The Bentley: as English as 12 pints of Stella, a curry and a fight and soon to be as environmentally friendly as a summer breeze from Lapland. No longer merely vehicles for shuttling the upper classes between lacrosse and gin, the Bentley will soon be more efficient and more biofuels-y.
overspending
Why do credit cards exist? To let people spend money they don’t have, right? A new sofa here, a beer and a burger down Wetherspoons there – it all adds up and it has to be paid for somehow. That’s where credit cards come in. Only government departments don’
Zing! While we were getting all distracted about CeBIT and watching Germany like a dog watches its owner eat a beef sandwich, but instead Geneva is where it’s at and the Motor Show has turned into a great big swirling pot of hot news. And here is that news
green
Remember the kid who you played football with as a kid? If he had to play in the universally unpopular goal, he’d take his ball and go home. Greenbang is reminded of that kid as a result of pronouncements from some energy companies. You see, the government is eyeing
Hi guys Please could you fill this in for me. Come on, give me a hand. It would really help. Big fat thanks Dan (Greenbang Chief)
rubber
Ah, rubber: the stuff of welly boots, the bands that hold your newspaper together and gimps’ material of choice. Now welly-boot-wearing, newspaper reading gimps can be safe in the knowledge their love of rubber will shortly be having less of an impact on the environment after SiGNa Chemistry signed a
clean tech
Do you like numbers? It must be your lucky day, for Greenbang has some new insights into the total worth of the clean tech market. Mind you, if you like numbers, then every day must be your lucky day – just look at your bank card, there are a load on
greenpeace
The consumer electronics industry must have a callous on its wrist from being slapped so much by the green lobby. And that callous is going to get even more calloused with the latest verdict from Greenpeace on consumer electronics’ performance: in short, a bit cobblers really. As if you expected
biofuels
That George Bush is a little slow isn’t he? Greenbang doesn’t mean slow in that way, although, you know, that’s probably true too, but slow to pick up on environmental trends. The leader of the home of the free has just cottoned onto the fact that the
They say the first person to invent a way to capture carbon emissions will be the one who makes all the money in this green business game. Meet head of Origo Industries Ian Houston, a man who claims to have such technology in his pocket. So does he? To prove
hydrogen
You would have thought anything Richard Branson (that’s Sir Richard Branson to you) wants, he gets. If he wants hot and cold running models, riding dodos, wearing platinum ingots and flanked by unicorns, he’d just have to root around behind his sofa and magic up the necessary funds.
