Author archives: GVN Admin

If demand for tires keeps rising and raw material shortages persist, you may be driving soon  on flowers and beans. With more and more cars on the road everywhere from Beijing to Boston, tire manufacturers have been hard-pressed to overcome nagging shortages compounded by factory capacity problems, rising material costs and limited availability of…

Parcel carrier DPD says it is to become the first in its industry to offer free carbon neutral shipping to its clients, who include UK ecommerce retailers. From July 2012 DPD says it will become the first express parcel carrier to provide its customers with free carbon neutral shipping. It…

Microsoft is to set an internal carbon price to help drive greener business decisions across its sprawling global operations, in a pioneering policy yet to be adopted by many companies of its size. The software group, which operates in more than 100 nations, is also looking at buying wind farms…

The truth about owning a gas guzzler these days.

Sports cars, reputed for being energy guzzlers, are now trying to boost their green credentials as they seek to attract environmentally conscious consumers and meet new climate standards. At the Geneva Motor Show, Ferrari conscientiously draped signs on its new models saying that the vehicles’ carbon emissions have been cut…

This car cake has zero emissions!

Gotta love 53-year-old Momir Bojic, from Bosnia and Herzegovina, has recently showed-off his unique Volkswagen Beetle, made almost entirely from wood. Momir built his wooden Beetle six years ago, as a hobby, and says it took him an entire year to complete the job. At first glance, it looks like…

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Twenty-six nations are expected to lodge a formal protest on Wednesday against a European Union law to make airlines pay for carbon emissions — adding to transatlantic tension on an issue that has triggered a tit-for-tat bill in the U.S. Congress. Under EU legislation, from January 1 all flights to…