CHINA WATCH By Yan Yan, Beijing The Chinese government is changing tactics, from an indulgent parent to a “green” nanny, looking after every corner of offices and houses they’re urging people to be green. The latest worry? Photocopiers. China will impose its new standards of power consumption with an
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Greenbang was never overly keen on chemistry at school. Melting rulers over bunsen burners and giving biros acid baths were her favourite activities in the lab. Perhaps if she’d applied herself a bit, she could’ve found herself at the forefront of biochemical engineering inventing a green fuel like
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Perusing the website of Orb Energy, Greenbang was taken on a mental musical mystery tour. The landing page of the site bears the legend ‘you’ve got the power. Before Greenbang could get any deeper into the site, she was assailed mentally by thoughts of Snap’s mid 90s charttopper
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Think Intel and you probably think of a jingle that goes dink dink DINK DINK and back in the dark mists of history also featured blue men mucking about in some paint. Or something. If you need to purge that gruesome image from your delicate mind and find a more
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Browsing the Defra site this morning, Greenbang came across a press release which revealed Department is consulting on a strategy to protect the health of honey bees. Greenbang recommends the bees should give up smoking, cut back on the red meat and do a bit more cardiovascular exercise. Although Greenbang
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Town planners hoping to steal some green headlines must be a little hacked off right now, after Masdar popped up and weed on their chips. How can you cover yourself in green building glory when you’re standing in the shadow of a city that plans to be 100 percent
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Pensions funds remind Greenbang of Otto von Bismarck’s remark that “Laws are like sausages, it is better to not see them being made.” Greenbang is a cultured lass like that. What goes into sausages and what goes into building pension funds sometimes doesn’t bare thinking about. The arms
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Is all the talk of economic meltdown giving you a bit of a headache? Feeling a bit down from all the misery mongering? Well, put your feet up, Greenbang will get you a bit of news tea accompanied by a venture capital biscuit. Mmm, tastes fund-y. Today’s economic bright
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Dammit. The EU must be feeling a bit like the superhero battling a supervillian when the energy from the laser weapon he uses is eaten up by the supervillain and only serves to make him stronger than he was to start off with. Sort of. Apparently, the European carbon emissions
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There are many memorable things about The Producers. Springtime for Hitler and Germany, for example, tends to stick in the mind. The comedy, the glitz, the knob gags. Producers of biodiesel, though – not so flash. Still, they might not inspire the sort of quotes people practice down the pub with
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Greenbang’s getting rather excited about this year’s US presidential election. Normally, choosing between presidential candidates is no different to choosing between different washing powders. They all look the same and do the same thing, its just that one has nicer packaging than the other. In the electoral spirit,
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Greenbang once had the pleasure of flying business class. On arrival she was asked by a smiling stewardess: “champagne or orange juice?” Greenbang assumed this was a trick question, posed by the powers that be to assess her suitability to be flying among the great and the overly monied. She
