Copenhagen to Cape Town, a 12 000 km trip with a new electric prototype, window of late technologies. The machine will bring an exhibition gathering informations concerning renewable energies and transfer of technologies. The exhibition will be held in universities, museums and cultural centres of 25 African and European countries.

Mercedes made an important step in the reduction of Co2 emission from her diesel engines. The new 2.2 litres turbo diesel discharges 138 grams of CO2 and will be the backbone of the Mercedes gamma for the years to come. The past months, most German car constructors panicked.  

 
Interesting ‘green’ websites
To show you that Jaga isn’t standing alone in the challenge for a better future, here are a few websites that are also involved in the maintenance of nature and our climate. There are commercial websites about ecological tourism and eco-products and activist websites concerned about our world.  
 
 

Google is going to invest in research for sustainable energy sources. The company wants to have enough clean energy within a couple of years, to foresee a city with the size of San Francisco of (clean) electricity. - Amsterdam, November 27 2007

Geert van Istendael (Belgium writer & poet, 1999) “Pretentions, yes, an avant-garde that says to be artistic but in fact only wants to sell their products. As expensive as possible. Sustainability is not a factor. Usability? Never heard of it. Price? Money is not an issue. May not be an issue. The effects are disastrous.

"Energy will never be cheap again!" This was stated by Jeroen van der Veer, chairman of Shell, in a Dutch television program. 
Amsterdam, February 22, 2009 
Oil will gradually become more expensive. We expect high prices for energy within a longer period of time, as says van der Veer. According to the chairman, the growth of the world population will make the demand for energy higher, which results in higher energy prices.

The Ecological Footprint measures humanity’s demand on the biosphere in terms of the area of biologically productive land and sea required to provide the resources we use and to absorb our waste.  In 1960 Europe’s footprint was commensurate with the available biocapicity, but since then it has more than doubles. If all the world’s citizens would live as Europeans, we would need more than 2,5 planets. At a national level, all but three countries of the EU-27 currently run ecological deficits. Although biocapicity can increase, it is limited.

Our planet has been gradually heating up since the last Ice Age ended 10,000 years ago. Temperatures have steadily increased at around a quarter of a degree for every 1,000 years. Until recently. During the last 100 years temperatures have increased by twice that amount. As if that wasn't alarming enough, all the warmest days occurred during the last decade. Experts are now predicting that temperatures are set to increase by as much as 6 degrees centigrade during the coming century - a rise that could herald devastating consequences.

Our world is warming rapidly. This is caused by the so-called greenhouse effect. The sun warms our earth and the earth in her turn (which means the crust, oceans, clouds, plants, in short our whole eco-system) reflects parts of this radiation. Now, because of the great amounts of CO2 in the air, the solar radiation can’t be ‘sent’ out of the atmosphere. The CO2 prevents it from reflecting, and this causes global warming.  People are working on solutions to reduce the emission of CO2, while others are engineering solutions to stop the global warming as it is today.