With petrol prices edging once again towards the £1 mark, it’s time for the Daily Mail and friends to get all frothy mouthed about how those crazy folk in Whitehall are ruining it for everyone with their taxes and why can’t we pollute all we like without having
Ah, Tallahassee. Famous for, well, being the state capital of Florida (if you can call that famous) and not much else, as far as Greenbang is aware. Still, if the governor of Tallahassee has his way, it could be famous for being a green tech capital. Said governor, by the
Scare stories abound this week as fuel prices rise to astronomical amounts, Saudi’s and Russians get increasingly rich and the average American family considers mortgaging its house to pay for a gas-guzzling automobile. Anyhow, it’s not all bad news. Those clever wind farmers, sowing the seeds of energy
The last time Hydrogen hit Europe in a big way it was when a Zeppelin careered into the ground on tour from Nazi Germany. But (Gut Gott!!), the gas is back. This time powering a fleet of cars that Mazda is selling in Norway. The fleet of vehicles, if successful,
More news out of China: the government is now asking foreign investors to put all their lovely greenbacks into something more, well, green. Foreign investors with a yen to spend their pocket money in China will now be steered towards environmental technology and not the usual pollution generating favourites. And
Just when you think hybrid cars can’t get any cooler, those scientific types step right up and come up with another top idea. Here’s the latest update from the Seattle Post Intelligencer: scientists in Idaho are working on some Toyota Priuses (should the plural be Pri-i?) with batteries
The Greenbuild Expo – a homage to all things green tech in construction – has kicked off in the States, with former president Bill Clinton in attendance (perhaps Al Gore was busy?). The sax-playing intern fan was out to promote the Clinton Foundation’s plan, along with the City of Chicago, to
You know your solar panels, don’t you? You look like the type. I bet you could tell your thin film from your crystalline silicon with your eyes closed and your hands behind your back. Good news for those in the thin film camp. Solar panel maker First Solar has
GPS is not just about saving you the “No, I said left – no, my left, not yours!” hilarity of long-distance driving, there’s also a green angle to it too. Telstra, Australia’s largest telecoms company – think BT but Down Under – says installing GPS in its drivers’ vans has helped
Continuing Greenbang’s car themed week – a great use of technology and recycling in Canada will see one of Ford’s assembly plants running on fumes. Paint fumes. To lesson its environmental footprint the clever Canadian beans are installing a ‘fumes-to-fuel’ system in Oakville, Ontario. The Edmonton Sun has the
Chocolate has long been associated with the sort of mammoth frame that the aptly-named Cool Runnings actor John Candy sported until he was whisked-off to the big sweet store in the sky. Dear old John evidently liked a bar or two, and will no-doubt be pleased to hear that a
Greenbang is blogging from Germany today at the Fujitsu Siemens IT Forum. This is their first zero-watt standby computer screen…
