Feel cheated by bottled water? Or just damn-right guilty for all the air miles it consumes? Well check out this tap filter that, er, filters water. Yeah okay, it’s a water filter. Made by Zip, the HydroTap can give you instant filtered chilled and boiling water, from the same
CHINA WATCH Wu Ping, a section chief at the Ministry of Science and Technology, said the government had spent 800 million yuan ($106 million) on research on the vehicles powered by fuel cells, electricity and fixed power and had already made great progress. As Greenbang published two weeks ago: 50
Tut tut British government. This from the Guardian. Dear oh dear me. “Government officials have secretly briefed ministers that Britain has no hope of getting remotely near the new European Union renewable energy target that Tony Blair signed up to in the spring – and have suggested that they find ways
The Guardian has a fascinating set of before/after images, showing the stark environmental of impact of mankind of the planet. See them all here. A selection of spectacular satellite images, featured in Earth from Space, published by the Guardian and A&C Black, clearly shows man’s devastating
British energy firms have to prove that at least 6.7% of the power they sold last year was sourced from clean energy or else face fines, according to regulator Ofgem. It’s all part of the government’s Renewables Obligation scheme, which ratchets up the level every year until
Printed electronics specialist Plextronics claims its broken the world record for the conversion of solar light to power efficiency with its new organic photovoltaic technology. Its 5.4% efficiency is obviously great, but shows the tremendous scope for potential gains in the field. The really good news about gains like
A week-long climate change demonstration at London’s Heathrow airport has kicked off earlier than planned, according to the BBC. The protest is aimed at highlighting the aviation industry’s role in climate change (as described below)–to be honest, Greenbang wouldn’t mind permanently boycotting Heathrow for its appalling
In a big Linux conference recently, tech firms announced a bunch of projects aimed at making the open source operating system a little bit nicer to the environment. Most of it focuses on energy efficiency, with news from IBM (launching a Big Green Linux Initiative), HP (data centre stuff) and
Electronics giant Sony improved the energy efficiency in 9 out of 10 of its products last year (and ignored the 10th one, we presume), according to its latest CSR report. This story at GreenBiz has the details: That includes all of its major television models sold in Japan, which earned
It’s hard not to notice the fact that there appears to be a bit of a boom going on when it comes to electric cars, bikes and so on. (Even though Jeremy Clarkson seems to hate some of them.) Much of it has come from new or niche players,
Although everyone’s tired of hearing about her, Greenbang’s come under pressure to give a convict a break and publish this. Paris Hilton was given a Ford Escape Hybrid, according Autobloggreen, to stop her driving a Range Rover. But – you can’t really say that any of the big
Apparently the sciencey man who was years ago booted from Big Brother, Jon Tickle, has been on a roadshow with Scottish Power to promote green energy stuff, like, and things like, yer know? The move comes as the company has just launched some new energy tariffs. But right now Greenbang
