The trouble with press releases is people never know when to shut up. Some of them seem to go for pages and pages and pages and pages and pages… This one is from the people who brought you, “cook, cook cook, cookability, that’s the beauty of gas”. But, er
This Greenbanger has a problem – she is 30, single and childless, so how come she has more plastic carrier bags than handbags? As a little girl, this Greenbanger’s mum had to feed a family of five and shopped more frequently, but her cupboard never exploded with an endless supply
Greenbang seems to be on a mission to collect information today, so he thought he might as well go the whole hog and try to pull in some job ads. If you have a green job going in your company, or are looking to fill some sort of corporate responsibility
You might have noticed a little button at the top right-hand of the screen that says “research” but when you click on it, there’s not much research there yet. Well that needs to change. So if you want your papers featured in that section – links or downloads – send in
Greenbang is launching a “who’s who” of the green industry. If you work in this space, from any which way you care to approach it (you run a business or work for a company trying to go green), GB wants to profile you and link back to your site.
It was a funny week. On the same day the Times Online and Yahoo! Green (Yahoo’s eco-news section) linked to the blog, Ariadne Capital, Julie Meyer’s Global Investment firm, told clients in its newsletter that it supports Greenbang. You don’t get much better than that. (Thanks chaps.
CHINA WATCH The world’s biggest plastics-recycling plant, capable of recycling 60,000 tons of waste annually, has begun operating in Beijing. This plant is operated by Beijing Incom Resources Recovery Co and costs 300 million yuan ($37.5 million), Li Ping, director of the Beijing municipal industry promotion bureau,
If you thought the last few summers have been warm, the climate boffins reckon you ain’t seen nothing yet. A new model created by the British Met Office forecasts that several of the years after 2009 will be hotter than the sweatiest year on record so far, 1998 (see
Those crafty Welsh may just have made a breakthrough in the solar field, by creating a non-silicon solar cell that sells for about one-fifth of the price of regular solar cells. The Guardian has a fascinating article about the technology, which comes from Cardiff-based G24 Innovations: Their solar cell works
An interesting article in the Register covers a speech from an HP chap talking about how cheaper processing power leads to more demand–which in turn negates the effect of the more efficient technology. [Christian Belady, Hewlett-Packard’s “distinguished technologist”] claims the true culprit to data center energy woes is
Yes, it’s true, cowpats are being used to produce electricity at a processing plant in Israel. The facility consumes some 600 tons of the finest dung in the country, which it converts into methane and uses to power turbines and generate some 2 megawatts of electricity per hour. ITN
We’re already heard about unrest in Mexico thanks to soaring tortilla prices, which in turn is due to increased farm land being used for biofuels. A piece in earth2tech notes that food prices could rise by anything between 40 and 80%, unless crop efficiency is boosted. Joachim von Braun,
