Everyone’s favourite Prius maker Toyota has come up with a new fuel cell hybrid vehicle which it reckons is the bees knees. Why is it so reminiscent of apiarian joints? Because it has the new Toyota FC stack, apparently. The stack means that the hybrid vehicles will have a
europe
There’s an interesting story over at The Guardian – according to the paper, the EC is considering whacking ads for polluting cars with an eco-warning. Like cigarettes carry warnings of lung cancer and other respiratory ills, so polluting cars would have to carry a “climate hazard alert” when marketed in
Greenbang first encountered starter packs when she was a wee young lass and her parents wanted her to learn an instrument. For months she stood in front of a clarinet starter pack failing to get a note that resembled anything close to a C sharp. Since then, she has learned
energy
Greenbang’s never thought of the military as being a particularly flexible bunch. Take Action Man. He’s so inflexible on the question of lower body nudity, he had his pants glued to his groin. And he could bend his knees or his elbows – how inflexible can you get? It
Inglenook
It’s Friday, so Greenbang’s mind naturally turns to several glasses of red. As you, dear readers, are well aware, Greenbang is always on the hunt for the most innovative ways of tackling environmental issues so with both that and a tasty shiraz in mind, for your benefit, she’
heat
On cold winter’s days as a youth, Greenbang would stand behind the exhaust pipe of the family car, warming her legs on the hot gas as her dad tried to coax the old banger into a few more miles of life. In retrospect, it’s easy to see Greenbang
biodiesel
According to the New York Times, there’s a terrible new scourge attacking America’s beloved fast food restaurants. While you sleep, they’re out there prowling – on the hunt for yellow gold. Oh yes – the fat hunters are striking. The New York Times says that miscreants, driven by higher
clean tech
Mirror mirror on the wall, who’s the best* at clean tech of them all? Why, it’s little old Europe, says a survey by Deloitte and the National Venture Capital Association. And the survey goes like this: According to venture capitalists, Europe is emerging as a new leader behind
A couple of days ago, the New York Times published an article that led with the following statement, ‘The Bush administration has worked overtime to manipulate or conceal scientific evidence — and muzzled at least one prominent scientist — to justify its failure to address climate change.” Today, the Prince of Wales’
mainstream
How do you follow up a massive success? If you’re the Crazy World of Arthur Brown, the simple answer is you don’t: you make Fire and then you go back and sit around for a bit, not bothering the top 40. Eddie O’Connor, the brains behind Airtricity
energy
Are you a sheet metal worker, machinist, truck driver? Roofer, insulator and electrician? There’s a whole world of green jobs just waiting for you, according to a new report. No word on if the green world wants everyone else, staring out the window into the gloom of the capital
labour
Round at Tory central, if you listen hard over the sound of smuggery and privilege, you might be able to hear the sound of squealing tyres and a hand brake going on hard. No stunt men here, rather the sound of David Cameron pulling a lazy U-turn on green road
