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In addition to making great music (OK Computer remains one of this blogger's favorite listens), Radiohead tries to make a difference from an ecological standpoint. The band is going to great lengths to reduce the carbon emissions associated with its concert tour. In addition to refusing to fly unless absolutely required and investing in equipment like solar-powered generators, the group carefully considers where they choose to perform. Specifically, if a city doesn't have a solid public transit infrastructure, it likely won't be a tour stop. As lead singer Thom Yorke points out, the largest CO₂ producers associated with Radiohead are its legions of fans and how they transport themselves to and from shows. If they can get them out of cars and onto more efficient transportation systems by choosing show locations that encourage this behavior, then it's a green "win." Radiohead can essentially sell out any venue it wants, so credit them for being picky. Choosing locations because the surrounding infrastructure passively encourages greener fan behavior is a lot more meaningful than just selecting the biggest venues and preaching environmentalism from the stage while thousands of cars clog the surrounding roads and parking lots. As you all know, talk is cheap. Yorke and Radiohead make their green impact through considered, thoughtful planning and by sweating the logistical details so their fans don't have to. Good for them.

[Source: AP via Forecast Earth, Photo: AFP/Getty Images]

There are almost 1,500 buses in the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) fleet. Over the next two years, almost, these buses will burn over 120 million liters (that's about 32 million U.S. gallons) of biodiesel supplied by Suncor Energy Products, Inc. 

Suncor's director of distribution operations and national sales, Don Smith, said in a press release that, "Suncor's unique 'in-line' blending process will deliver a higher quality and cleaner-burning fuel to the TTC."

Suncor is into green energy at more than the biodiesel level. The company sells ethanol-gasoline blends at it's Sunoco gas stations in Ontario (unrelated to Sunoco stations in the U.S) and plans to begin construction later this year on a wind power project in Ripley, if they get regulatory approval.

[Source: Free Market News]