You could spend time on a beautiful Pacific Island lazing around, working on your tan, dipping your toes in the azure waters and startling the fish, maybe have a cocktail or two. You could, of course, do that. Or you could blanket the thing in wind turbines and wave power
You might have heard of seaweed – sweet, sweet seaweed – being suggested as a potential carbon sink. Now it could be about to duke it out with wheat and sorghum as the would-be king of plant-based carbon eating. According to SMH.com it goes like this: Grasses such as wheat and
Yorkshire, not content with dominating the world of terriers and puddings, is now out to take Britain’s crown for most environmentally friendly building. (This picture isn’t it, obviously, it’s just a nice shot of the Yorkshire coast.) The building in question is the Environmental Energy Technology Centre
Imagine installing a lightbulb in your recessed kitchen fixture and not having to replace it until 2025. Imagine that it uses only a fifth the energy of a standard lightbulb, saving you $29 in electric bills a year, and doesn’t contain the mercury that’s in a compact fluorescent
Thar’s gold in them thar slurry, if EnerTech’s example is anything to go by. The renewable energy firm has joined the happy club of those announcing funding this week, getting its hands on $42 million from nine investors, led by Citi’s Sustainable Development Investments unit and Masdar
Not really. Michael Jackson does terror for me every time he walks on TV. I think that started with Thriller. This video is picking up some momentum on the web. It’s of a school teacher giving a lecture on climate change. In his own words: “It makes Al Gore
The F&C Global Climate Opportunities Fund was launched in September to invest in companies positioned to develop leading technologies, products and services aimed at mitigating or adapting to the effects of climate change. Greenbang interviewed the Fund’s Jason Holland – director and head of group communications… GB: Tell
GCube is an independent insurance agency that works in the renewable energy space. The business underwrites contracts worth up to $600m associated with the generation of renewable energy. A spokesman for the company said: “Traditionally the big boys in insurance would underwrite these sorts of renewable projects but because they
Any right-minded would-be meglomaniac has dreams of an army of tiny robots to help him rule the world. But nanotechnology is not just for world domination. No, you can use it to make solar cells even more efficient, according to EE Times, revealing that Professor Zaban of Israel’s Bar-Ilan
Along with the rise of the gadget society goes the annoyance of craptastic battery life and the landfill-bothering that goes along with the replacement cycle. Boston Power has created lithium ion batteries that have a lifecycle three times longer than most and have managed to catch the eye of VCs
Remember when Greenbang told you about the silicon shortage driven by solar panel demand? Sure you do. Yeah, you do. (If you don’t, then you can always read more about it here here, of course.) With necessity being the mother of invention and all that, it looks like the
Mulling how best to frame the news of an exciting acquisition in the biofuel area, Greenbang asked a friend what he knew of algae. “It’s frog food,” and “it’s more intelligent than Jamie Oliver,” were the best he could offer. Moving swiftly along to the meat of acquisition
