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department of energy
This morning Greenbang stumbled over a press release bearing the excellent title of Department of Energy to Pursue Zero-Net Energy Commercial Buildings. Last time Greenbang looked, buildings don’t move ever so fast, so she’s presuming that it’s not a high speed pursuit and the DoE has a
battery
Here’s an interesting one from the folk over at Cleantech. Apparently, it seems, everyone’s favourite Swedish monolithic furniture flogger and Edmonton riot provoker Ikea is getting out its wallet and spanking a nice round €50 million on clean tech start ups. Presumably it just went into the shop
energy
Like a student house and Ikea, or bananas and custard, or Boris Johnson and a blancmange made of razor blades, some things naturally go together. Today’s Romeo and Juliet are US utility Duke Energy and Catamount Energy Corporation, who were united in a $240 million buy. Duke’s acquisition
energy
The government has gone literally green crazy with its latest renewables plan – 15 percent renewables by 2020. Here’s the highlight of what the government wants to ahead with: * Extending and raising the level of the Renewables Obligation to encourage 30-35% of our electricity to come from renewable sources by
energy
Greenbang’s knowledge of the stock market is a little shaky to say the least. Say ‘pork futures’ and she thinks of scratchings (or, to put it another way ‘fried skin’ or ‘hairy crisps’). Gordon Gecko would not be impressed. While Greenbang might not know much about the FTSE, it
energy
Greenbang has heard bakers saying their years of pastry slinging puts them off actually eating the sweet treats and burger bar workers equally saying their time spent up to their elbows in grease has convinced them that they’d rather chew on their own elbow than knock back a cheeseburger.
energy
Normally when Greenbang gets a warm and fuzzy feeling inside, she knows it’s time to lay off the advocaat cocktails. But today, it’s not advocaat giving her that feeling, it’s a recently closed venture capital fund. The Latin American Ignia fund, which has wrapped up with $20.
biofuels
Whatever you think about Microsoft founder Bill Gates (Greenbang largely thinks how weird it is that one of the world’s richest men should have a voice curiously reminiscent of Kermit the Frog. She also thinks a lot about whether Gates has a wig or not), William H Gates has
canada
Apparently, according to Greenbang’s brekkie connoisseur chums, bacon and maple syrup are an unlikely but beautiful marriage. Like Tia Maria and orange juice or Johnny Cash and Nine Inch Nails. Greenbang is skeptical to say the least. Bacon and maple syrup? You might as well roll stuff a sausage
energy
Greenbang’s never thought of the military as being a particularly flexible bunch. Take Action Man. He’s so inflexible on the question of lower body nudity, he had his pants glued to his groin. And he could bend his knees or his elbows – how inflexible can you get? It
energy
Are you a sheet metal worker, machinist, truck driver? Roofer, insulator and electrician? There’s a whole world of green jobs just waiting for you, according to a new report. No word on if the green world wants everyone else, staring out the window into the gloom of the capital
energy
If you’re an avid reader of the Crown Estate press releases, as Greenbang is, you’ll notice that late last month, Regent Street hosted a Guinness World Record attempt for the largest Sevillanas dance with 456 dancers and 100,00 onlookers. Greenbang is pleased to tell you the attempt
