PolyFuel, a company that makes membranes for fuel cells, says it has made a tiny fuel cell that can give twice the power a laptop needs to run. Check out this pic for size. What that means in English is they’ve made a very small fuel cell (funky battery
You learn something new every day. “According to the World Health Organisation, IAP claims the lives of 1.5 million people a year worldwide, or one person every 20 seconds. Women and children make up the vast majority of these deaths due to their increased exposure in the home.” The
CHINA WATCH It’s Mid-Autumn day, a Chinese traditional festival that celebrates the harvest and family gathering. And it is our Chinese tradition to eat moon cakes, but the over-packaging of the moon cakes seems to bring a lot of waste. After Mid-Autumn Day, people throw away tons of moon
There’s a growing list of companies and tools that promise to help your firm figure out its carbon emissions and chop them down. And now BT has added its name to it. As its announcement reads: BT’s carbon impact assessment enables organisations to accurately calculate the amount of
Sun Microsystems, best known for making large servers that get stuck in corporate basements, has launched an online community site called OpenEco to help firms track and compare energy use. As the site explains: “OpenEco is a new global on-line community that provides free, easy-to-use tools to help participants assess,
US retail giant Wal-Mart has announced a new scheme to measure the greenhouse gases emitted across its supply chain. It will work in partnership with the Carbon Disclosure Project to figure this all out–and the move means that up to 60,000 companies dealing with Wal-Mart could be asked
No stamp duty for carbon neutral homes, extended energy saving allowances for landlords, tax deductions for investments in energy saving machinery… the UK government is famous for its green sticks (taxes on fuels and all kinds of other things), but it also offers a range of incentives to businesses and
For those of you not familiar with the concept, NetJets is kind of like a taxi system for your everyday millionaire. For a modest fee, you can avoid those pesky departure lounges and head off to the beach without having to endure that overweight so-and-so crushing you against the window.
London’s Hyde Park has a new eco-friendly feature: a solar-powered boat–the snazzy-looking 14 metre catamaran pictured here. It looks great, and Greenbang will be sure to mosey on over whenever he’s next in the park. Somewhat oddly, though, the press release makes great play about the boat’
Toyota’s hitting the road to highlight how its hybrid engines can save the world by improving fuel efficiency and reducing emissions—in a big truck. It’s called the “Highway to the future: mobile hybrid experience” national tour (of the US) and they’re planting 50,000 trees to
Greenbang’s inbox has been bulging with an incredible array of ‘green’ products, ranging from the fun (pencil cases made from old car tyres) to the downright dubious (helicopter-based eco-tours). Others are noticing the same trends all over the world, as firms re-brand products or services as eco-offerings. Of course,
By Helen Gough A cyclist’s life in London consists of shortcuts and dodging large vehicles that almost knock you down, which makes us wonder why some cyclists choose to do it in the first place? Do they want to do their bit for the environment or is it just
