Oil company Chevron is taking a new approach to promoting clean energy (and good old fossil-fuelled ones too): an online interactive game in the spirit of SimCity (pictured here). Made in conjunction with the Economist Group, it’s all aimed at educating people about the tough choices that governments have
CHINA WATCH Air is everywhere, but can you imagine it can be used as a new form of energy? Chinese boffins claim to have discovered this new clean energy source – simply by using dry air. “The breakthrough makes it possible to use dry air, instead of electricity, to cool down
That’s what analyst firm Frost & Sullivan reckon, in a new paper. It’s actually not such a big leap, though, as the 2006 market for the US and Canada was already valued at $17.37bn, but it’s still a bid wedge of cash. This from Renewable Energy
Mozambique’s national petroleum company this week unveiled a major $550m biofuels project, with the aim of producing 226 million litres of ethanol and biodiesel within 7 years. Sugar cane and jatropha, a drought-resistant shrub, will be the primary feedstocks for the project. Reuters in Maputo has the dirt: Officials
The chap with the funny eyes pictured here is Jason Elliot, something of a serial entrepreneur in the eco-space. He is the founder of Ethical Jobs (which Greenbang keeps an eye on for interesting job alerts), Ethical Directory, Ethical Guide, Ethical Product Review and Ethical Goodies. And there’s more
A new British gizmo aims to give fleet managers a far more detailed view of how well their truck drivers are, well, driving. Essex-based Lysanda has launched Eco-Log, which it reckons can calculate the true emissions from a vehicle by tapping into its on-board diagnostics system. This is then transmitted
It’s wattwatt, what. Yes, a new site – wattwatt – has launched, aimed at energy-saving enthusiasts and with the intention of sharing ideas about energy saving. From gizmos that bleep at you when your fridge door has been open too long to the relative merits of flash lights that are powered
Although Greenbang can’t stand airports in general (and low-cost airlines in particular), primarily because of the way they manage to strip just about everyone of their dignity, sanity and patience, it turns out they’re something of an opiate to most Brits. Even otherwise sane and normal people can’
Fresh on the heels of the BP scandal in Chicago – where the oil giant simultaneously promoted itself as greener than green, while asking for permission to dump more toxic waste in Lake Michigan – npower is now pulling similar tricks in the UK. The energy firm has applied for (and gotten)
CHINA WATCH Life’s just gotten a bit tougher for managers in China’s state-owned enterprises (SOEs). They not only have to deliver profits, but also need to make the company more environmental-friendly–or risk losing out on promotion opportunities. An accountability system will be implemented for the managers of
CHINA WATCH The sea level along the coast of South China’s Guangdong Province is forecast to rise by at least 30 cm by 2050, a weather report released by Guangdong provincial weather authority has said (Chinese language link). It means some 1,153 sq km of coastal land in
The Guardian has a fascinating article about a possible food crisis looming, as a result of food crops being turned over to biofuels. There really is a boom in the industry, it notes for example that 20% of America’s maize crop last year went to ethanol–which managed to
