IBM and BT are apparently working with a company called Smartbunker to build high-performance data centres powered entirely by renewable energy. Now when anyone says they are carbon neutral or use zero carbon, your journalist alarm bells should start to ring. You have to be careful how they measure it.
Next-generation newspapers, organic photovoltaics (cool light) and nano-technololgy are to be researched an developed at a new science facility up in’t north of UK [oo K]. The plastic electronics sanctury is being headed up by Cenamps and will be based in County Durham.
I know, I know, it’s cheesy PR all over. But it’s also a bit useful. The Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) is urging householders to rethink the way they approach waste if we’re to avoid becoming lost to landfill. The UK sends more rubbish to landfill than
By Yan Yan in Beijing Carbon trading, whether you like it or not, is now happening all over the world. The Kyoto Treaty, signed by many major countries of the world in 1997, set limits on the amount of greenhouse gases countries can emit. But it also means you can
Toronto is moving forward with a project to further increase the efficiency of hybrid cars. A123 Systems is behind the nifty little widget and in this photo you can see CEO David Vieau meeting US president George Bush to show off his gizmo. “A consortium of Toronto fleet owners, including
I counted no fewer than seven full-page adverts from companies boasting of their environmental business in this week’s print edition of the Economist. Petrol firms Total and Exxon Mobil, nuclear energy company Areva, photographic giant Canon, energy firm Enel, the Carbon Trust and aviation company EasyJet were all plastered
Proposals for a massive hydroelectric power plant in Brazil are causing arguments in the region because of the damaging effect it would have on diverse fish stocks. The area targeted for the plant, Rondonia, is one that has already been deforested. According to the New York Times, officials are keen
As Greenbang reported last week, the fast-changing energy industry is creating a boom in eco-power jobs. The Sunday Times had a feature on this yesterday, written by Jonathan Leake (but we got there first 😉 ) “Phil Williams, an executive director of RPS, an international engineering consultancy that employs 4,000 people,
Greenbang probably won’t cover a lot of cheese stories – but this one takes the biscuit (get it?). Sorry. Patrick Berridge’s cheese won a gold prize at the World Cheese Awards last month – partly because of its production method. They produce their own electricity by pumping anything left over
Current TV, Al Gore’s web TV channel, has a good menu of self-made films. This one explains carbon offsetting, which there are a lot of questions about. That’s primarily because it doesn’t really solve the problem of putting too much CO2 into the air, yet some firms
Shell is in trouble with the Green Party again. This on the party’s website: GREEN MEP and ‘politician of the year’ Caroline Lucas has hit out at the main sponsor of a leading climate change conference – Shell – for undermining efforts to tackle the problem, during a speech at the
The Green Party in Ireland is very much like that of the one in the UK. For a long time no one listened. But that appears to be changing – in both countries, and I’d suspect more. Colum Kenny writes in the Irish Independent today the party could face trouble
