Eco-Trek Episode 1: Fuel Cell Aircraft, Electric Unicycle, and Fridge Igloo

Eco-Trek is a new weekly video news magazine developed by CCM News, and dedicated to documenting the coolest green stories from around the world.

Empowered by Mercedes-Benz, Eco-Trek producers will be en route with the Mercedes F-CELL World Drive 2011 and circle the globe in 125 days in three of Mercedes-Benz’s emission free B Class Fuel Cell vehicles.

In partnership with CCM News, AsiaIsGreen will be showing weekly Eco-Trek episodes. The premiere episode features the first leg of the F-CELL World Drive from Stuttgart, Germany to Paris, France, and includes:

• Launch of Mercedes Fuel Cell World Drive
• The first fuel cell aircraft, the Antares
• The first electric unicycle
• German artist Ralf Schmerberg, who created a fridge igloo out of 322 old refrigerators to show the importance of energy conservation

Watch the first episode of Eco-Trek below:

Source: CCM News. Image: Eco-Trek video screenshot

How Asians Can Encourage Facebook to Unfriend Coal by Earth Day

Greenpeace is campaigning to get Facebook to unfriend coal by Earth Day, April 22, and Asians can help to encourage Facebook too.

Greenpeace’s Unfriend Coal campaign wants Facebook to:

• Increase the use of clean energy to make Facebook coal free
• Develop a plan to make Facebook coal free by 2021
• Educate users about how Facebook powers its services and its carbon footprint
• Advocate for clean energy at a local, national and international level

Facebook announced last year that it is building a new energy efficient data centre to serve the hundreds of millions of its users, but the company plans to run it on electricity from burning coal, which is the most carbon intensive fossil fuel and also very pollutive. Greenpeace believes that Facebook can move away from coal and switch to clean energy, and influence the rest of the IT sector to do likewise. Read more

[Event] The Third Clean Energy World Expo

Date:  April 12-14th, 2011

Venue: Nanjing International Expo Center, China

CEW 2011 Introduction

An grand occasion in clean energy field, the Third Clean Energy World Expo will be held at China Nanjing International Expo Center on April 12 to14th, 2011. Boasting 6 International Summits, 400 exhibitors and 20,000 square meters exhibition area, CEW 2011 aims to provide an effective communicative platform for government officials, scholars, developers, product manufacturers, and investors, and to promote fast and healthy development of clean energy in China and the world as a whole. Read more

SMARTricity Asia Congress 2010

Venue: Shanghai, China

Smart grid technology really takes off in Asia in 2010 as a number of governments have launched initiatives to develop the technology and infrastructure needed to upgrade their antiquated electrical grid systems.

However, drivers and roadmaps behind those initiatives are quite diversified. China, India and Russia etc are pursuing a sound, secure and energy-efficient electrical T&D networks to meet the surging electricity demand of tommorrow, while Japan, South Korea and Australia etc are investing in IT and demand side to make electricity networks smarter, greener and customer-centric.

How to align their efforts in line for future cross-boarder cooperation? ?How to differentiate your market entry strategy to fit into each individual market in Asia? How to maximize your ROI while striving to be a trend setter?

SMARTricity Asia Congress is a high-level strategic platform for Asian governments, power generators, operator, utilities and distribution companies to address most critical issues in adopting smart technologies to achieve energy T&D efficiency and reliability in Asia.

Visit the event website for details and registration.

Photovoltaic System & Grid Integration Forum 2010

JFPS Group will hold the “Photovoltaic System & Grid Integration Forum 2010” on November 9-10,2010. This forum will have PV grid integration discussions on “Policy & Market Development” and “Technology R&D and Application”.

Expected 200+ Attendees will come from government officials, power groups, PV system integrators, PV cell and module manufacturers, PV products testing and certification service providers, PV components manufacturers and related PV materials and equipments manufacturers.

The forum will focus on:

• Discussion on grid integration of photovoltaic system and smart grid construction
• Unveiling & implementation of Chinese on-grid photovoltaic feed-in tariff
• Key grid integration technology in BIPV projects
• Analysis of China’s newest subsidy policy on grid integration of solar energy
• Difficulties in developing large scale grid-connected photovoltaic power plants in China

For more info, please visit www.pvgridintegration.com or email Fanny Wang at marketing@jfpsgroup.com.cn.

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