Oh dear, after its much hyped Plan A campaign, with green stores and more, it appears Marks & Spencer isn’t doing too well on a new recycling report. The Local Government Association report says that less M&S food packaging (just 60%) can be recycled than any of
Earlier this month the US retailing giant Wal-Mart held a sustainability summit, bringing together its suppliers, partners and a handful of journalists to discuss what a company so big can do to improve its impact on the environment. It’s easy to be sceptical about a firm like that, which
First his election, and now the UK’s green energy goals? Reports indicate that Gordon Brown is being urged to back down from the UK’s pledge to get 20% of its energy from renewable sources by 2020. The Telegraph says this on the matter: The Prime Minister has been
A new study from the WWF shows that residents of Newport and Plymouth have the least impact on the environment, out of 60 mainland UK cities ranked in the report. Nice work. Winchester, meanwhile, is the worst. The report ranks the 60 cities in England, Scotland and Wales by the
Popular Science has a cool photo feature of “Green Goods”–or at least a bunch of cool gizmos with some kind of green angle. One example is the rechargeable battery-powered lawnmower here. It’s hard to say how green that is (although the lawn certainly is), but it’s pretty
Greenbang’s seen some pretty cool energy sensors, but this one is just great. It’s called Wattson and it shows you how much energy your home is using, to make saving that bit easier. And the firm that makes ’em looks like a good bunch of folks too, with
‘Nuff said, really. It’s a great campaign being run in the US by the Pew Campaign for Fuel Efficiency. Over the last two decades, U.S. dependence on foreign oil has nearly doubled, gas prices have climbed more than 55 percent and our nation’s global warming emissions have
PC maker Dell is on the lookout for green design ideas–for a “truly environmentally responsible computing technology product”. Anyone is open to submit their ideas, although it’s targeted at students, with five $10,000 finalist prizes and one $15,000 “people’s vote” finalist, amongst others. Greenbang is
Greenbang just spotted this post highlighting some of the less-known impacts of climate change. Some are surprising, such as the decline in a dairy cows’ productivity once temperatures rise above 25 degrees Celsius. This could cost California alone up to $900m a year, according to the researchers. Maple sugar will
By the firm’s own admission, BT is something of a power hog: it chomps 0.7% of all the power in the UK. One company, nearly 1%. But to its credit, it’s just launched an enormous project that will see up to 25% of its energy being generated
During the 90s, as the tech industry exploded in size, a wide array of new job opportunities emerged that had never been seen before: Java programmers, game testers, platform developers, networking and so on. Now, as the green industry surges in importance, a bunch of hitherto unknown jobs are also
One of the interesting things Greenbang has noticed is how many firms are starting to sell eco goods. The problem the Earth has with us, as humans, is we’re consuming too many reources at a rate the planet cannot cope with. So you’d think that there’d be
