London has the worst-quality water in the UK, a survey suggests, with just 12% of respondents giving the city a high-quality rating. Scotland came top of the league with 72% of those polled giving a big thumbs up to their tap water. The survey comes after the UK’s political
Following a post earlier this year which highlighted that black pixels take less power to display than white pixels, some clever folks have taken the logical next step and created their own black-themed version of Google. The thinking runs as follows: white pixels apparently take 74 watts to power, whereas
London-based Better Generation helps businesses or individuals reduce their energy bills, as well as their carbon emissions. Co-founder Toby Hammond explains how: Q. Some of the gadgets on your site look fantastic. What’s the one product you’ve come across that has really blown you away? I really like
CHINA WATCH I have to confess: before I became a Greenbanger in China, I used to eat everything. Everything includes: dog, cat, snake, rabbit, turtle, abalone, shark fins and other things you might never have heard of. Indeed, Chinese people eat everything. If “green” means animal-friendliness, the food business in
Energy Star, which sets guidelines on how eco-friendly electrical goods are, is forcing manufacturers to make computers greener or face losing the right to sell products with the organisation’s famous logo. The scheme’s aim has always been to help consumers quickly identify which products are more energy efficient
1E sells power-saving software that switches off redundant computers. In this interview (which is poorly lit, sorry) Sumir Karayi, CEO of 1E, explains how companies are wasting electricity with their IT equipment. He says Verizon is saving half-a-million dollars a year by managing power consumption properly… He plugs his products
CHINA WATCH A dazzling piece of news was on every Chinese newspaper’s headline today: China’s economy rose by 11.5% in the first half of 2007. And as the economy explodes, all kinds of opportunity arises. A French company sees China’s economic potential in a different angle:
An interesting earth2tech interview with Drew Clark, IBM‘s director of strategy for its Venture Capital Group, highlights what a frenzy there is over some renewable energies. Drew highlights his top 5 most promising start-ups — and also raises concern about a green energy bubble. Q). What are the 5 most
JAPAN WATCH Daiwa Securities is apparently following the Japanese government’s “Cool Biz” light-summer-clothing campaign, a Japanese employee tells Greenbang. The initiative, in its third year, encourages people to wear light clothing in a bid to cut the need for air conditioning. Daiwa is running with the campaign by switching
Graham Hilton certainly thinks so. He’s the managing director for The Energy Crops Company and wrote the following post for Greenbang: Biofuels are not a new phenomenon. The most well-known form, bio-ethanol, has been used in Brazil since 1925, powering flex-fuel cars round the congested streets of Sao Paolo.
EcoGeek spotted this: Claims that the seventh Harry Potter book is the greenest publication ever are bogus, he says: “There’s a couple of reports flying around that HP7 (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows) is the greenest book in history! Well, I just wanted to let everyone know that
Well, 453, 592, 370 kilograms, to be precise. Or a billion pounds, which has a nice ring to it. However you want to weigh it up, it’s a pretty good effort from the tech giant. The company said it has tried to minimize electronic waste going into landfills and
