The Carbon Trust, a government-funded organisation tasked to cut greenhouse gasses, is under scrutiny at the moment. It’s come under quite a lot of criticism for its PR strategy. The Telegraph had an article about this last August… Greenbang certainly sees a high number of press releases coming from
Methane is a much bigger greenhouse gas than carbon. This article on the Environmental News Network explains how scientists have found that the sea has massive capacity to soak up methane. If you were to put more methane into the ocean, that would perhaps provide a bit more time to
There’s not much more to say than that really. It comes from a report issued by the Environmental News Network. “Production of photovoltaics (PV) jumped to 3,800 megawatts worldwide in 2007, up an estimated 50 percent over 2006,” says Jonathan G. Dorn, Staff Researcher at the Earth Policy
Not a huge story, but it is only Jan 2nd… An Indian organisation is to give out awards for innovation in the solar space. India’s Centre for Innovation, Incubation and Entrepreneurship (CIIE) is promoting the awards for its Solar Innovation Programme. The Business-Standard quotes a spokesman: “The Solar Innovation
Here’s a prediction then… 1. Larger rounds of VC funding for clean-tech projects 2. An increase in green legislation, or at the very least, a move towards it (it takes years to pass legal bills in the UK) 3. Someone will find a way to store hyrdrogen so it
We’re back to it at Greenbang Towers today. It was nice to wind down for a few days over Christmas and do nothing. Jumperhead (in Oz) will be joining us again next week, but Williamson and I are back today looking at the grim weather outside. Anyway, Happy New
Greenbang is chilling out on the sofa this Christmas Eve and just wants to thank EVERYONE who has read and/or helped the blog this year. A massive Merry Christmas to you all, and here’s to a top 2008.
Low Carbon Accelerator, which is a company although the name doesn’t really indicate that, has invested a further £900,000 in ResponsiveLoad Limited. RLtec develops grid-management technology to increase the energy efficiency of the whole electricity supply chain. Products fitted with RLtec’s Controller can detect the state of
Word reaches Greenbang of new methods pubs are using to making drinking guilt-free. And no, it’s not by banning you from texting your ex after you’ve had a skinful – the latest trend in pub is deguilting is going carbon neutral. One such establishment, the Agincourt Hotel in Sydney,
Given a chance to splicing some genes, Greenbang would like to mix up nature to produce a gigantic kickass penguin, which would act as her henchman, butler and bodyguard. Luckily Greenbang has never been given the chance. Some far more sensible types have been at working with the genetic mixing
If Santa’s brought you shiny new a mobile phone this Christmas, why not have fun this holiday season by studying your own greenhouse gas emissions and generally engendering all sort of consumer guilt? Not only can you feel bad for a bit, mobile software developed by the EC which
This one’s a bit old, but is essentially what you’ll get if you can part with $100,000. They’ve apparently got some problems with the transmission in this though. So let’s hope it’s all sorted by April next year…
