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Defra has gone news mental these days. Every time Greenbang turns around it’s making another announcement, enabling the trotting out of some lazy Mr Benn puns (Greenbang tips her hat to the Defra media folk for always referring to the venerable Hilary as Mr Benn). So what have the
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Greenbang likes this story a lot. She would even go so far as to say “Moi, j’aime cet article”, mainly because she wants to show off her French GCSE. The story that prompts this educational grandstanding comes courtesty of The Observer: French winemakers are turning to water transport rather
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Scotland is to get a green energy centre, called rather cleverly the Scottish European Green Energy Centre, which will help out the EU in tackling its big-ass carbon cutting plan by giving other European countries a nice helping hand on research into renewable energy. There were no timescales, targets or
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Hoorah. It looks like Apple and Nokia are not only scrapping it out for the title of ‘mobile phone daddy’, they’re also having the environmental equivalent of a thumb-war over recycling their end-of-life kit. According to a veritable slew of reports, Apple has added iPod and mobile phone recycling
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Those crazy Tories. What will they think of next eh? The answer is a green trading market, much like the AIM. Sorry to disappoint you if you were hoping the answer was going to be a Conservative machine for time travel able to bring the cream of Tory PMs back
It looks like the US House of Representatives is going to be witness to an interesting bill this week, as the Democrats introduce the Renewable Energy and Energy Conservation Tax of 2008 (H.R. 5351). Interesting not only for the pat on the head it will deliver to clean, renewable
Porsche is throwing its toys out of the pram again this week in response to Ken Livingstone’s plans to charge owners of heavy-polluting cars £25 a day to drive in London. The company furiously slammed Ken’s plans last week and launched a petition to fight the move. This
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Greenbang feels a bit like she’s had three cups of coffee and half a cup of sugar: there’s a maelstrom of information whirling about in her brains and she’s not sure how to get it out. That’s what happens if you read government consultation papers for
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Like bees on honey and flies on, you know, whatever flies go for, VCs have been going mad for electric cars of late. After Tesla got a cool $40 million funding boost last week, now it’s the turn of Miles Electric Vehicles. The company has just been given a
If you think you’ve lost the ability to be wowed by numbers in the green investing game, think again. How does $10 billion sound? To Greenbang, it sounds like the blast of a Dukes of Hazzard horn, as the General Lee shoots into view, wheels spinning, over the horizon.
