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,

Innovation, Freedom, Telecom

The Greens and Piratpartiet are hosting a seminar at the EU under the title "Telecoms Package – Preparing for a 3rd reading". This is coming EU legislation which has consequences for both net neutrality and privacy on the Internet.

More details on the seminar here...

7th September, 14:00 to 18:00 CET (an hour ahead of the UK).

The seminar will be streamed live on the Internet so there's no excuse not to get informed. This important legislation will have consequences for all of us.

Be informed and MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD....

Links:
Voice on the Net
La Quadrature du Net

Green Electric. Make the right choice

Somewhere deep down in my mailbox I found a newsletter from Greenpeace with a link to a nifty comparison table on how green is your electricity supplier.... alway assuming that you're living in Sweden.

And if you're not in Sweden? Check it out anyway to get an idea of how your electric supply could be. (The figure on the left i the percentage of electricity suced from renewables fom that supplier).

Enlightening are the figures for Eon. In Sweden they report around 73% of electricity is from renewables... but for Eon international the figure shrinks to just 9%.

The sad part is that it's that last figure that represents the norm in much of the rest of the world. Go check it out and make the change!