cleantech
Cleantech news as it happens — check back for regular updates: * A study sponsored by the Swedish firm Skanska finds that energy use in buildings could be cut by 60 per cent by 2050; * Transport links at one of the UK’s fastest growing towns have been boosted thanks to a
cleantech
Don’t worry if you’ve missed a few news stories over the past 24 hours: Greenbang’s here with your daily review of cleantech headlines and developments you might have missed: * Entries to the Buckminster Fuller Institute’s 2009 Challenge are now viewable online at its Idea Index; * The
polymer solar cells
Denmark’s Risø National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy says it’s achieved a global first by connecting a polymer solar cell plant to the grid. An inexpensive alternative to silicon-based solar cells, polymer solar cells have been developed to the point that they’ve been put to work at a
zero emissions vehicles
A team of students from Kingston University plan to enter their new green motorbike in the world’s first zero-emissions Grand Prix on the Isle of Man this June. Designed by six final-year engineering students, the bike is powered by batteries that can be charged from a standard household socket
global warming
The Met Office puts the focus on how climate change will affect the future of housing design at its exhibit at Grand Designs Live, which opens Saturday in London. In coming decades, new houses will not only need smaller carbon footprints than today’s, but will also need to stand
offshore wind farm
A multi-million-pound global competition launches today to find the best new foundation designs to support the next generation of offshore wind farms. The contest, being run by the Carbon Trust, was kicked off by Ed Miliband MP, Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change. The competition is aimed at
malaria
Climate change and growing resistance to traditional drugs pose increased challenges to the effort to wipe out malaria, but researchers and civil society organisations around the world aren’t giving up the fight. Saturday — 25 April — marks World Malaria Day 2009. Championed by the Roll Back Malaria (RBM) Partnership, the
global warming
A new international Gallup poll makes a fascinating discovery: the greater a country’s gross domestic product is per unit of energy consumed, the more likely it is that its citizens believe humans are responsible for climate change. For example, 75 per cent or more of those polled in Columbia,
Jurdy discovers that green habits can be addictive …
cleantech
Cleantech news as it happens — check back for regular updates: * Stephen Carter, Minister for Communications, Technology and Broadcasting, is visiting Edinburgh today to examine the digital challenges facing Scotland and consider how the Government’s plan to close the digital divide and accelerate growth in the creative industries can strengthen
cleantech
Because you can’t follow all the latest cleantech news around the clock, here is Greenbang’s daily summary of headlines and developments you might have missed: * Switzerland-based Oerlikon Solar is cutting back staff and hours in the face of business slowed by the global recession; * WSP Group and Telehouse
zero net energy
The WWF is cheering today’s vote by the European Parliament, which proposes that all new houses, offices and shops built in the EU produce the same amount of energy as they consume by 2019. The deadline for all new public buildings is 2016. “We commend the vision of the
