This just in folks…While companies say they want the green thing to happen, many see costs of IT change (such as buying more energy-efficient equipment) as too expensive, a study of IT managers found. Findings from the Neoware survey were: 98 per cent of respondents thought that the IT
Here’s a shot of a solar-and-wind-powered mobile phone mast put up in Namibia. It was developed at Motorola’s Innovation Centre in Swindon, UK. Apparently it is not just developing markets where Motorola predicts a market for these. Remote locations in the developed world face the same problems, where
Video conferencing company Codian has done its sums (obviously plugging video conferencing instead of plane travel for meetings)… Regular weekly, and often daily meetings with participants from multiple international offices meant that Permira’s business driver for high-definition video conferencing from Codian was clear from the start: it needed a
Okay, so it’s probably me not looking out for it, but I’d really not heard much about Live Earth – yet another big global rock gig in the style of Live 8 to raise awareness for something – this time, the very Earth it is hosted on. Turns out Metallica,
During China’s 11th five-year plan (2006 – 2010), it will invest a total of 1.4 trillion RMB ($175 billion) in environmental protection, focusing on the fields of water pollution, air pollution, solid wastes and ecological systems and nuclear safety, according to China Water Web. This comes at a time
While the US looks to ethanol to solve the energy crisis, China has a more ambitious goal by trying to utilize combustible ice. After nine years of research and 500 million yuan investment, the government announced on June 6th that the combustible ice—the methane gas hydrate on ocean floor
It was a bloody busy day. Met the deadlines and the people and am now back in the office ready for a big old session at the Greenbang. Had a huge journo lunch with Ben Hunt – the editor who gave me my first break at the FT a couple of
Morning Greenbangers Got a big day ahead, a ton of deadlines, a few meetings and no doubt a hundred calls from PRs to juggle. But this just caught my eye… Obviously it suits the company, Adstream, to do this – so let’s watch out for the real motives. The guy
The headline says it all, really, but Canadian officials are aiming at the motor industry… Canada.com takes the glory for this story: “The Ontario government is committing $650 million to help make Canada an innovator in green technologies and it’s time the federal government stepped up with a
Watching the 10 o’clock news tonight (in my dressing gown), a BBC report said China is opening two new coal power stations every week – the equivalent in carbon emission of two-million cars. The report said a Dutch think tank now believes the country could be the biggest polluter in
By Yan Yan Thanks to bus thieves and cellphone updates, I have a small collection of chargers at home. Now they may all become redundant because a new law has been enforced by the Ministry of Information Industry (MII) in China. A report from CRI English says: “…[A]ll cell
Now then – on this theme of money and environment, Alex Lambie, founder of an international climate-change initiative called One Earth, today launched greenhelpline.com It is the sister site of energyhelpline.com, an independent utilities switching site. But this also shows all the green tariffs available. The website can to