Say what you will about The Terminator, but California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger understands the need for a clean, green economy better than many. Already an outspoken advocate of measures to fight global warming, Schwarzenegger this week took another step toward a more sustainable California economy by announcing a public-private partnership
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It’s Friday, it’s almost the weekend, here’s Jurdy to set you on your way…
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We always welcome and encourage debate on Greenbang – especially when people are prepared to challenge our position and argue their corner. We posted a piece earlier on in the week giving some stick to the EU’s new ‘green’ data centre code and got an excellent response from the British
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The South West Regional Development Agency (RDA) has chosen engineering company J P Kenny to manage the design and construction of the world’s largest wave energy farm, 10 miles off the north coast of Cornwall. The Wave Hub renewable energy project will connect to the National Grid via a
Keep next Thursday free if you can (and if you’re in London). There’s a very good event about to go down and it looks like it’s going to be packed out. Ben Patten, our friend over at Greenbizevents, just sent this in. Ben started up around the
The U.S.-based electronics retailer Best Buy has begun selling renewable energy credits in the form of a $10 plastic card called “Green Your Phone.” While the concept behind the card is to encourage customers who buy mobile phones to offset their phone’s energy consumption with green energy
Can enviros enjoy video games with a clear conscience? Perhaps not so much, as a study by the U.S.-based Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and Ecos Consulting has found that game consoles are responsible for hefty amounts of energy consumption and carbon emissions. The NRDC/Ecos study finds
Who will spark the next revolution in auto fuel-efficiency? It’s a good bet it will be one of 22 innovators announced this week as registered teams for the Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE. The X PRIZE promises $10 million (U.S.) to the team that can win a stage
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The European Union has finally released it’s ‘Code of Conduct’ for data centres after nearly two years of consultations and other stuff bureaucrats in Brussels have to go through. The code isn’t about the conduct of data centres – stopping them drinking and swearing in public, that kind of
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Longer corporate responsibility reports are more likely to win companies an environmental gong but they are still packed with greenwash and vague references to terminology such as ‘sustainability’. These are the findings of a report, Environmental Reporting: Trends in FTSE 100 Sustainability Reports, by corporate consultancy Spada. The analysis of
Speaking at this week’s Global Climate Summit of U.S. governors in California this week, U.S. President-elect Barack Obama pledged to spend $15 billion a year to “catalyze private sector efforts to build a clean energy future.” “Few challenges facing America — and the world — are more urgent than
The ever-controversial U.S. ethanol industry is being battered again, this time not by public opinion so much as by falling crop and oil prices and a shaky economy in general. In Iowa, an epicenter of the ethanol fallout, one expert this week told a gathering of agricultural bankers he
