UK-based Greenbangers who watched Top Gear this weekend will recall gigantic ridiculously right-wing loudmouth Jeremy Clarkson wittering on about how solving the problem of Hydrogen storage would end the world’s fuel problems. People, he had a point, so get your thinking caps on. The problem with Hydrogen is you
Neat Chrimbo green gift idea for RC Racing geeks. A hydrogen fuel canister for your remote control car!!!
This is the Wales Institute for Sustainable Education. It’s an amazing place and somewhere Greenbang is going to visit for a week or two. Sara Turnbull gave a very good talk on the centre – but she didn’t want to speak to Greenbang. Only through the PR department. Boo.
Gary Meades – British Airways’ environmental affairs manager: “Has Terminal 5 been designed now, with the current view on sustainable design, it would have been different. “There are a variety of things that now have could been changed.” Response to a member of the audience at the Green Card event on
By 2012, companies are supposed to recyle 25 per cent of batteries. Right now that figure is just two per cent. BT’s Mark Downling thinks it’s an ambitious target: “To get up to 25 per cent in a matter of years will be a very difficult task. We
So then – memebers of the Green Card group met today to talk about their challenges and work in sustainabilty. It was pretty interesting – although there were a few PR-clanger quotes made by a couple of speakers… So here we go – in bite-sized nuggets…
According to Greenpeace, ‘E-waste’ (audio equipment, mobile phones, computers and gadgets) is the fastest-growing source of municipal waste in the world, contributing up to 5% of waste globally. The average lifespan of computers was six years in 1997. By 2005 it was just two years. Audiophile wrote: As countries are
Residents on the coast of Dakar, the capital city of Senegal, are taking steps to prevent trash-dumping, sandmining and the chopping down of the coast’s trees to reduce the erosion of the coast line. The destructive activities are illegal, but profitable and are damaging marine environment, Allafrica say. “There
Irwandi Yusuf, the Governer of Indonesia is attemting to save his homeland’s forests by selling the carbon they contain, Associated Press say. Indonesia is one of several tropical countries, including Brazil, pushing proposals at the ongoing U.N. climate talks in Bali that offer up their forests as stocks
Britain looks set to fall short of its target to cut carbon dioxide emissions by 20 percent in the next two years (from levels in 1990), according to Hilary Benn, Environment Secretary. Reuters report: Giving evidence to parliament’s all-party Environment Audit Committee, Benn said the actual figure in 2010
Drinks company Coca-Cola is updating its glass bottle… again. It has reduced the weight of its glass ‘contour’ bottles by 20% its latest eco-friendly move. The change will affect Coca-Cola, Diet Coke and Coke Zero glass bottles, taking their weights down from 263g to 210g. The company has estimated it
This is pretty sobering… The impact of climate change and urban development could more than triple the number of people around the world exposed to coastal flooding by 2070, a report claims. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) says 150 million people could be exposed to a 1
