Failure to innovate will be disasterous for business, says Chris Bowden, CEO, of energy price and risk management Utilyx… “It is now widely accepted among the scientific, political and business community that global warming is a real problem with potentially devastating consequences. The problem is not and should not be
A specialist South African energy company, Sasol, is claiming to have launched the world’s first project that converts greenhouse gas nitrous oxide into harmless individual gases nitrogen and oxygen. The company expects to remove the equivalent of a million tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere through the project
John Watkins, from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, is trying to look at the state of the UK’s countryside. He’s teamed up with SAS, a company that is clever at interpretting data, and ESRI, a mapping software company ESRI to do this. Greenbang asked him what it’
If you hadn’t heard, the UK is having a hard time from a nasty bout of flooding in parts of this fair land. Greenbang thinks that disaster-recovery planning (i.e. being able to keep going as a business when the sh*t hits the fan), is all part of
Greenbang went to visit IBM yesterday for a chat and a cup of tea. This is what the big computer company said: 1. The total cost of operating IT equipment is roughly 50 per cent of the capital procurement budget. That means over the life of the product, a company
CHINA WATCH Beijing has promised to create a green Olympic Games next year. Work has begun on the first of 33 wind generators that will eventually supply clean energy to Beijing and next year’s Olympic Games, according to ChinaDaily. The wind farm will sit on the outskirts of Beijing
This from Pensions and Investments Online – Greenbang’s daily must read publication… Venture capital firms invested a total of $1.3 billion in clean technology companies during the year ended March 31, according to a study released today by Topline Strategy Group, a high-tech consulting and business development group. The
IBM’s got more of the same going on. Greenbang’s going to meet IBM today, so we’ll see what else is happening. Again from those CNet people: …IBM is working “in earnest” with GridPoint, a company that builds a system for generating renewable energy and storing it at
Where there be treasure, them Dow Jones journos be lurkin about. Water Tech Online picked this little baby up today… “Clean technologies” in water treatment, biofuels and other markets are among the topics addressed by Clean Technology Investor, a new e-newsletter and Web site product launched July 9 by Dow
Told you again…(finger wags). This on News.com, which is owned by the previous employer of Greenbang’s chief blogger. Sensicore, which builds sensors and software for monitoring municipal water quality, is hoping that investors have a big thirst for clean tech ventures. The Ann Arbor, Mich.-based company
Greenbang’s crystal ball told you this was going to happen. And looky here, it is: DOTCOM entrepreneurs are beating a path to the clean technology sector as cashed-up super funds open the spigot for ventures targeting green concerns ranging from energy to drought and global warming. Venture capitalists who
Greenbang met the printer manufacturer Ricoh today for a pint and a burger – ooh and what a burger it was. They’re certainly a nice bunch of people, but any printer manufacturer has a tough job trying to convince the world it is doing the right thing by the environment,
