Clean Tech Start-up Index
Greenbang’s Clean Tech Start-up Index 2008 contained many businesses, one of these was EVO Electric Ltd. * Founders: Dr Michael Lampérth, CTO; * Peter Beynon, CEO * Founding date: November 2006 * Number of employees: 13 * Turnover: First sales envisaged for late 2008 * Website: www.evo-electric.com * Investment: £1.5 million Evo Electric
There are some huge estimations of how big the clean tech and green business sector is and will be. But will this industry be considered green and clean for much longer? As oil becomes more expensive and depletes in supply, many of these products will become part of the norm
From Advertising Age… “The shift seemed to reflect changing priorities on the part of their customers. “If [consumers] can’t afford the product, or it’s not the quality you want, [they’re] not going to be focusing on its environmental friendliness,” said Christine Moorman, the professor who led the
An interesting article appeared in the FT this weekend on why the UK needs to adopt carbon capture technologies asap. Martin Rees, a lord and president of the Royal Society, and Nick Butler, who chairs the Centre for Energy Studies at the Cambridge Judge Business School, wrote the opinion piece,
Clean Tech Start-up Index
We are into the second week of giving you an insight into the companies that made up this years Clean Tech Start-up Index. Today’s post is all about e-stack Ltd. * Founder/ CEO: Shaun D Fitzgerald * Founding date: January 2008 * Number of employees: 4 * Turnover: Not given * Website: www.e-stack.
The only way to fight “catastrophic” climate change is to ditch coal, burn trees for fuel instead and use carbon capture and storage, according to a leading climate scientist. In an interview with the Independent on Sunday newspaper, Professor James Hansen says current targets for limiting the amount of carbon
arctic
As if we needed more evidence of climate change the World Wildlife Fund (WWF – that’s the environmental people and not the wrestlers) says Arctic sea ice may have reached its lowest ever levels in terms of total volume. This is due to declining ice thickness and the second lowest
The Clean Tech Start-up Index
Today’s business from Greenbang’s Clean Tech Start-up Index is DeepStream Technologies. * Founder/ MD: Mark Crosier * Founding date: 2003 * Number of employees: 80 * Turnover: £1 million * Website: www.deepstream.com DeepStream Technologies’ product gives you data of where, how and what energy is been wasted – and all this can
Clean Tech Start-up Index
Today we are giving you a sneaky peak into the workings of Credit360 Ltd, a company from our Clean Tech Start-up Index. * Founder/ CEO: Mark Shields * Founding date: 2002 * Number of employees: 20 * Turnover: £1 million * Website: www.credit360.com Credit360 makes software to analyse sustainability data to staff and
diesel
You can expect a bit of an eco-car frenzy over the next few weeks as the car manufacturers gear up for the big Paris Motor Show in early October. Expect plenty of greenwash too. But first out of the eco-blocks is Volvo, bigging up new more economical diesel versions of
green IT
It’s something of a statement of the obvious but tech industry analyst Gartner has found that corporate IT departments are being overwhelmed and confused by greenwash and the vendor marketing hype around green IT. Faced with this IT bosses are confused about the implications of green IT, including the
ccs
Brussels bureaucrats at the European Commission (EC) are preparing to establish what could be a massively important network of projects to demonstrate the use of the controversial carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects in power plants. As part of this the EC has this week put out a call inviting
