The mayor of Montreal plans an electric vehicle sharing program, which will put the city right up there among the leaders in electric transportation.
Montreal is not unfamiliar with the concept of car sharing, which provides people with a very...
The Kandi Technologies Group, in China, runs an electric car sharing service, and it refers to these giant edifices as Kandi Machines!
A couple of years ago, when I covered the 2013 New York Auto Show, I referred to it...
Method and Envision Plastics proposes recycling of ocean plastic debris into new, eco-friendly recycled plastic materials that can make up our future disposable bottles.
We have covered the topic of reusing plastic bottles and recycled plastic quite extensively over the past few...
Refrigeration has gone through various stages, each of them more efficient and more effective than the last, but the demand for refrigeration is set for a big expansion, something on the order of $8 billion more by 2018, says...
Menu favorites such as haddock and lemon sole may soon disappear from our plates thanks to warmer oceans.
A new study published in Nature Climate Change has found that some fish species will be unable to move away from the...
Five years after the catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, related to an explosion and series of unfortunate events on the Deepwater Horizon offshore drilling rig, the US Department of Interior (DOI) has proposed stronger regulations regarding...
Usually, you’d expect a site like The Green Optimistic to give you a list of reasons why you should definitely buy an electric vehicle, so here’s something a little bit different.
True, while I do feel that the electric vehicle...
It is only natural for a bicycle lovers to get excited when the news features new and improved bike lanes. How about a bike lane covered in solar panels, smack in the middle of a six-lane motorway?
South Korea is...
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory researchers engineered solar panels inspired by the Japanese paper folding art, Origami. They are light, foldable and easily deployable.
As far as I remember, a paper girl made out of a chocolate wrapper was my first origami...
Carbon capture techniques in combination with energy from biomass, shows a strong potential in creating a carbon negative power system by year 2050.
Researchers from University of California at Berkeley are currently exploring the possibility to combine energy production from...
