Our pals at the Matter Network sent us this today: Living up to its marketing line of “A Century of Firsts,” American Electric Power will pay the largest fine to the U.S. EPA in history. The company will implement changes to reduce emissions of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide
Googlesightseeing’s motto is ‘see the world without travelling’. It doesn’t sound like much fun, but there is an an eco-angle to it. It looks like it’s not much more than Google’s Maps site, but someone has gone to the trouble of pulling out some of the
One of the challenges with energy management is just getting a sense of how much energy things actually consume. How much does your TV cost you, for example? The same principle affects IT bosses, when they try to remind workers to power down their PCs at nights and so on.
Google, seeking new ways to help you find things, has launched a tool to help people plan their public transport journeys. But only in the US and Japan, so far. It’s called Google Transit. Integrated into Google Maps, it makes it easy to figure out your journey from A
Popular Science recently announced its 6th annual “Brilliant Ten” list, which profiles ‘young geniuses who are shaping the future of science’. One of those is Greg Asner, pictured left, who has been working on new ways to digitally map the environment and has led breakthrough studies on the Hawaiian rainforest.
CHINA WATCH We in China used to be proud of our Three Gorges Dam, the largest hydroelectric river dam in the world. With its construction began in 1994 and structural work finished on 2006, this project is highly controversial at the very beginning. But for probably the first time the
Protestors from the organisation Greenpeace have seized control of a power station in Kent. Fifty people entered the Kingsnorth plant early this morning and chained themselves to machinery to stop the station working. The Guardian has this: Robin Oakley, a senior energy campaigner at Greenpeace, said the protest posed no
Carbon Trust, which invests in low-carbon technologies, recently launched a new £5m R&D initiative to try make solar technology more cost-effective. As the firm explains: The programme will be delivered by the Carbon Trust’s preferred partners – the University of Cambridge and The Technology Partnership (TTP) – with the
Earth2tech has a great story profiling what it reckons are the top 10 women in the clean tech industry. Top of the list is one Nancy Floyd, the founder and MD of Nth Power, a venture capital firm. When Nancy Floyd started Nth Power in 1993, women were even less
Newsweek has a great story about the job boom in the green market. Of course, it’s hard to define exactly what that market is, but it tracks the surge of new opportunities for renewable-energy technologies and earth-friendly products. Greenbangers watching our regular job updates will know know all about
We’ve been talking a lot about HSBC’s climate change index, but now Merrill Lynch is getting in on the act. It has launched not one, but two biofuel indices. The pair are “designed to offer investors exposure to the fast-growing biofuels market with greater liquidity, transparency and efficiency
“There’s a huge difference between what people say and what they do. Look at all the websites where you can take a flight and offset your carbon. Only about 1% do it. Likewise this goes for most politicians who say they will cut emissions dramatically. Blair said in 1997
