon-free" too. For whatever reason, when they introduced the trucks and now with the factories, they call them carbon-free in most promotional ...


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