The boffins at Sony appear to have come up with a way to power their gadgets with good old sugar (release here, but in Japanese). White or brown, wonders Greenbang? Right now, it appears to require the user to accompany their dinky little MP3 player with a huge fuel cell,
After running into a barrage of criticism over its plans to dump more toxic waste into Lake Michigan (while promoting itself as greener-than-thou), it appears that oil giant BP has backed down. In a press release, the company does its best to sound hard done by: “We will not make
The CIO of Sun Microsystems, a firm famous for making big servers, reckons corporate data centres won’t be necessary by 2015–they’ll be replaced instead by a ‘big black box’ of service providers. “That’s my father’s legacy,” admits Bob Worrall, in an interview with Earth2Tech. In
CHINA WATCH We hate water polluters, but stopping them is tricky. It’s becoming a big political issue in China, though, which is perhaps what is spurring authorities to come up with tougher rules. Accordingly, Beijing plans to raise the tax on environmental pollution in a new draft amendment to
Some areas of Australia are seriously affected by drought. So much so that some farmers have stopped cows grazing on grass and moved them onto grain. Queensland’s Toowomba is one area hit by such problem. But now the government is looking into water recycling: “The federal Member for Groom
This Telegraph article was written about six months ago, but it argues solar power could be cheaper and more available than fossil fuels within five years. You could argue that it’s already cheaper and more available because there’s an unlimited amount of it. But it’s the clever
There’s a ton of water recycling kits available on BritishEco.com For this one – for which you can get a 1300, 3500 or 5000-litre purification tank – you can also pay up to £1,885. Would it work out as cost efficient? Depends on how much you pay for water
Think about it – if you could collect all the water that falls on your house or company building – especially this summer in the UK – and work out a way to purify it, surely that would be a good thing. Well now you can [Greenbang feels like Vic Reeves]…and here’
CHINA WATCH The UK is not alone in its unaccomplished green goal; China also failed to meet its target of cutting pollutant emissions, according to statistics released by the government. No surprise – just look at the sky in Beijing and you would know it. Chinadaily has the statistics in English:
Yeah, it’s a bit off topic but so what. The UK’s eco system has taken a beating this year. The spiralling price of wheat, recent floods and the foot and mouth outbreak have damaged the health of UK agriculture, researchers say. According to Richard Crane at Deloitte, British
Greenbang is good mates with Karen Fraser – the mother of the Ethical Reputation Index. And according to a report on The Green Awards website, 60 per cent of consumers regularly discuss corporate ethics. “In 2006, 49% people said they were ‘quite likely’ or ‘very likely’ to discuss reputation of company
Nice bit of pocket money… A company called Low Carbon Accelerator has made an equity investment of £300,000 in another firm called Turbine Developments. That is for a 23% equity stake in the company with a right of first refusal for further funding rounds. Turbine Developments, a company spun
