On yer Bike: World Car Free Day

Welcome to World Car Free Day - September 22nd - which I hope you will be celebrating in the only way possible.....   leaving your car at home!  

Stockholm City is not officially joining those cities supporting the event but not all Stockholmers are so complacent...  The jazzy image above is borrowed from Klimax -  who are organising a car-free zone round Sergels Torg in the middle of Stockholm tomorrow (at 5pm) as part of their campaign for a fossil fuel free world.  

If you've not yet checked out the World Car Free Day site then jump here to sample a few interesting statistics on just why we need to be car free....

Tags:
car free day, green,

Green cars

I recent received the latest newsletter from Grönabilister, a swedish consumer group focussed on green motoring.  As usual it's full of interesting news on making motoring more environmentally friendly.

In a quieter moment I'll post more of the interesting facts and figures it includes.  First off though:

Sales of 'miljöbilar' -  cars meeting set environmental standards for emissions and fuel consumption - exceeded one third of new sales for the first time during the first quarter - and in March they were 37% of sales....  

Progress!

(according to BilSweden)