This week’s edition of The Economist does an interesting hatchet job on ethanol–debunking it as a “green” fuel, and outlining the current rush to discover a real home-grown petroleum alternative. The issue with ethanol is primarily chemical. It produces just one-third of the energy that petrol does, and
Greenbang’s advice would be, don’t. The government is slow – it’s known about climate change for decades – and believes enough is already being done. Cutting carbon and all things green, right down to eating properly, is your own responsibility and Greenbang is afraid you’re going to be
No? Greenbang hates stupid questions too. But IBM has gone to town on this one. As well as releasing some interesting stats about how IT folk are ignoring energy concerns, they’ve only gone and taken a step into the feel-good world of comparing companies to animals. Greenbang wonders what
Remember D-Link? Well they’ve been around for yonks and now are selling something called green ethernet desktop switches. “Aimed at home users and small businesses, the switches can deliver significant energy savings of up to 44% of the power typically used by a 5-port Gigabit switch*, helping to reduce
More data centre news… but this time there’s help on the way. HP (not the sauce company pictured as a clever-clogs Greenbanger joked) has launched new services to help customers design a next-generation data centre. HP sauce is rather wonderful with a big fat bacon sandwich. Sorry, it must
Data centres are a bit like Paris Hilton – they’re getting all the headlines these days. But check out this – a data centre that runs on solar power. Our pal Jason, over at Ethical Jobs (see job section), reckons they’re a good bet. Ecological Hosting says it’s an
An Economist Intelligence Unit report shows IT heads are ignoring energy efficiency problems. Maybe it’s because Halo 3 has just come out. The key points to note are: · Over a third of IT executives (42 per cent) say their firm does not monitor its IT-related energy spending and a
Woooh – someone’s got a brand new index, and they’re not afraid to show it off. But what are they gonna do with it, Batman? The HSBC Global Climate Change Benchmark Index has been designed to reflect and track the stock market performance of key companies that are best
Green Rocket PR (Big up to ya boys) sent us info of a London event on climate change. If you’ve got an event, tell us about it and we’ll publish it. This one is LONDON AWARE 08 – an environmental expo taking place at the city’s Barbican Centre
Greenbang saw this the other day: “The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) predicted that average global temperatures could increase by as much as 6.4C if carbon emissions continue to rise – much higher than previously thought.” Keep it in mind when the oil companies claim they’re doing their
Ooh – look at the angry man. Alex Rabbetts is MD of Migration Solutions. He sat down to write something for Greenbang, which we thought was quite cool, even if it is a bit angry and about erm, data centres. So here it is – Get ready for: Environmental altruism or just
Premier Farnell, a distributor of electronic components, is to award some lucky sausage $100,000 if they can win the ‘Live Edge’ – Electronic Design for the Global Environment competition. “Electronics engineers, students and academics around the world are invited to submit designs for an innovative product that utilises electronic components
