You would be forgiven for thinking that EcoHats are the latest natty fashionable headwear made out of hemp or recycled plastic bottles (much like the picture here). But while much has been said about EcoHats in the last few days (see here and here) very few people know exactly what
wind farm
Wind energy industry leaders will this week warn Prime Minister Gordon Brown there is little chance of achieving the government’s goal of wind generating a third of all UK electricity by 2020. A report in The Observer says: “Planning delays, long delivery times, escalating costs, 10-year hold-ups in connection
electric car
The iconic Mini is going electric. Set to make its debut at the Los Angeles Auto show in November. The car will be rolled out to select private and corporate customers in California, New York and New Jersey before the end of the year. Powered by a 150kW rechargeable lithium-ion
Billions of dollars are being invested in the controversial carbon capture and storage technology but scientists have discovered that nature could have its own answer. Research published in Nature Geoscience this week suggests that tropical cyclones help to bury carbon under the sea. Cambridge University’s Robert Hilton and colleagues
E.ON
An Abu Dhabi investment fund has stepped in to secure the future of London Array, the world’s largest planned offshore wind farm. The London Array project was rocked earlier this year when Shell pulled out, expressing concerns over the profitability of the scheme after projected costs rose to more
clean tech
The global banking crisis has had a sphincter-tightening effect on investment but research suggests the clean tech sector is bucking the trend – for now, at least. A quarterly report from clean tech analysts at StrategyEye claims worldwide investment in the sector has more than doubled over the last three months,
feed in tariff
MPs and Lords have thrown their support behind an amendment to introduce a ‘feed in tariff’ to support smaller non-merchant renewable energy generation. These tariffs pay people to generate green electricity and feed it back onto a the national grid, earning them a profit, helping them to pay for the
biodiesel
A company which uses refined cooking oil to produce high quality biodiesel was named the most innovative small technology business O2’s X Awards this year. Proper Oils, founded in April 2007, is the only collector working with local authorities to facilitate free collections of used cooking oil from over
climate
Energy and Climate Change secretary Ed Miliband has committed the UK to cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 80 per cent on 1990 levels. The agreement is part of a global deal on climate change and is set to be in effect by 2050. In a wide-ranging statement Miliband: * Backed the
ford
It will be at least two decades before hydrogen-powered cars hit the mainstream because of the cost and difficulty of fuelling them. That’s according to Ford’s leading engineer on hydrogen cars in this Bloomberg interview. In his rather gloomy assessment of the state of the market for hydrogen-powered
npower
Being green can be difficult for many small businesses, who operate on tight margins and who don’t have the economies of scale of their larger corporate brethren. This being Small Business Week, however, suppliers are lining up to give energy efficiency and other green advice for small and medium-sized
business
Mark Dowling of Giraffe Innovation talks to Greenbang about its eco design consultancy which looks at the environmental impact of businesses.
