seattle
There’s nothing that induces green guilt like bottled water. You can make the bottle live again by refilling it and taking it to work with you, but it stares back up at you from your desk, whispering perniciously “you still bought me, didn’t you? you think tap water’
austin
So, we’re all like: “yeah, I’m all about plug-in hybrids, you know? It’s so cool, emission-free and that. Saving the plant one car journey at a time, right?” and that’s good and everyone’s happy and we’re all cruising about about in our hybrids and
land
According to a new report from the group, if the construction industry cottoned on to green building and started using “currently available and emerging advanced energy-saving technologies”, it could result in over 1,700 fewer megatons of CO2 emissions by 2030. That’s a lot of megatons. The study also
ibm
Imaging having a shedload of tiny robots to do your bidding. A fabulous idea, is it not? Now the Saudis have an idea to do precisely that, and have enlisted IBM to help them out. Rather than world domination, as tiny robots might be more suited to, Greenbang would argue,
rights
According to those good folks at the Independent water is set to be the next commoditised resource. The paper says: The right to use water will soon follow in the footsteps of carbon emissions and become a commodity, like the right to pollute, that industry will have to pay for,
climate
Wow. You know corporate attitudes have shifted when the big businesses like water companies admit that climate change may have messed with their supplies a bit. It’s like your parents admitting to still having sex: you knew the risk was there, but you never thought they’d actually say
biomass
Greenbang feels a bit like she’s had three cups of coffee and half a cup of sugar: there’s a maelstrom of information whirling about in her brains and she’s not sure how to get it out. That’s what happens if you read government consultation papers for
novera
You know that feeling you get when you can see two people flirting but shying around actually taking the plunge – where you sigh and you think “Just get on with it!”? Well, Greenbang has been getting that feeling recently. 3i Infrastructure has announced, after some feverish whirling from the rumour
solar
A friend of Greenbang’s maintains he can tell the difference between Pepsi and Coke. Not only that, but he can also tell the difference in taste between Pepsi from a can and from a bottle and even what region the Pepsi came from. Mind you, that friend did also
business
Ken Livingstone will have to go a long way to apologise to the world for his part in a series of adverts promoting cheese back in the heady brace and leg warmer wearing 1980s. Back then, he was pushing red leicester, trading on his Red Ken nickname. Now he’s