It’s tough to drive anywhere in London at more than 15 miles per hour unless you ride a motorbike. Public transport is probably youyr best bet. But for anyone who does get around town in four wheels and is drivers looking to improve their fuel consumption, you can now
HP bangs the green drum quite a lot, but Greenbang has heard some good things about it. So we asked the computer company what it actually does in the green space. And there’s a lot. Here’s what they said: HP is committed to reducing its own environmental impact,
CHINA WATCH HSBC is giving product discounts to “eco-friendly” businesses in China. The bank is selling “Green Equipment Financing” in Hong Kong and on the mainland , and claims to “support your investment in eco-friendly equipment, helping you meet regulatory compliance and save operating costs, while contributing to both the environment
By 2020, UK carbon emissions will be 15 per cent below 1990 levels, but nowhere near low enough to meet the government’s 20 per cent goal, says independent research out today. There is also little chance of meeting the renewable electricity goals for 2010 and 2015, says Cambridge Econometrics.
A new service launched by Computacenter is aimed at helping companies cut emissions and bills. Businesses and government organisations will be able to develop more effective environmental policies for the acquisition, operation, re-use and disposal of IT equipment by using a new “Green IT Advisory Service” launched today by IT
Do you reckon it’s possible to get more business by being labelled “carbon neutral?” – Yes, probably. And do you think anyone checks how you do it? No, probably not… But these guys reckon they won more business by having claiming carbon credentials. Couldn’t some of that be down
EcoGeek has pulled out another corker from the interwebby today. FixYa.com is a website to help you prolong the life of your gadgets, as they do tend to live for a short while and then end up being chucked away. It’s really a how-to-fix anything site. Hank at
Gary Shapiro is president and CEO of the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), the U. S. trade association representing the consumer electronics industry and owning and producing the world’s largest consumer technology event, the International Consumer Electronics Show. Greenbang grills him on the industry’s green credentials… GB: Can the
There’s a lot of clean and green media madness going on at the moment, with a frenzy of buyouts occurring. Cleantechblog points out that: The Cleantech Group yesterday acquired “Inside Greentech, an emerging media outlet for the green sector, for an undisclosed amount.” A few weeks ago, Treehugger.com
Imagine if governments start to clock how much waste people create. Or even start to charge people for it. If that sounds a bit too much like a nanny state to you, then check out this… Using microchips in bins, there are talks about whether the government could start charging
Here’s what the Carbon Trust claims – but is it enough to have an impact? If, as it says, it has helped save between 1.2 and 2 million tonnes of carbon in the last year, that’s not a big share of its total 10.8 million over six
Greenbang has interviewed a number of Deloitte’s research analysts. Analysts are sometimes bang on right, but they have been known to duck the odd question and point out the bleeding obvious. This time Deloitte says that an increasing number of TV sets in the world mean that “television’s
