CHINA WATCH The price of food in China is unbearably high at the moment, so making corn into energy is no longer a good idea. What about the leftover stalks from crops? China’s eleventh five-year plan encourages the development of bio-electricity plants to turn stalks into energy. The cost
Greenbang has been, well, banging the drum for some time that going green doesn’t need to wipe out the bottom line. For many organisations, it’s a chance to get a double win: a lower impact on the environment, with a pick up on profits. BusinessWeek has profiled several
New York Times columnist Thomas L Friedman makes a powerful argument in a new article [registration required] about the stark reality of the challenges faced in mitigating climate change. He sums it up from a visit he made to Doha and Dalian–and finds them barely recognisable boom towns that
Brightly coloured drinks maker Ribena, which sells a not insignificant 60 million of its drinks every year, will now use 100% recycled plastics in its bottles. The neat chart on the left, if you had supersonic eyes to see the text that small, explains the lifecycle of one of their
Usually when Greenbang talks about chips, it’s the kind that power a computer. But this time it’s the staple-diet-of-the-UK kind. McCain, the oven chip manufacturer, is installing three, 80-metre wind turbines at its Whittlesey plant. The company claims this will cut its lecky bills by 60 per cent.
CNET Networks UK, Greenbang’s former employer, is recruiting an editor for an online green consumer publication. CNET publishes ZDNet.co.uk and silicon.com. The salary isn’t published, but CNET doesn’t pay too badly, and you’ll probably get a laptop and a mobile phone. It’s
Okay, so there’s some obvious challenges, such as when the sun don’t shine. But beyond that, getting the optimum potential out of solar is something of a black art, as this post highlights. “So the ‘100-watt module’ output, reduced by production tolerance, heat, dust, wiring, AC conversion and
Welcome to the world of green. As it happens, Greenbang gets a mixed bag of things that are being launched under the banner of the green revolution. A very mixed bag. We asked firms to send in some examples of things they’re doing, and here’s a selection of
ExxonMobil isn’t exactly the poster child of sustainable firms–and its old boss didn’t spend much time acting as such. However, he sure knew how to deliver profits to the business–and he’s a pretty pragmatic guy. And now, in his new guise — delivering a new report
VS Let’s get it on. Kyocera has been in a bit of a fight with HP. It sounds a bit like handbags at dawn, but Kyocera has fought HP over some advertising claims it made a while ago. These were over an HP claim that one of its printers
Here’s a job move from a fuel cell company Greenbang hadn’t heard of before. Ceramic Fuel Cells has appointed Mr Jeff Harding as deputy chairman. Mr Harding, aged 61, has extensive experience in the renewable energy sector. From 1995 to 2005 he was Managing Director of Pacific Hydro
Meet Tom Nickson, Toshiba’s senior (ahem) specialist in environmental affairs. Tom joined Toshiba five years ago and currently oversees all product related environmental issues and legislation for the consumer products business across Europe. Within this role he is responsible for the integration of WEEE & RoHS processes, re-design and
