It’s odd for the UK Conservative Party to promise tax rises of any kind as they usually advocate tax cuts. But the green agenda really changes all that. According to the Independent, head Tory David Cameron is planning to do just that as he tries to gain some ground
BusinessWeek has a very nice little look at renewable energies this week and says: “In the U.S., the renewable-energy and energy-efficiency industries generated nearly $1 trillion in revenues last year and employed some 8.5 million workers, according to a July, 2007, study by Management Information Services, a Washington,
It seems that Gideon Greenspan‘s carbon offseting map, which we blogged about here, is joined by other similar schemes. Karen from the offsetting directory ourcarbonnation.com (which used to be itwontaffectme.com) is set to go live next week. She says: “Transparency in the offset market is something that
AlwaysOn has just produced its first list of what it reckons are the top 100 private firms in the clean/green tech game. As it says, these are the firms transforming transport, construction, energy, agriculture and more. And the ultimate winner, in its view, is GridPoint — which says it aims
In the rush to deliver electric concept cars (check out the Toyota a couple posts earlier), car-makers are also waking up to the sideline benefits of switching to electric power. By kicking out belts, pumps and other mechanical paraphernalia within engines – such as those that control your power steering, among
There’s a lot of cash sloshing around in clean tech these days — from cash pouring into start-up firms, to establishing players upping their spend on alternative energies and so on. For some, it all brings back fears of a repeat of a dot com-style boom, especially considering all the
Hoo, and in what a way. As the old sticker used to go, “The car in front is a Toyota”. It’s only a concept car, sadly. But it answers the question of what an electric hybrid sports car from Toyota would look like. Nice, in short. It’s called
Greenbang knows John Deere from his childhood days, visiting some friends who lived on farms and staring in wonder at those huge machines with the big tyres chugging about. Well, it seems that the same company is now looking to back a new generation of power: by providing farmers with
For those who missed it, Chevron’s new online game, aimed at highlighting the challenges involved with powering a city in the future, is playable here. It’s not exactly Halo 3, but then it’s got a rather different aim. You run your city in stages, choosing its energy
Every now and then, Greenbang stumbles across something that – to be honest – we’d never even imagined. Did you know, for example, that shipping containers are lined with wood, often from tropical forests? Well, we didn’t, but some bright chaps in the UK have picked up on this and
Sometimes when Greenbang goes home, especially after having been away for a week or two, he has to fight to push the door open–because there’s a huge pile of leaflets and spam mail promoting the local curry house, pizza take out and so on. Pankaj Shah is in
An interesting debate kicks off on Cleantech blog, although it’s short on a full answer (of course, Microsoft thinks it just great). Greenbang runs on a combination of Windows XP and Mac OS. We’ve been scared of Windows Vista for the simple reason that we don’t feel
