CHINA WATCH Time has a series of profiles on China’s hottest growth companies, including LDK Solar, which listed on the NYSE in June at $27 a share and has since surged to $45. Chairman and CEO Peng Xiaofeng reckons his company can produce solar-energy wafers at 30% less than
Lysanda, an Essex-based outfit that are developing Eco-log (which Greenbang covered recently), just secured funding to the tune of £1m to continue the product’s development. This from their press release: Eco-Log is an on-board device that gathers information on the emissions, fuel economy and performance data of a moving
CHINA WATCH In the old days, it was invading hordes that was the primary threat to China’s 6,400km Great Wall, which acted as a buffer against the Mongols and other threats over countless centuries. Today, it is the weather that it fears most. Western sections of the Wall
Efegy have launched an interesting new home energy meter, which allows people to track their power consumption in real-time. Of course, meters like this aren’t new, but they’ve done a good job of trying to make this easy: no electricians or tools are required to install it, it
London mayor Ken Livingston plans to spend £10m to cut carbon emissions from the city’s public sector buildings. Among the first buildings to be targeted is Transport for London’s headquarters (although we’d like it if they could just get the tube running first), along with the Met,
Regular visitors to Greenbang may have noticed a new look and feel about it in the past few days. We’ve just switched to a new template that we hope is cleaner and easier to read than before. It should also be a bit faster, as you’re probably just
CHINA WATCH This Cantonese restaurant, probably quite aptly named ‘Unique’, must qualify as one of the greenest restaurants in Beijing, with much use of glass and with all décor coming from recycled construction waste. Combined with a gallery, the small restaurant has a bigger room for the exhibition of modern
Joel Makower, a business writer and consultant, has an interesting post that puts the current surge of “green” marketing interest from firms in context. Back in 1990, there was a surge of environmental interest and a whole bunch of firms jumped on the bandwagon, as Joel describes: At the time,
A new survey in the UK shows that 40% of people admit to leaving a washing machine, dishwasher or electronic appliance on standby every day. And although nearly everyone (93%) says they know they can cut their bills by saving energy, 41% say they’ve not yet done anything about
That’s pretty much the aim of tech firm NDS’s latest offering, which has developed a way to automatically turn a set top box into standby mode when it isn’t in use (it’s a long walk from the sofa to the TV, so few people manage this
Greenbang recently highlighted a couple of new online games, aimed at educating people about energy and so on. Well, it turns out that one of them – ElectroCity, from New Zealand’s Genesis Energy (pictured here) – is rated by Greenpeace as that country’s worst polluter, as one TreeHugger has quickly
Design Can Change is a new site aimed at, well, designers. It sets out the climate change challenges and then a list of ways that designers can become more sustainable, including a sustainability pledge. And for designers or non-designers, it’s a great example of fantastic site design. Here’s
