It appears you can have too much of a thing, as Greenbang can all too willingly attest. But we’re not talking chip butties here, it’s all about carbon: apparently, offsetting-hungry companies have eaten up all of the UK’s supplies. The Observer tells it like this: Britain is
It is a great disappointment to Greenbang that her B at GCSE for science didn’t allow her to impact the scientific landscape. Thankfully, other bees are already making a difference. Let Greenbang explain: a group of smart cookies at a company called Tekion have worked out how to use
Residents of New York are being targeted by the Sanitation Department’s bureau of waste prevention for not recycling enough of their waste. More extreme measures are gradually being introduced, including supplying, and enforcing the use of, clear plastic rubbish bags to make for easier routine inspection. A few buildings
Canada has been hit by a freak snowstorm, leading to some of the major highways and airports being closed. Is this down to climate change? The Winnipeg Sun reports: Environment Canada warned yesterday that the “hit and run” storm could drop up about 30 centimetres of snow in Ontario and
Greenbang is off to do a whip round and put in a few calls to assorted relatives, prompted by discussions over at Financial Times. Apparently, the esteemed organ says that investment in green energy reached $74bn last year and is a good bet for smaller investors. Nick Pople of Ludgate
An interesting stat, (and less face it, stats don’t get much more interesting than this), courtesy of Newsweek: ten per of VC money going into China is spent on green tech, third behind IT and communications. Wow. Newsweek sums up the environmental hero-environmental villain question nicely here: If the
It looks like it’s going to be a very merry Christmas – a very merry Christmas for one start-up, after the lucky devils landed themselves a not-to-be-sniffed-at £300,000. Why, that’s almost enough to buy you a one bedroom flat in London! The name is Nanoporous Solutions or n-psl
Greenbang couldn’t let the day go by without touching on the environmental hair-pulling-out-fest that it Bali which has served to generate more in the way of press attention than confidence about a green future. Greenbang will summarise. Two weeks of screaming and toys exiting prams at light speed have
It’s lovely weather over in San Francisco today, but there have been few opportunities to go out and enjoy the sun. This week has been packed with interviews, starting with a bulk-load of Ciscoitus, and moving onto some greener technology and venture capitalist firms. Today it’s one of
What do you do when you’ve run out of oil? Turn to algae of course, silly. Oil behemoth Shell is doing exactly that according to The Times. The idea is, apparently, to turn the pond muck into biofuel. Shell… said that algae was potentially a promising source of biofuel
There’s something deeply exciting about the job ‘chief scientist’. The government has one, don’t you know. Presumably taking time off from grafting mouse heads onto baked bean cans and turning lead into gold, the UK government’s chief scientist to be, Prof John Beddington, had this to say
Good news – apparently you can make something from thin air. No, Greenbang is not advocating stealing or suggesting magic is real. Apparently, according to Sandia National Laboratories: Using concentrated solar energy to reverse combustion, a research team from Sandia National Laboratories is building a prototype device intended to chemically ‘reenergize’
