boulder
When Greenbang heard that the city of Boulder was getting smart, she wasn’t sure what Colorado had other bits of America were somewhat lacking in, notably the area around Paris Hilton. Still, it turns out that it’s not an injection of brain food is not what’s on
concentrating solar power
Greenbang would like to introduce you to Torresol, or ‘Sun tower’ in English, a company that has a bit of a ‘does what it says on the tin’ approach to naming. Can you guess what they do yet? No, silly, nothing to do with holiday apartments. Masdar, the company behind
Business & Environment Summit: Climate Change Opportunities 2pm – 7pm + drinks, Monday 14th April 2008 – Saïd Business School, Park End Street, Oxford Sir David King opens Saïd Business School’s new annual summit We are delighted to announce the inaugural Business & Environment Summit at The Saïd Business School in Oxford.
Two observations about the European Green IT Summit today, even though we’re not even there. Well the first is that it’s happening – and that in our opinion is a very good thing. Well, it’s a very good thing, providing that a lot of people don’t get
china
China is changing its eco-policy guardians from plain old State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA) to a ministry – an upgrade that can only find peer in Cringer’s transformation into Battlecat every week in the kids cartoon He Man or for that matter, from Eric into the eponymous Bananaman. According to
general electric
What do you like on your rolls? Cheese? Ham? Or, if you’re Lady Penelope, Royce? What about OLEDs, the super efficient lighting devices that are set to replace illumination as we know it? After four years and $13 million-worth of research, General Electric and GE Consumer & Industrial have
energy
The findings of a study by green tech marketers EcoAlign remind Greenbang of Henry Ford’s observation that people’s reputations are based on what they’ve done, not what they’re going to do (okay, so Ford was no Oscar Wilde, but he made a point). EcoAlign’s EcoPinion
This cartoon seemed to fit the mood of the day – it’s the European Green IT Summit today. Seems like a good line up of speakers.
Intelligent Energy
Greenbang read with interest that the 90s Lycra-clad nonsense fest that is Gladiators is to be brought back to our screens, fronted by former Arsenal legend Ian Wright and former Sky Sports beauty Kirsty Gallacher. Sounds like an ideal pairing. Not, however, as ideal as the union between Scottish and
australia
Australia’s Queensland is known as the Sunshine State. Just the sort of place you’d want to think about setting up a scheme to pay people switching to solar energy. Which, funnily enough, is exactly what’s been happening over there. Queensland Premier, Anna Bligh, will kick off a
Carbon Trust 2008 Budget response EU ETS – Auctioning of allowances Dr James Wilde, Director of Insights said: “We strongly welcome the decision that in Phase III the UK will auction 100 per cent of allowances to the large electricity producers’ sector. More auctioning will be important as the current national
Good afternoon, With regards to today’s Budget speech, I have a quotation from the director of Siemens Financial Services which I thought you might be interested in. Darling claimed that “we need to do more to reduce the amount of carbon generated at home and at work” and that
