Our anonymous contributor, from a large global company, has sent us his first rant for the big Greenbang… Is reducing energy consumption enough for the IT industry? When figures are banded around as to how much IT companies are going to reduce energy emissions it is tempting to see the
Meet the air car – powered by compressed, yes you guessed it sir, air. It was designed by F1 engineer Guy Nègre and will be built by the Indian giant of a manufacturer Tata Motors. It has a range of 125 miles before it needs refilling, so to speak, and can
Yahoo! has set up its own green portal. Not bad, me thinks. It just shows the green and clean tech industry is really kicking off. But is it a bubble? I’ve covered technology for a number of years. It makes a lot of people in the IT world a
What do we think then? Any good? I don’t know about the G-Wiz. It’s perfect for city driving but not for a crash. I’m going to ask for a test drive. Watch this space…
Nick Lerner is a PR. He wanted to write something for the website. So why not, I thought – give the guy a chance. Bear in mind there is some PR in this (where isn’t there these days!), but he’s made a good point. This piece is about making
The world’s richest nations have come to an agreement on climate change. But it’s flaky and lacks any real commitment, the Melbourne Times reports: G8 leaders agreed to seek “substantial” cuts in global emissions and “seriously consider” cutting climate-changing gases by at least half by 2050, and invited
The UK government has set up a taskforce led by Manchester City Council to combat the amount of pollution and CO2 pumped out by computers. The Guardian has this report: “Growing evidence suggests “cyber warming” from computers and IT is as big a polluter as the airline industry, responsible annually
It’s amazing what you get sent as a journalist. If you ask for information on apples, someone will send you their pitches on bananas. This is a bit of a cheeky blag in that someone’s trying to rent their holiday cottage out using the green angle. Basically, there’
So a few weeks ago I was in Montana, US. I met some cowboys, who were branding cattle on their ranch. Afterwards we sat down to eat some steak and after talking cows for about an hour, moved onto the topic of biofuels. “There’s no greater threat to the
Green jobs are on the increase, says shock report from career recruitment firm: The growing issue of Global Climate Change has created a whole new job market that is set for staggering further growth over the next five years. Research carried out by Sustainability Recruitment Consultancy Acre Resources shows there
Linford Christie is fronting this campaign for green couriers. The company, POD’s operate with a fleet of environmentally friendly vans (the company claims). Their vans run on either electricity, LPG or a mix of low-sulphur diesel and Biodiesel. Here’s the release: — PODs is the UK’s first ‘green’
UK bosses are failing to encourage staff to cycle to work as bike theft rates soar high, office space rental company MWB claims. Despite the plethora of promises from companies across the UK to ‘go green’, very few have implemented measures that encourage green travel to work, according to new
