The adage that ‘children are our future’ is a touch on the crass and cheesy side of prose. Yet when UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says it, you still sit up and pay attention. Yesterday, the South Korean leader of the world organisation emphasised the role of today’s youth in
He may drive an SUV, but it seems the mayor of San Francisco is seeking to enhance his green legacy before leaving the office. The city’s figurehead, Gavin Newsom has already accepted an award from ICLEI, a local government sustainability body, for the city’s effort to combat climate
What do you do when you realise your neighbourhood polluting coal power plant is…er… a neighbourhood polluting coal power plant. If you’re a chicken farm north of Beijing, with three million odd chickens, then you convert it to use the 220 tonnes of waste chicken poop – of course.
Greenbang is such a poor driver that he once drove the 30-odd miles back from Liverpool to Preston entirely in third gear as it was the only one that worked properly in the knackered old Ford Escort he’d borrowed. Once you got going it wasn’t too bad, but
It seems that climate change is allowing plant species to climb. According to research published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, nine plant species native to the steep slopes of the Santa Rosa Mountains in California have shifted an average of 213 feet up the mountainside. All
A123 Systems (now there’s a business that was thinking of its Yellow Pages listing when coming up with its name), the company behind lithium-ion batteries for the transport industry, as well as systems for the electric grid and portable power markets, has stated its intent to raise $175m in
Skin is a useful thing really. It keeps your insides in, and everything else out, apart from mosquitos and vampires’ teeth. And if judiciously applied, it can even power your iPod and the assorted other consumer gadgets that Greenbang bets you’ve got in your briefcase. Researchers over at the
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Researchers must be a lot like milk: if you leave them alone for long enough, all sorts of crazy stuff develops. Although in milk’s case, most of it would give you severe digestive wrongness, scientists’ work can often make you feel better about things. According to those clever folk
Mobile and flexible working has massive potential to help reduce power consumption and carbon emissions by cutting out that polluting commute and placing less reliance on big offices and all the carbon baggage they bring. Which is why Greenbang is delighted to be supporting the People Moving Business Awards 2008.
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Let’s play a word association game (think Mallett’s Mallet but without the threat of violence from a berk with a rubber hammer). Cat (Greenbang imagines you’re thinking ‘cat’). Food (Greenbang guess you’re thinking ‘eat’). Greenbang says word (bet your response is ‘association’). And last one? Philippe
A month ago, Barclays faced a call for boycott over Zimbabwe. Now, campaign groups are calling for a boycott on several high street banks, including RBS, HSBC and Barclays, because they are still channeling billions of new investment into coal. According to the Guardian: The warning came as 50 campaigners
It was truly amazing to see the power that a really big stick can wield. When petrol was affordable people still used vast quantities of it. Hummers were popular. And, cheap holidays were the order of the day. Over the weekend, a panelist on a BBC Radio 4 debate commented
