The Women’s Environmental Network is looking for a director. The summary is pretty straight-forward, as the job ad shows: Can you provide effective leadership and development, build capacity, encourage campaign development and raise WEN’s profile? Significant senior experience required with strong management, financial and strategic skills; understanding of
We’ve just learnt about a great new product, a “green switch” that lets you turn off all non-essential electrical items in the house with a flick of the switch. Why didn’t we get this earlier? Saying that, it ain’t coming cheap: EcoGeek (whom we need to thank
Or is such an idea even feasible? Well, a new paper suggests that if London is to hit the carbon reduction goals necessary to make a real impact on climate change, it would have to ban all cars. Even electric ones. Instead, there would just be more buses and cabs,
Greenbang thinks this chap over here is up to some good. Not just because he’s jogging, but because he seems to be acting the way we’d like a lot more people in government to act: by walking the walk (sorry, rubbish pun). In a recent interview, Will Wynn,
Greenbang has been, well, banging on for some time about the need for clever ways to inform people about how much energy their devices actually consume. Just about no-one, barring some really pale-skinned types who carry calculators in their pockets (real ones, not just a mobile phone one), know how
Michael Shwartz was listed in Property Week’s ‘Top Twenty Green Heroes’ at number seven. The man, who has been involved in traditional construction for years, has personally been plumbing millions into realising his dream: ZEDHomes is working towards creating zero and low (fossil) energy developments (ZEDs). By combining design
It’s not much to look at, but Fujitsu Siemens Computers has unveiled its first “green PC” for consumers. The Green Edition SCALEO PC runs software purposely developed to reduce power consumption and meets the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s stringent Energy Star 4.0 guidelines for energy efficiency.
And here’s another note on the Driving Sustainability Conference in Iceland next week: Renewable energy for vehicles and sustainable solutions for transport are the focus of Driving Sustainability ‘07 Conference (www.driving.is) held in Reykjavik on September 17-18. Iceland is a global leader in renewable energy with 72%
Greenbang has always wanted to go to Iceland as it’s apparently got some very cool sustainability projects. So here’s a few random facts about it – because Greenbang wants to pass them on. (These come from the Driving Sustainability Conference, held in Iceland next week.) * 72% of Iceland’s
David Cameron, the leader of the UK’s Conservative Party, is really up against it. As soon as he finds a bit of ground to fight the governing party, Labour, someone pulls it from under his feet. This time, the Independent claims, he is blocking a “backlash” from British voters
Andrew Smith, Business Development Director for Data Centres at Affiniti, assesses the potential solutions to the challenges faced by businesses today in providing efficient Data Centres According to IDC the number of servers in UK Data Centres skyrocketed from six million to 28 million between 1996 and 2006, to accommodate
Some 80 per cent of British folk are distrustful of ethical claims made by companies, a press release from SEE Potential says. Four in five Britons said many companies pretend to be ethical just to sell more products, compared to just over two-thirds in 2005. Almost 80 per cent are
