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March 2008

VantagePoint’s Bill Green: Why cash beats treehugging

We ask the head of a venture capitalist firm how to pick a winner… By Dan Ilett It’s all about money this clean-tech

Interview: Rob Ontiveros, CEO BEA Systems (Europe)

We’ve heard a lot of people talk about green IT. We’re seeing a lot of surveys flying around, which suggest to us that no

Electric cars: the grid can take it

Good news, all. It looks like the chicken licken ‘the sky is falling in’ type predictions that have dogged electric cars might not actually

Pacific Ethanol gets $40m, Canadian ethanol gets $4m

The words ‘ethanol’ and ‘millions of dollars of investment’ are natural bedfellows these days, it seems. They’re going together like the proverbial horse and

Smarter fuels cut UK emissions by 10 million tonnes

Just a quickie for you here: Defra has put out the latest results of its studies on the UK’s greenhouse gas emissions by person,

Climos enlists Tetra Tech for plankton plan viability study

Greenbang has always fancied becoming an inventor, dreaming up some must have gadget and retiring to the South Seas to live as a very

Irish eyes smile on €22 billion electricity scheme

Ireland has always come across as a place with its finger on the pulse. How else could you explain it being the most successful

Our readers have $1m+ to spend on sustainability

Well not all of you have that much, but a good number do. It’s been absolutely fascinating looking at the reader survey. We had

JP Morgan shells out for carbon offset biz

As Greenbang’s dear old Gran used to say ‘Where there’s carbon offsets, there’s brass’. Okay, Greenbang’s Gran didn’t exactly spout that aphorism, but it

Shell gets into sugary biofuels with Virent

As a youth, Greenbang and Greenbang’s fellow school mates would spend countless minutes (hey, we had short attention spans) turning our calculators upside down