The President of Toyota Motor Corporation, Katsuaki Watanabe, has indicated a timescale on the company’s environmental agenda, further to last weeks response to the company’s sustainability mobilty vision. The announcement was made at the North American International Auto Show, where Watanbe confirmed that a new clean diesel V8
More lovely, lovely raw data on just how much environmental considerations are affecting businesses of all stripes. Have a guess. Go on. Think of a number… is it $100 billion? That’s how much the Worldwatch Institute reckons. “Once regarded as irrelevant to economic activity, environmental problems are drastically rewriting
Fuel cells eh? Where will they turn up next? That’s a rhetorical question of course. But if it were literal, the answer would be mobile phones, after Angstrom Power has developed a fuel cell that can work in Motorola mobiles without any need to tinker with the phone itself.
Erk. Speculation is afoot that the Arnie “Get to the chopper” Schwartzenegger’s plan to get a hydrogen fuelling stations dotting California is having some considerable problems, after some stations have shut up shop and plans for others have been shelved. Out of Arnie’s proposed 100 stations, only 22
electronics
As the US gets ready to ditch its analog (or analogue to anyone who knows how to spell) TVs and swap to digital instead, three electronics companies have scented blood and announced a union to deal with all the upcoming TV related tat. Panasonic, Sharp and Toshiba have joined up
Poor old VCs, eh? Sometimes you have to pity them. For those who’ve invested in green tech, it’s a case of puffing contentedly on a pipe and warming a crumpet by the fire, safe in the knowledge they’ve backed a winning horse. For those yet to throw
More funding news from the world of renewable waste-to-energy – or poo-burning, if you fancy putting it crudely – with waste-to-energy company Ze-Gen getting a nice fat cash injection from those VC types. Ze-Gen, obviously doesn’t describe itself as a poo-burner, rather a clean energy company providing advanced gasification technology to
Fnaar fnaar. Yup – it’s the bootylicious Swedes who have come up with a cracking plan to use human body heat to power an office. Jernhusen, a state-owned company, came up with the idea to take the body warmth from commuters who pass through Stockholm’s Central station, and use
Stretch your mind back past the New Year’s Eve celebrations and the cold turkey that lingered over Christmas, back further – to Bali. While all the world’s worthies were set on conquering climate change, some people were thinking so far outside the box they didn’t share a postcode
It’s like the budgie – cheap. See this little thing – well this is the new ‘People’s Car’, made by India’s Tata Motors. It costs £1,200 brand new. It’s causing a storm in the car industry because although it will be sold in India initially, the company
So the other day, Greenbang was mulling the future of those lovely, energy-saving LED lights and wondering if high prices would put people off. And you just let her witter on without putting your hand up and saying, “hey, check out Phillyburbs.com. In Falls, presumably located in those Philly
This will be big if it comes off. Hawaii is planning to build a dozen large solar power stations around the state. BusinessWeek says this could generate 34 megawatts of electricity. “This is one of the largest, if not the largest, state government solar initiatives in the nation,” said Ted
