Hello Readers, I am delighted to invite you to Greenbang’s 1st birthday party on June 19th in London. Please mark the date in your diary. We’re putting some money behind a bar in a location that will be disclosed later this month, as we haven’t booked it
If you want to find out how the media is really shaping up these days, get yourself down to Greenbang’s mate Bernhard Warner’s event on social media influence. The event is on June 4 and has some big names speaking. While there are people speaking who get the
hybrid
If you were sitting around wondering how many hybrid cars are filling the driveways of Europe, mop your fevered brow and breathe out, for Greenbang has some info to share with you. The info in question is the amount of Priuses (is that the plural of Prius? Or should it
energy
Utrecht may have the unfortunate curse of a name which sounds roughly the same as someone yakking up a stubborn ball of phlegm, but it’s also home to sustainable energy bunch Econcern, which has just put out its latest lot of results bandying around figures big enough to make
australia
The Aussies put out their latest federal budget last week and, in between ringfencing the necessary cash to ensure the canonisation of pop pixie and national treasure ™ Kylie Minogue and an adequate supply of rope for the tying down of the country’s kangaroos, sport, there’s been an Uluru-sized
funding
If Google was keen on finding a source of renewable energy, Greenbang would humbly suggest building a bonfire out of the wads and wads of large denomination notes that doubtless make up the company’s founders’ pocket change. Just throwing the spare wads of twenties that have slipped down the
computing
IBM is helping change Greenbang’s mind about high tech rice. Previously, Greenbang had considered the bastard love child of technology and rice – that two minute microwave precooked nonsense – as an embarrassment to the human race. What kind of lazy-arsed folk can be bothered to cook rice? It’s not
From our friends at the Matter Network. For those concerned with the state of the environment, many of this week’s headlines might not have seemed the most promising. After a long and protracted battle, the polar bear finally made its presence on the United States’ list of endangered species
It was only a matter of time before the big tech firms started to realise that without electricity, there ain’t no interwebby. Greenbang started reading about IBM’s clean-tech investments last year. Word on the street is that this has been ready for some time, but they’ve just
Yan Yan in Beijing Last weekend, something embarrassing happened to Greenbang in the supermarket. She walked into the supermarket and picked up something she didn’t plan to buy. And when she was in a line waiting to pay, she suddenly realized she did not have a grocery bag with
By Yan Yan in Beijing Let’s see what Chinadaily has said: With the Measures for the Disclosure of Environmental Information coming into force on May 1, all enterprises in China are expected to timely and accurately make public their ecological footprints. This will bring to an end the embarrassing
Biofuels have a bad name, but we’ve been following D1 Oils for a while through the splash-and-dash fuel stories. The company, a UK producer of biofuels, is trialling the potential of Jatropha curcas, its main biodiesel crop, in poor soil conditions on the island of Sumatra in Indonesia. Jatropha
