Photos of polar bears, ice caps and all that other climate-change stuff will fail to ‘resonate’ with the public when they are used for marketing purposes, a report from Getty Images says. “Imagery has the ability to convey this political and emotive issue in a way that makes it real
Spanish car maker Seat has decided to deck out its factory in Matrorell with solar panels, which is reckons will save it 11,7000 tonnes of carbon emissions. (Is it Greenbang or is Spain becoming something of a hotspot for solar energy at the moment, if you’ll excuse the
Greenbang is more excited about this then is strictly necessary. See this odd-looking computer generated beast? This is what a team of British engineers are working on. Not the drawing, of course, the real thing: a hydrogen-powered, eco-friendly plan that can get from the UK to Australia in under five
Those good folk over at CERA (that’s the Cambridge Energy Research Associates and also the Spanish word for wax, although Greenbang doesn’t think the two are related) have been studying the affects of everyone’s interest in climate change and the stopping thereof, and they’ve come up
It looks like Arnie might have to build an intercontinental hydrogen highway, with the news that India is getting its first hydrogen fuelling station in Delhi. Eden Energy’s subsidiary Hythane has got the nod to build it from IndianOil, with the project set to cost around $1 million. Scheduled
Have you given up anything for Lent? No? Greenbang has. She decided to not drink drain cleaner for the next 40 days – and, while she doesn’t like to blow her own trumpet, she’s pretty confident she’ll breeze through the next month-and-a-bit without wavering. If you went for
Greenbang has always wondered what to do with her forest thinnings (what are forest thinnings? Results of dieting woodland?), crop residues (Greenbang has a few residues knocking about, who doesn’t?) and waste paper (last week’s Economist and Viz then) and now she has the answer: turn it into
In Greenbang’s mind, recycling tyres means tying a bit of rope to one and making a swing or using a bit of voodoo and creating a humanoid made entirely of cast off tyres, à la Michelin Man. Luckily, others have got better ideas – like CBp Carbon Industries, which has
Here’s a hydrogen breakthrough that’s playing on Greenbang’s mind. Apparently, scientists at Texas A&M University have tinkered a bit with the genes of E.coli – removed six of them – and as a result the dodgy-burger bacteria can now produce hydrogen at a rate 140 times
Greenbang will put on her grown-up face for a moment in order to talk to you sensibly about effulent and beer. Not a natural combination, you might agree, but the two are brought together with the news of an effulent processor and renewable energy firm changing hands. Ecolab Inc. announced
Suniva has revealed it’s found itself on the business end of $50 million dollars in venture capital funding, the solar-cell-manufacturing little devil. For the VC spotters out there, the series B funding was co-led by New Enterprise Associates, and Advanced Equities, with Goldman Sachs Group, HIG Ventures and Quercus
