global warming
The looming health threats posed by climate change should drive doctors around the world to demand that leaders enact strong and immediate against global warming, argue 18 physicians from across the globe. A letter making that argument was signed by the doctors and published simultaneously this week in both The
Greenbang
You might have noticed that Greenbang is sporting an updated look as of this week. The redesign is all part of our new identity as a full-out news site for cleantech and the green industry. Having started out as a one-man blog just two short years ago, Greenbang is moving
low carbon
The world needs a “low-carbon revolution” to decarbonise the power sector and reduce industry emissions if it wants to meet the goal of cutting CO2 emissions in half by 2050, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA). The IEA this week released two reports — “Energy technology transitions for industry: Strategies
smart meters
ScottishPower has become the first energy company in the UK to complete installation of smarter meters across its entire service area. The £50 million project replaced 340,000 “Token” pre-payment meters with new, smarter “Key” meters throughout the company’s network area, including the cities of Glasgow, Edinburgh and Liverpool.
biofuels
Increasing the cultivation of willow and miscanthus grass as biofuel stock wouldn’t come with the wildlife damage often seen with other energy crops, according to UK researchers. Both short-rotation coppice (SRC) willow and miscanthus grass could help the UK reduce carbon emissions and benefit wildlife, according to scientists from
electric cars
It has been a drawn-out process for electric vehicles (EV’s) to be seriously taken up by motoring manufacturers — mainly because of technological constraints – but Nissan seems to be the first major company to get out of the EV starting blocks. With last month’s unveiling of the Nissan LEAF,
To most of us — deniers and delayers excepted — it’s not news anymore that rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide are causing the global climate to warm and the oceans to acidify. But geologists meeting in London this week warn that a hotter planet could mean more earthquakes, avalanches, volcanic
Jurdy sees just how big an impact we’re having on the planet …
The UK government has cut its carbon footprint by 12,000 tonnes and saved some £7 million over the past year by making smarter use of its computers and IT systems, Cabinet Office Minister Angela Smith announced today. The carbon reduction, equal to taking 5,000 cars off the road,
Big news from Switzerland’s Nanosolar: the photovoltaics manufacturer is set to start pumping out solar panels big time at both its German and US factories. Its just-completed and fully automated panel-assembly factory in Luckenwalde near Berlin will be able to produce one solar panel every 10 seconds. That means,
If the UK doesn’t make an appreciable dent in carbon emissions over the next three years, the government might have to consider personal carbon “rationing” as a solution, according to a new report from the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR). The report, “Plan B? The prospects for personal
Congratulations, Australians: your country now spews out more carbon dioxide per capita than any other nation on Earth and is also ranked at “extreme risk” from possible future global emissions regulations. That’s the word from Maplecroft, a UK-based risk analysis organisation that recently released its “Climate Change Risk Report
