development
Imagine your name was the X in this sentence: “Despite encouraging initiatives, X is still not on course to meet targets and urgently needs to raise its game”. You’d feel pretty bad wouldn’t you? You might stare at your shoes for a bit and kick the wall. The
Greenbang is about to take a break for Easter – it’s been a busy few weeks since Christmas, but we’ve made a fair bit of progress this year. The biggest change has been the look of the website. There were a few teething troubles with the changeover, but it
Greenbang has just been introduced to Forumforthefuture.org.uk This is a very tidy little resource on its own, but the talks that stem from the site look even more interesting. We’ve just had a bit of a chin wag with an attendee, who says these guys look at
climate
Having been to Las Vegas, Greenbang can testify that using less energy typically means taking one of those weird golf buggy things rather than their own legs to travel the 500 metres from the restaurant to the roulette wheel or seeing how long you can lie motionless beside the pool,
investment
There are times in life when the carrot is called for, and other times when the stick is what does the job (if you’ve ever tried to get a dog to fetch a carrot, or served up some boiled sticks with your Sunday roast, you’ll know what Greenbang
Greenbang remembers a bygone era when wind was just good for kite flying, drying clothes and sailing. Pah, stupid wind. What good was it to humanity then? Selfish, Greenbang reckons. Nowadays, thanks to the growing need for viable renewable energy options, human beings have forced the wind to do their
india
Carbon is the new Panini stickers – it looks like everyone’s up for trading these days (Greenbang has the shiny foil ones – they’re worth more). The latest to jump on the “got, got, need, got, swap,” bandwagon is the World Bank’s lender, International Finance Corporation (IFC). The IFC
energy
There’s good news and there’s bad news. Which do you want first? Bad news? Greenbang always does in that order too. So, the bad news (and, hey, it may not even be that bad if you’re not a fan of the occasional flutter) is that Sal DiMasi,
Greenbang today went along to a panel discussion with Al Gore – the man – and John Chambers, CEO of Cisco Networks. Here’s the podcast. The cool thing was that it was all done over Telepresence (posh video conferencing for you and me) between a few different locations. We (the UK
business
How often have you wondered if your cheap shirt from a budget clothes store was made by a some underage, underpaid worker in a Chinese sweatshop? Greenbang is guessing if you answered yes, you’re probably not the only one. By a long shot. If you were doing the Family
It might help a bit, but there’s a lot of other stuff you can do as well. That’s the conclusion, we reckon. One of Greenbang’s writers wrote a piece for the Financial Times about it today. Note the hommage to the Hoff – thin-client computing needed something fun
austin
So, we’re all like: “yeah, I’m all about plug-in hybrids, you know? It’s so cool, emission-free and that. Saving the plant one car journey at a time, right?” and that’s good and everyone’s happy and we’re all cruising about about in our hybrids and
