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The first ever Eco-friendly night club has been built and it really is a great idea! What if all that shaking and “getting low” was producing the power and electricity for the bar? Well that is the case with Surya in London which is acting as the starting point for the green club revolution.

Over the last few months, several big car makers, including Nissan, Subaru, and Mitsubishi, have announced plans to produce all-electric cars before the end of the decade, or soon after. Now Daimler has announced that it to plans to jump on the growing EV bandwagon, with plans to roll-out a Mercedes-Benz electric car in 2010. According to Chief Executive Dieter Zetsche, the company also plans to offer an electric Smart car in the same year.

Air pollution in London is worse than in any other UK city and among the worst in Europe. Attempts to address the problem in recent years have undoubtedly brought about a significant improvement (...). The success of this initiative in London is in contrast to the situation in Amsterdam (...). There, a similar proposal to ban from the city cars produced before 1992 has been dropped after coming up against strong opposition from the Minister of Transport, and a definitive plan of action is yet to be adopted.

This is a real ‘Tea House’ made from recycled paper to obviously send out a green message to the world.

Plugin outlets are available now in london for free. While the charging time is long, this means you could recharge while parked at work, or parked for the work day at a garage.

New entry in what seems now emerging as a sort of global competition, between large and small cities, to seize the primacy of being the first in the world to use LED technology for public lighting.

It's the time for London , as reported ,on sunday 9 march 2008, by the Independent.

The Olympic Delivery Authority has unveiled a design for its energy centre - complete with a combined cooling, heat and power (CCHP) plant fuelled by sustainable biomass (woodchip) and natural gas.

Anti-Heathrow expansion activists were out and about at the weekend keeping up the pressure on the government to think again about plans for a third runway at Heathrow Airport. This time they took to the streets - literally - to get the message across, using a new method called 'clean grafitti'.

Ken Livingstone is stepping up his campaign to charge polluting 4x4s with a £25-a-day congestion charge in London.

As Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone might not be the perfect politician but at least he's streets ahead of central government on climate change and reducing emissions in the capital. His latest ploy is to hold a light bulb amnesty during which Londoners can exchange their old incandescent bulbs for a bright new energy-efficient one.

The Mayor of London is giving away a free DIY Planet Repairs toolkit to all residents of Greater London. The free kit contains a few things to help you make small but important changes around the home.

As part of the 100% Design London exhibition, Greenpeace unveiled what it claims to be the world's first dimmable low-energy light bulbs. Full story in our environment discussion forum.

Update on the 100-year-old Manor Gardens Allotments, due to be demolished to make a path for the month-long 2012 Olympics, and a rant about why it matters.

Livingstone puts the C40 Summit in perspective, noting that today business may be moving faster to address climate change than is government.

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