You want to be environmentally conscious right? Reduce your carbon footprint, do the right thing and save the polar bears? But in the back of your mind, you’ve always wanted that sports car you could never afford. That present you’d always promised yourself. But sports cars aren’t exactly the environment’s best friend are they? Can … Read more
Sports cars. With the exception of the real die-hard lentil sandal wearing environ-mentalists, most people love the idea of a sports car. But admit that at an Islington dinner party and it’s about as PC as claiming you’re Osama Bin Laden’s tennis partner. So can you really have a green sports car? Arguably the greatest … Read more
Its a question any responsible managing director should currently be asking, and Clear have created a calculator to enable you to measure it. And best of all it’s free. No charges, no catches. Many companies offset carbon footprint measurement, but the quality of results can be extremely variable. As a carbon offsetter, Clear Offset believes … Read more
Hollywood loves the Toyota Prius for the green image it purveys to celebrities who have a carbon footprint several times that of the average citizen. Middle England loves the Toyota Prius because over a dinner party they can tell their neighbours they drive a hybrid car. I even like the Toyota Prius because it has … Read more
Clear are launching a new carbon offset product for skydivers everywhere. The impetus for this has been Steve Baker, a customer who asked if we could figure out, then offer a product for skydivers who want to go carbon neutral. So how is this figured out? Well, Steve kindly asked various drop-zones for their fuel … Read more
Most manufacturersare now obliged to report figures now for CO2 as well as MPG. Its pretty obvious thatthe more fuel you burn for any given distance, the higher the CO2 and the lower the mpg. What most people don’t realise is that there is an exact formula exactly linking the two figures. It’s far more accurate to … Read more
So someone asks you what the lowest CO2 of any car on sale on the UK is. Must be the Toyota Prius right? That’s been on sale since 2000 in saloon form and 2004 as a hatchback, long before anyone gave a monkey’s about CO2… Well the most interesting thing is that the Prius was … Read more
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1539253110232{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”] Not a question most of us have asked directly, but when you hear about Toyota Prius this and Lexus hybrid that, did you ever wonder what the least efficient car is on sale in the UK today? Let me introduce you to the hall of fame, and you won’t be surprised to … Read more
So you want to reduce your carbon footprint right? But you still have to get from A to B and back again. So what’s the cleanest way to go in terms of CO2? The obvious one is to walk or cycle. Both are essentially carbon neutral, though if you were really being pedantic, you could … Read more
