Sainsbury’s may be planning to move to a greener office sometime (see story below), but Marks & Spencer’s eco-machine rolls on. This weekend it launched its first ‘eco’ store, in Bournemouth. After its face-lift, the store will use up to 25% less energy (while switching to renewable energy
Sainsbury’s plans to check out from its Holborn head offices and move to a more eco-friendly spot in King’s Cross, which it reckons will chop carbon emissions by up to 40%. It’s still some time away, sadly, as relocation is only due in 2011, but good news
Welcome to Monday. The weekend’s over, sigh, and now the week looms. In a new Greenbang feature, we’ll highlight some of last week’s most popular stories (of course, the really big story is in this incredible Rugby World Cup, but that’s a story for the pub)
E.ON is busy this week: buying into the US market on the one hand, and launching an energy saving competition on the other hand (maybe it just has big hands). Details as follows — and visit the competition site here. Britain’s budding inventors are invited to enter one of
“It is not too much to expect that our children will enjoy in their homes electrical energy too cheap to meter, will know of great periodic regional famines in the world only as matters of history, will travel effortlessly over the seas and under them and through the air with
Oil giant Shell is being sued by the Dutch public prosecutor for not telling authorities fast enough when it accidentally released a large amount of ethylene oxide into the atmosphere from one of its industrial plants in 2004. The firm allegedly thought that a small amount of the substance had
Ze Germans are coming, into the US market at least. Big utility firm E.ON has taken a $1.4bn bite into the American renewable energy market, reports Reuters. The deal includes a bunch of wind farms and gets it into some 210MW of capacity in the US and Canada,
Nobel chemistry prize winner Paul Crutzen, the chap pictured here on the left, argues in a new article that biofuels may be more harmful to the environment than people imagine. The reason is that apparently these fuels give off a much higher proportion of nitrous oxide (N2O) — a greenhouse gas
Well, not the whole US. But this week the US Environmental Protection Agency kicked off a major campaign to convince Americans to switch their light bulbs to more energy efficient ones. Somewhat weirdly (we think), the campaign is taking the form of a bus tour. It seems to be a
If you’re around the Bay area (in the US) from October 23 to 26, get yourself along to this… The 15th Business Social Responsibility Conference this year has the theme “designing a sustainable future”. Topics covered include: “China’s Rising Influence in Africa: Is there Room for CSR?” · “Are
This is the question Greenbang is grappling with today. And he’s feeling pretty sceptical, truth be told. Of course, no such thing exists today, it’s just an idea. But a bunch of engineering and architecture firms reckon it’s possible. At a basic level, the whole notion is
Silicon Valley, home of countless tech innovations and breakthroughs, looks set to fail on its next big task: hitting its carbon emission reduction goals of 20% below 1990 levels by 2010. The goal was always ambitious, requiring bigger cuts on a shorter time frame than the rest of the region
