As the Clinton-Obama battle heats up, (Greenbang would like to put in a shout for a televised arm-wrestle to settle the matter) Obama is going for the green vote, showing off his eco-credentials as he toured a green building specialist last week. Apparently, Obama said if he were to find
Greenbang has always wondered about the World Bank. I mean, for something that claims “world” in its title, you never see any cash points about do you? Or branches. And the World Bank has never offered Greenbang a low rate on her credit card. Still it turns out that World
If you’re feeling a bit on the shaky side after all the talk of sub prime-related economic meltdown, then you’d probably best not read the rest of this. Go on – put on an episode of the Good Life or something and take it easy. For those of a
Greenbang is considering creating a pack of solar IPO Top Trumps, there seems to be so many companies floating on the stock market at the moment. Real Goods Solar has filed the paperwork it needs to get itself on the Nasdaq, and is aiming to generate up to $57.5
This isn’t about anything green, but brown. It’s just bloody funny.
Greenbang was on the hunt for an image to illustrate a story about thin film. Funnily enough, she couldn’t find one and had to settle for this rather beautiful pic of cling film. Near enough.Talking of near enough, do you think the name ersol is near enough to
After getting a bit bah humbug about the CES’ attempts at green gadgets, Greenbang was slightly cheered up to read a story over at Information Week about the Greener Gadgets conference, where the great and the good and the green showed off all their big green ideas. Here are a
O Canada: country of contrasts. On the down side, Due South and seal clubbing. On the up side, Trailer Park Boys and the country’s very first climate change fund. The latter was announced this week by Scotia Securities, “designed for investors looking for exposure to environmentally responsible companies,without
If you’ve been tarting up your house in an effort to flog it before the inevitable property crash, Greenbang has a pair of handy tips: 1. move your manor to LA, (Greenbang recommends maybe taking a leaf out of the Wizard of Oz on this one( and 2. whack
Watching the electric cars vs hydrogen cars debate feels like watching a very long game of chess to Greenbang – one where both sides are looking dangerously tasty. BMW’s head of clean-energy technology, Jochen Schmalholz, reckons it’s going to be a very, very loooooooooong game of chess, telling Australia’
‘Necessary’ is a word Greenbang was made to write out 100 times at school because he kept getting the spelling wrong. Well Mr Newbold, it stuck! Anyway – walking past the World War II Museam in London the other day, Greenbang saw this wartime poster with the phrase: “Is your journey
Okay, so the H2GO, from Corgi International, might be something more for Noddy than Clarkson. But it’s still worth a mention. This radio-controlled toy car powered by fuel-cell energy technology was unveiled at the Nuremberg International Toy Fair in Germany. Power for the H2GO is delivered by an on-board
