£20m for energy-efficient material boffins
The Technology Strategy Board and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council aren’t names imbued with rockstar status – unless
Energy
DoE chases zero energy buildings, $140m savings
This morning Greenbang stumbled over a press release bearing the excellent title of Department of Energy to Pursue Zero-Net Energy
Ikea spends big on clean tech start ups
Here’s an interesting one from the folk over at Cleantech. Apparently, it seems, everyone’s favourite Swedish monolithic furniture
Duke buys wind firm Catamount for $240m
Like a student house and Ikea, or bananas and custard, or Boris Johnson and a blancmange made of razor blades,
UK goes for 15 percent renewables by 2020
The government has gone literally green crazy with its latest renewables plan – 15 percent renewables by 2020. Here’s the
FTSE opens first eco-index
Greenbang’s knowledge of the stock market is a little shaky to say the least. Say ‘pork futures’ and she
Amplio Partners readies new €50m fund
Greenbang has heard bakers saying their years of pastry slinging puts them off actually eating the sweet treats and burger
Ignia fund's social conscience nets it $20 million
Normally when Greenbang gets a warm and fuzzy feeling inside, she knows it’s time to lay off the advocaat
Bill Gates sheds biofuels stake
Whatever you think about Microsoft founder Bill Gates (Greenbang largely thinks how weird it is that one of the world’
Irving Oil switches to tidal energy
Apparently, according to Greenbang’s brekkie connoisseur chums, bacon and maple syrup are an unlikely but beautiful marriage. Like Tia
FTL Solar guns for $50m after VC injection
Greenbang’s never thought of the military as being a particularly flexible bunch. Take Action Man. He’s so inflexible
Roofer, insulator and electrician? Green needs you!
Are you a sheet metal worker, machinist, truck driver? Roofer, insulator and electrician? There’s a whole world of green