Buildings are responsible for more than 45 per cent of the UK’s total carbon emissions, according to the Environment Agency. There are many elements to making buildings more environmentally friendly. The location, energy efficiency, materials efficiency, water efficiency, appearance and the health and safety of occupants are all contributing
nitrate
The only headlines the Dutch town of Twente has made recently have been around employing former England football manager and ‘wally with a brolly’, Steve MacLaren and the team’s upcoming European Champions League match against Arsenal. But while Twente’s citizens gear up to give the Gunners a pasting,
When it comes to attracting the eyes (and the bursting-at-the-seams) wallets of the private equity merchants, it seems creativity doesn’t go amiss. Alas, the moneymen have failed to see the potential in Greenbang’s potential to recycle the Stella-and-kebab flavoured vomit that collects around the streets of south London
clean tech
Greenbang doesn’t know if you’ve noticed, but leggings have made a comeback. Greenbang has no idea why that most 80s of fashion crimes – which made even the most slim and attractive of women look like a load of potatoes wrestling in a Lyrcra condom – outstayed its welcome long
biofuels
For a company whose name is dangerously close to the proper word for your gooch, (look it up on urban dictionary if you’re unsure – or don’t, if you’re at work and someone’s looking over your shoulder) biofuels bunch Verenium knows how to pull in the readies.
energy
The Technology Strategy Board and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council aren’t names imbued with rockstar status – unless you like rockstars with a working knowledge of microprocessor innards and the periodic table – but with the money they’re bandying around today, they might as well be asking their
As well as Olympic fever, August means two things for residents of Bristol. The balloon fiesta, happening now, and the kite festival, at the end of the month. The latter is particularly important – well, in these days of health and safety, where else can you jump on a skateboard, get
Greenbang always secretly wanted to be a boy racer, revving suped up custom versions of really rather rubbish cars with fat exhaust pipes and ginormous spoilers round the car park at Netto, doing burn-ups and handbrake turns. It was something about the noise emanating from exhausts the size of a
Mega PC box shifter Dell has planted its (no doubt green and recycled) stake in the ground, claiming to be the first tech company to be carbon neutral. And not only that but it has done it ahead of schedule, by about five months, natch. Ah, there we go again
The Beijing Olympic flame will be lit in a little over an hour from now. So, in it’s honour:
department of energy
This morning Greenbang stumbled over a press release bearing the excellent title of Department of Energy to Pursue Zero-Net Energy Commercial Buildings. Last time Greenbang looked, buildings don’t move ever so fast, so she’s presuming that it’s not a high speed pursuit and the DoE has a
rural
Greenbang went to the country once. She wasn’t quite sure what all the fuss was about – sure, there’s scenery that would bring a tear to a glass eye and country pubs with open fires and salt-of-the-earth landlords but could you get a Ginsters pasty and a bottle of
