U.S. Embassy Starting Point for Tesla Road Rally

Stockholm – On Wednesday, April 21, 2010, two Tesla cars began a road rally from Stockholm to Göteborg, Sweden, using the U.S. Embassy as their starting point. The two cars will make the 500 km trip on less than 90KW of electricity, approximately equal to 150 SEK or 20 USD, while at the same time having zero emissions. For more information, visit: http://www.teslamotors.com/

Vienna Uses Danube To Cool Homes

US Embassy Vienna is not satisfied with new Mag-Lev chillers or adding Smart cars to the motorpool fleet. They've now leased apartements that are cooled by heat exchange with Danube River water!

Copenhagen Earth Day Video Celebrates Accomplishments

Embassy Stockholm Driving Green and Powering Green

Embassy Stockholm employees take green taxis for their official travels. Taxi Stockholm (Stockholm’s biggest taxi company) will provide Embassy employees with green taxis on request. They have also purchased bicycles for use when going to meetings.

All Embassy staff has been encouraged to find ways to reduce the Embassy’s carbon footprint. In addition to traveling green, the Embassy signed a contract with Fortum to receive electricity from renewable sources only, expanded its recycling program, and replaced incandescent light bulbs with low energy long-life bulbs.

Lusaka Goes to Biodiesel

—Using 500 liters of biodiesel per week made from used cooking oil to power generators and Embassy vehicles, reducing dependency on fossil fuels by as much as 14%.