Greenbang really hates the Oscars. Hates them. Hates them more drinking a cup of pureed liver topped with cold sick. The back slapping, the endless news reports on who’s wearing what frock, the self-conscious worthiness of it all. Greenbang really hates the Oscars. Still, she’ll be hating them
Here are a few things that Greenbang considers impressive: satellites, academics, cheese with wax coating, the cloning of sheep and anyone that can play the harp. Here’s something else impressive: the projected profits from a new union between Real Logic and another company to create a new range of
It seems, much like Greenbang, the government has been avoiding tackling the supermarkets wherever possible. Always busy when you need a couple of pints of semi skimmed. Bad government, naughty government. That’s a short summary of the latest report from the Sustainable Development Commission. Here’s a long one
Patricia Pascoe of Kyocera Mita. Pat is about to retire from Kyocera but has backed Greenbang from the beginning – Kyocera is our sponsor. Her colleagues wrote in to wish her all the best: “She’s retiring at the end of this month having founded our Green Card Network and run
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Money eh? You can’t give it away. That’s the thing about having £50 million going begging – no one wants to take it off your hands. Actually, no, wait a minute. You would have thought it would be pretty easy to give away. However, if you’ve got £50
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Here’s an interesting little development from Tunisia, courtesy of the folks of Kyocera. It seems that solar power is not just doing its thing and getting rid of other carbon-heavy electricity generation, it’s also bringing people onto the grid who have never had electricity before. From this year,
Greenbang largely wants to share this story with you because it’s got the term “misinformed craze” in it. Great wordage, I think you’ll agree. Anyway, the phrase is being bandied about by two French researchers, who believe that hybrid vehicles are just delaying the advent of more environmentally
Today’s pop quiz: come up with three facts about the state of Philadelphia. Greenbang will help you out on the first two. 1. It was the original home of Will Smith’s character in the TV series The Fresh Prince before he “got in one little fight and my
There’s something very endearing about the name Cool Earth Solar. At least investors thought so, reaching into their great big funding wallets to give the company $21 million in series A financing. Cool Earth Solar, along with its deeply endearing name, produces utility scale solar power plants. Says Dr
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If you work in tech, it’s time to put on your smug hat. If you work in green tech, it’s time to put on your smug hat, smug jumpsuit and flashing ‘I’m smug’ light-up tie, for Bill Cobourn, global & U.S. technology leader and partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers
Our pals at the Matter Network sent us this interview with sustainability expert George Kehler. Is it Greenbang, or does he look a bit like the movie and dance man Patrick Swayze? George Kehler has 15 years of managing energy resources and setting energy policy. While working for Dow Chemical
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This rather brings a new meaning to the term power dressing: Zhong Lin Wang and his fellow scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology have dreamt up a new fabric that could create an electric charge from the movements of the wearer could be used to generate power. The nanofibre
