January is over – thank goodness – and we step positively into February. Life at Greenbang Towers has been a bit chicken oriental of late. We’ve just made it onto CNBC’s list of top blogs, Google News has started to take our news, and we’re just about to relaunch
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With the UK’s weather is about as much fun as sandpaper enema at the moment, close your curtains and remember how very good it was to have a pint in the sun. Greenbang can’t bring you that, but how about a way to have some sun in your
London’s pay-as-you-pollute system is now alive and kicking, with Ken Livingston taking the wraps off the captials’ Low Emission Zone (LEZ) which will penalise polluting truckers. Says the Transport for London: In London, road transport is the single biggest source of Particulate Matter (PM10) and oxides of Nitrogen(NOX)
Gordon Gekko might be somewhat disappointed if he was hanging around Wall Street these days. Gone is “greed is good” and in is “green is good”, if the Carbon Principles scheme hot off the presses this week is anything to go buy. The program, created by Citi, JPMorgan Chase and
Ever wondered why the UK is a little (ahem) behind when it comes to renewable energy? It’s all about politics and cereal, says The New Statesman. Apparently Jonathon Porritt, chair of the Sustainable Development Commission tells the august organ that it’s all about Gordon Brown’s image crisis.
If you’re the kind of person that likes the very finest things in life, maybe you enjoy sniff caviar from a spoon made of diamonds and unicorn’s horn, then you might fancy treating yourself to the Rolls Royce of fuel cells. Literally. For the company, better known for
Some of the world’s biggest companies could be made to to discose their greenhouse emissions and report on their strategy for climate change. The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), a collaboration of 385 investors with assets of $57 trillion, is making the demand for data, which will be held on
As more and more businesses aim to go green, so springs up an industry aiming to offer them advice on how to go about it – think of it as a mother-in-law but on all things environmental. Now one of those mothers-in-law has found itself taken over, with the news that
Psst – fancy making a quick buck? Ditch the scratchcards, leave the armed robberies alone and get yourself into wind farms, for apparently there’s a lack of experienced technicians.It’s not exactly unexpected, what with demand for solar power expanding faster than bamboo going through a growth spurt but
Greenbang is going to send a tree to someone this week, but we thought it would be fun to get you lot to vote for who that lucky person is. It could be anyone in business – they don’t have to read us, but there does have to be a
