Green school buses use kid pedal power
GenevaLunch News De Cafe Racer from The Netherlands has taken the tandem bike to new heights, or at least lengths and widths, making group-powered bicycles that are used mainly for events. Now they’re...
View ArticleLighting up (a room) more complicated with new Swiss bulbs
GenevaLunch News WWF shines a light on the new bulbs, with old ones disappearing next year ZURICH, SWITZERLAND – The WWF conservation group is giving us a helping hand four months before the shock sets...
View ArticlePublic transport gets high green marks compared to cars
GenevaLunch News BERN, SWITZERLAND – Swiss public transport systems do more than simply carry more people for less fuel: they also get relatively high ecology marks for their overall impact on the...
View ArticleMigros and WWF band together to teach kids about Swiss mountains
GenevaLunch News ZURICH, SWITZERLAND – WWF, the environmental organization, and Switzerland’s largest supermarket chain, Migros, are joining forces to help children learn more about and appreciate the...
View ArticleSwiss Post’s famous yellow vehicles get green tint
GenevaLunch News BERN, SWITZERLAND – Swiss Post buildings and vehicles are about to shift firmly into ecology gear, with the group’s announcement that all of its letter delivery scooters will soon be...
View ArticleMigros brings electro-mobility to Geneva
GenevaLunch News GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – A 200m2 Migros m-way store opens at rue de Lausanne 54 in Geneva today, near the Cornavin station, in the same historic registered building that houses the...
View ArticleBiofuels mostly don’t make the mark for “green”
GenevaLunch News ZURICH, SWITZERLAND – The first worldwide ecobalance study of biofuels was carried out in 2007 by the Swiss federal research group Empa, which this week released results of a second...
View ArticleBlue honey in Alsace gives green energy a new challenge
GenevaLunch News GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – I’m watching the healthy bees in my mountain garden with new respect after reading a number of French media reports about the strange episode of blue honeys being...
View ArticleSwiss throwing away too much food, says WWF
GenevaLunch News BERN, SWITZERLAND – Swiss households are throwing away 320 grams of food per person, per day, says the WFF based on a new study done by ETH, the Zurich federal polytechnic university....
View ArticleGeneva Motor Show opens: here’s what to expect
GenevaLunch News GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The Geneva International Motor Show, expected to pull in 700,000 visitors during the next 10 days, opened Thursday morning 7 March. The Swiss, who bought 320,000...
View Article
More Pages to Explore .....