Bank of America is to get its very own environmental banking team, ready to dole out cash to those who fancy pumping it new ways to fight carbon. The bank’s boss has also called for a carbon trading system – presumably much like the sticker swapping of Greenbang’s playground
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Feast your gorgeous orbs on this silver bad boy. It’s Nokia’s Remade phone, made of 100 percent renewable or recycled materials and it’s being shown off by the manufacturer this week. It’s not actually a working model, more something Nokia’s boffins are messing around with
Greenbang went for a swim this morning. He did about 30 lengths and called it a day. When he left the pool to get dressed, he realised he’d forgotten his towel. Bugger. Suddenly he felt like he was back at school in PE class, as there was only one
Jurdy gets it wrong…
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If Greenbang were a CEO of a major company, she would spend a lot of time chomping on a cigar, swinging around in her high-backed leather wheely chair and gazing out of her window, saying “soon all this will be mine!” and then cackling maniacally and then taking over a
The IT industry’s superbrains say companies must ‘act now’ and use low-carbon tech to prevent ‘irreparable harm to the environment’. Intellect, the trade association for the UK technology industry, has published a report entitled High Tech: Low Carbon, which looks at the issues relating to the energy demands of
David Hampton, director at finance and economic consultancy LECG, is an expert advisor on climate change. He’s a bit miffed at Ken’s car-carbon tax and kindly sent us his thoughts: “The congestion charge would be much more effective (both in tackling congestion and climate change) if it were
Greenbang recently wrote a sponsored feature on sustainable motoring for the New Scientist. Much of the research was drawn from Erling Holden, who wrote this book – Achieving Sustainable Mobility. His research found that while petrol engines were the worst performers in terms of carbon emissions and fuel efficiency, petrol-electric hybrids
Well there’s a shock. But anything for a bit of PR on the green front will do wonders for your relationship with the boss. Well not here it won’t. It just makes you look silly. Too harsh? Maybe – but it’s late and Greenbang’s had a big
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A friend of Greenbang’s maintains he can tell the difference between Pepsi and Coke. Not only that, but he can also tell the difference in taste between Pepsi from a can and from a bottle and even what region the Pepsi came from. Mind you, that friend did also
If you want greener goods, do you have to flash the cash? Not necessarily, Wal-Mart’s director of sustainability reckons. Says the fella on Reuters: “Bad quality products create waste, and so having tighter standards on the social side, on the environmental side and on the quality side will reduce
We’ve just had word that Borders – the book shop on Oxford Street, anyway – has launched a software on demand service. Basically, customers walking into the bookstore can choose a title they wish to purchase, go to the till and the software (games, learning, pc software etc. etc.) is then
