Greenbang loves EcoGeek. The Montana boys have pulled out another corker from the world wide web – this time, it’s solar-powered boats. The sails are actaully photovaltaic cells. The Solar Sailor is a ferry that transports people around Sydney harbor using about half has much fuel as it would need
Feel like saving London’s wildlife from a bunch of marauding athletics fans? Here’s the job for you: We’re looking for an organised person with a conservation background who can network effectively with a wide range of individuals and organisations. You will be capable of developing a range
CHINA WATCH Honestly, Greenbang has never seen a dryer in China. I have lived in cities and rural areas in China, and always hang up my laundry in a clothesline and wait them to dry under the sun, so do the people around me. For us, buying a machine to
The WWF (World Wildlife Fund not the wresting people) have launched some new T-shirts to bring awareness to global warming. They are £15.99. You could buy one, or recycle an old one to save the carbon but keep the thought there 😉 Depends on what your statement is… The WWF
That’s what the survey reports anyway – nearly 3,000 UK motorists said although they want to cut their carbon footprint, they’ve not really any plans to do it. Price is the main barrier, British Car Auctions says… When asked what steps they might take to reduce their carbon
PepsiCo, makers of all the fine goods pictured on the left here, are looking for an environmental life cycle sustainability manager (say that twice fast without taking a breath). But it sounds great, as the ad explains: In a nutshell, your role will involve reducing our carbon footprint and making
“We thought we’d be at that threshold within about a decade. We thought we had that much time. But the new data indicates that in about mid-2005 we crossed that threshold. What the report establishes is that the amount of greenhouse gas in the atmosphere is already above the
The world’s steel industry will work together to collect pollution data, according to the International Iron and Steel Institute. According to its press release, this involves: the collection and reporting of carbon dioxide emissions data by steel plants in all the major steel producing countries. Establishment of the data
Tech vendor Sun Microsystems has released its 2007 corporate social responsibility (CSR) report (and PDF here), which highlights the actions it’s taking. It plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 20% by 2012, from its US operations–it calculates that it emits some 230,000+ metric tons of the
A coalition of environmental agencies, firms and MPs have written an open letter to environment secretary Hilary Benn and business and environment secretary John Hutton. The letter makes the case for standardised carbon reporting, as the Guardian reports: “Current reporting levels are still too low, and what is disclosed is
The big beasty analyst Gartner says data centres account for 23 per cent of global ICT CO2 emissions. Its estimate follows its finding in April 2007 that the ICT industry produces 2 per cent of global CO2 emissions, placing it on a par with the aviation industry. This from the
