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What can toy cars teach us, apart from if you keep things in their original boxes they’re worth far more on eBay? Apparently, they can show us a whole load more – for example, you can stick a fuel cell just about anywhere. Toymaker Corgi has unveiled a fuel cell
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Ken Livingstone will have to go a long way to apologise to the world for his part in a series of adverts promoting cheese back in the heady brace and leg warmer wearing 1980s. Back then, he was pushing red leicester, trading on his Red Ken nickname. Now he’s
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Old people, computers and Mars Bars” there are many things that started off big once and before you know it, they’re shrinking before your very eyes. That’s what’s happening with carbon capture. It was initially designed for large scale uses, like capturing emissions from oilfields, now researchers
John Higgins, director general of technology trade association Intellect, examines the role of the industry in climate change. Here he goes then: “The technology sector is a new industry and has developed at extraordinary speed over the last few decades, and on a scale far beyond early predictions. It also
Watch this – it’s interesting. Young African entrepreneur Selemani Kinyunyu outlines his carbon credit trading business. His company works with local farmers to grow indigenous trees that absorb carbon. He then sells carbon credits to eco-tourists.
You know when you’re out down Tescos and something’s on buy one get one free, so buy three of them because you think you’re saving money but you didn’t really need it and you’ve actually spent twice as much as you meant to? Well, apparently,
Phew. Good news all around. No more hunting around the back of the sofa for spare change, no more putting second hand tat on eBay and, thank heavens, no more busking: for it looks like the Crown Estate is set to get a boost of £100 million from renting land
There’s something deeply, deeply impressive about the number one trillion, don’t you think? Something a bit Buck Rogers; ‘a trillion light years away…’. It’s a number that seems more at home when applied to the number of cells in the human body, and somewhat incredible when actually
The concepts of sustainability and study don’t offer go together, except in sentences such as “‘this level of drinking/debt is not sustainable,’ said a hungover/poor student.” Still, according to an article Greenbang read earlier, universities are starting to put sustainability courses on their curricula. Good show. The
When Tata Motors came out with the ‘People’s Car’ aka the Nano – a £1,200 petrol powered vehicle, it sent the green lobby reaching for paper bags to stop the hyperventilation and restorative pints of whisky to calm their nerves. Now Tata is apparently getting ready to pull a
Howdy there Welcome to Greenbang version 3. Nothing has changed other than we’ve had a facelift to make Greenbang look prettier and easier to handle. Now we’ve got this in place, it should enable us to do a bit more and make it easier to find stuff. Massive
Google, the search giant best known for a). giving away things for free and b). not being Microsoft has decided to give away some of its cash to some cash starved green projects (does Greenbang’s attempt to build a green house out of empty plastic bottles count?). Google’s
