This is a very interesting shipping company (of sorts) that has found a common-sense, yet uncommon, solution to tons (I mean, megatons) of unnecessary carbon emissions. Check out this useful guest post and keep Shiply in mind next time you need something shipped (if you’re in one of the … [continued]
Named the Nichiomaru, which means “king of Japan,” the ship is the first Japanese vessel to make use of both solar panels and an electrically controlled diesel engine. It’s also got […]
The European Union keeps looking for ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions; one of those ways is Initiative 120 (the one where they want all new cars to have less than 120g/km of carbon dioxide emissions). Another place to cut down emissions is the shipping industry – it’s just that the EU doesn’t quite know where to start.
“The notion that airships represent the future of air cargo is being revived by a new generation of entrepreneurs some 75 years after a catastrophic fireball brought the industry to a screeching halt.”
That’s the intro to a piece on The Daily Climate on these promising, Super Cool airships of the 21st century. These low-carbon options for air cargo transport are currently being targeted at China, Africa, northern Canada, and other developing markets where there currently isn’t much (or any) transportation infrastructure
Hybrid tug boats are sort of hard to picture for me. I guess they don’t need to look much different, but, for some reason, it is hard for me to put the two together. Nonetheless, they do exist… or, at least, one hybrid electric tugboat exists, the Carolyn Dorothy tugboat. And … [continued]
[social_buttons] Choosing the best shipping service can be difficult. I know that every time I ever had to do so, I felt a little clueless as to what company I should choose. I don’t live in the US anymore, but I know how I would go about this now if … [continued]
China has certainly made some startlingly bold and draconian moves into a sustainable new future. You might say that their One Child policy did more to slow future climate change than anything that any other nation has tried. That’s one example of their outside-the-box thinking about the future.
With the entire planet in a crazy attempt to make everything from transport to washing green, it comes as no real surprise to see another industry take up the challenge. And, as with a lot of things technological, Japan is leading the way. Japan’s biggest shipping company – Nippon … [continued]
