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Kite power takes flight

As well as Olympic fever, August means two things for residents of Bristol. The balloon fiesta, happening now, and the kite festival, at the ...

Vroom! Leccy cars get loud

Greenbang always secretly wanted to be a boy racer, revving suped up custom versions of really rather rubbish cars with fat exhaust pipes and ginormous spoilers round the car park ...

Dell claims carbon neutral goal

Mega PC box shifter Dell has planted its (no doubt green and recycled) stake in the ground, claiming to be the first tech company to be carbon neutral. And not ...

Judy: Olympic special

The Beijing Olympic flame will be lit in a little over an hour from now. So, in it's honour:

DoE chases zero energy buildings, $140m savings

This morning Greenbang stumbled over a press release bearing the excellent title of Department of Energy to Pursue Zero-Net Energy Commercial Buildings. Last time Greenbang looked, buildings don’t move ever ...

UK wind: only for the rural

Greenbang went to the country once. She wasn’t quite sure what all the fuss was about – sure, there’s scenery that would bring a tear to a glass eye and ...

Survey: Should outsourced CO2 count?

I've been flicking through a pile of press releases this morning. Amid the mass of ones for 'green' loo roll that's now softer ...

Food crisis debate sparks more, err, debate

The Economist's debate on the food crisis is proving rather popular. In fact, we've been told it's the biggest debate the publication has ...

Ikea spends big on clean tech start ups

Here’s an interesting one from the folk over at Cleantech. Apparently, it seems, everyone’s favourite Swedish monolithic furniture flogger and Edmonton riot provoker Ikea is getting out its wallet ...

Peter Hopton, Very PC interview

Anyone who saw Dragons Den the other night will recognise this chap, Peter Hopton, as he was kicked out with not a penny, nor a kind word for his efforts. So, as we're always up to date with current affairs, ...

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