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'Green' is in! Literally...Globally... and in abundabce! Everyone is going green, whatever way possible, no matter to what extent, but they make sure they SHOW it!
Being in an eco-friendly transportation industry myself, and because of personal interest I keep searching for new information/updates in eco-friendly or so called green field wherever possible... but mostly internet. What I come across most of the time is webpages fullll of green colour, complete with graphics of leaves and all. I bet people have planted more trees on webpages and other promotional material than in their garden!
Time has come, people going green start availing services of qualified designers instead of those knowing some graphic softwares and executing their client's instructions (mistaken as brief).
Save trees, decorate your websites?
(P.S. there is (hopefully) no website overgreen.org as of now)

What a rubbish??

Though I am glad that BMC commissioner took some prompt action, it still makes one think about our deeds in damaging the environment. Who is damaging whom at the end?

Read this.

Congratulations to Team Agni on their historic victory in the world's first electric motoGP

As mentioned in my earlier post, out of 17 teams from all over the world two Indian teams participated in world’ first electric superbike race at Isle of Man TT. The race was won by Team Agni yesterday!
Our hearty congratulations to the team and we feel proud to see the Indian flag behind the winning rider Rob Barber in the media.

Winning team members are;
Rob Barber (rider)
Arvind Rabadia (Director, Organizer, India)
Hasmuk Rabadia (organizer UK)
Cedric Lynch (motor inventor, team mechanic)
Some work was done in factory in Gujarat, India.

About Agni motors: Joint Indian-English company Agni Motors’s claim of making quality, high efficiency and high performance electric motors gained massive credence today when it clearly bested the world’s fastest electric motorcycles to win the first clean emissions (AKA electric) motorcycle Grand Prix at an average speed of 87.434 mph (140.71kmph). It’s place in history is assured by the landmark win, but it was the team’s dominance that was most surprising.

For more details visit,
http://www.gizmag.com/ttxgp-electric-agni-first-clean-emissions-grand-prix/11949/
http://www.ttxgp.com/index_nav.php?page=team_agni
http://blog.ttxgp.com/
http://www.ttxgp.com/index_nav.php?page=livecams

Green is getting faster, really!!! :)

TTXGP, the world's first zero carbon clean emission Superbike race will take place on 12th June 2009, on the world famous Isle of Man TT circuit creating huge international press interest. More than a typical motorbike race, TTXGP is a showcase for the next generation of motorsports. All the entrants have built unique prototype machines. The excitement that has been building around alternative forms of transport and clean energy consumption has been harnessed and pushed to the edge to produce a major, international sporting event. TTXGP provides an opportunity to see these exciting machines close up and as well as stretched to their limits on a course that is one of the most challenging road races in the world.
The interesting thing is that out of the 17 teams, two are Indian! Team Agni and Team Tork.
For more information and pictures of bikes please visit following links
http://www.ttxgp.com/
http://www.gov.im/tourism/events/ttxgp.xml
http://blog.ttxgp.com/

(the bike in pic above is by Mission Motors)

On screen, Black is Green (?)

Came to know about the website http://www.blackle.com/ recently.
This website powered by Google custom search, basically does everything that google does, i.e. searching.... a very frequent task in internet usage. The concept behind Blackle is that computer monitors can be made to consume less energy by displaying darker colors. Blackle is based on a study which tested a variety of CRT and LCD monitors.
I was quite convinced by this and found it a cool idea to change colour scheme of my blog! But a little bit research on wikipedia and treehugger.com showed that this is true only for CRT, Plasma and OLED monitors and not much for LCD screens which are more common! So I don't know if my dark grey blog is saving any energy or not, but I am sure atleast it is not wasting any on any of the monitors. Readability on such colour scheme may be issue and I will change the colour-scheme if I get any such feedback from you. Going green is very essential, but not at the cost of any basic functionality. And whatever the research says about their effectiveness, we can give such efforts a try! Can't we?
(By the way, this change of colour scheme was also to signify writing my 100th post :)