So excuse the dodgy photos, but a massive thank you to those people who came to the Sustainable Technology Group last night. It was a cozy turnout of high quality folk from all areas of clean tech, green media, sustainable business and even a few finance folk. Many beers were
EPA
Parcel delivery company UPS is to start using hydraulic hybrid vehicles that store energy by compressing hydraulic fuel under pressure in a large chamber. The technology, developed by the Environmental Protection Agency, has been in testing for two years and UPS has now ordered seven of the Navistar hydraulic hybrid
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural affairs (Defra) will be the first government department to have the capacity to be carbon neutral. Lion House in Alnwick, Northumberland has been named the most environmentally friendly office building certified by the Building Research Establishment Assessment Method (BREEAM) after receiving a score
Frame Work Directive on Energy Using Products
Designers and manufacturers will have a new tool to benchmark the eco-performance of their products and comply with upcoming EU directives. The European Commission’s Framework Directive on Energy Using Products (EUP) is due to appear in early 2009 and will set minimum eco-design standards for a range of parameters
Ethical singletons of the world rejoice, there is now an online dating destination where you can find your vegan activist life partner. Ethicalsingles.com has been designed for people who want to help to make a better world find each other. While Greenbang’s ‘dance card’ is currently full she
clean tech
Intel Capital, the VC and investment arm of the chip giant, has made a couple of big clean tech investments in China this week. First is a $20m investment in Trony Solar Holdings, a Chinese thin-film solar energy provider. Trony plans to use the investment to enhance its production capacity
Obama
Hi folks, just a week to go before the US decides on McCain or Obama and here’s Jurdy’s take on the Presidential election race. Enjoy…
greenwash
The majority of ‘green’ claims made in advertising are justified, according to research by the UK’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA). The ASA’s survey found 94 per cent of ads with environmental claims were compliant with the advertising codes. The research was prompted by a significant rise in ‘greenwash’
aviation
Environmental groups have hailed the government’s u-turn in agreeing to close a loophole that would have excluded aviation and shipping emissions from the UK’s target of cutting CO2 emissions by 80 per cent by 2050. New climate and energy minister Ed Miliband had claimed it would have been
solar
With mobile networks expanding into sunnier emerging markets, solar power looks set to play an important role in mobile service provision and ABI research is projecting that 335,000 mobile base stations will include solar power by 2013. The shift towards reducing base station power consumption along with improvements in
Prime Minister Gordon Brown is endorsing a “flagrant perversion of the truth” around wind energy, according to journalist Christopher Booker in Sunday’s Telegraph. In a video for the British Wind Energy Association Brown stated: “We are now getting three gigawatts of our energy capacity from wind power, enough to
hydrogen
The University of Manchester has joined the race to make cheap and sustainable hydrogen energy. The Manchester-led ‘H-Delivery’ collaboration between 13 UK universities has been awarded an initial grant of £5m over four years from the UK Research Council’s Supergen programme. The group will undertake research into: * Advanced methods
