A few weeks ago, Greenbang praised the junk-sharing website Freecycle – where you sign up to emails that advertise who’s throwing out stuff you may want to claim for free. Greenbang finds there’s a lot of junk out there – wigs and false teeth are not its bag, but we’
If you’re a hairy Greenbang reader (male or female – there are still bearded ladies out there), check out these recycled razors. The handles are made from 100% recycled plastic, and sport pivoting, flexible twin blades with a lubricating strip. We at Greenbang don’t think that is recycled. It’
CHINA WATCH For anyone who thinks China lags far behind the rest of the world when it comes to environmental issues, think again. A new law is being passed that effectively aims to deny finance to those firms who’re not willing to clean up their act. Under the law,
…fridges, cars, tumble driers, and so on–topten.info has them all. This great little site helps people figure out which consumer products are the most energy efficient ones around. For example, you can find out that the Honda Civic IMA gets a top eco rating, sipping just 4.6
CHINA WATCH A recent NBC news podcast reveals that Californians are embracing an online means of co-ordinating car sharing. Each shared car keeps a number of other vehicles off the road, thus cutting both congestion and pollution. As it happens, there are also car-pool websites in China: Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen,
Almost half (47%) of the UK’s large organisations see carbon trading as a confusing initiative that lacks any real value in pursuing carbon emission reductions. A further 24% of respondents thought that “carbon bargaining” was a poorly conceived idea that diverts attention from the root causes of climate change.
Job recruitment website Monster.com’s most recent poll of workers shows despite increasing concerns about climate change, businesses are still slow to implement simple, environmentally-friendly measures. According to the poll, companies in Denmark, Italy, France and Germany are the least likely to introduce any green initiatives, with 47% of
Greenbang recently rocked up to a dinner at the Irish Embassy to meet a few people from the sustainability industry in, yes you guessed it, Ireland. The UK’s Lord Turner, who worked with Sir Nigel Stern on his report – the Economics of Climate Change – gave an after-dinner speech. He
Greenbang been wondering about this recent announcement about the construction in the US of what is supposed to be the world’s largest solar plant. It will, when complete, produce some 80-megawatts of power, enough for 21,000 homes. However, achieving this will require about 260 hectares — or about 2.
Tip of the hat to EcoGeek for the link.
CHINA WATCH Recently, my mum has been moaning a lot, because the price of vegetables, pork and egg have never been so high. Everyday she complains about how much money she has to spend on meals, while the price of pork, especially, has been rocketing upwards. What she doesn’t
While it is too early to say how much this weekend’s marathon Live Earth concert achieved, in terms of awareness around climate change, it has had at least one unintended consequence. The volume of critical comment from the world’s media — examples here from ABC News, the Guardian newspaper,
