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Environment Agency maps hydropower hotspots

Report identifies thousands of potential small-scale hydropower sites in English and Welsh rivers that co ...

Tuesday, March 9,2010

Use the boiler scrappage scheme to buy a Heat Pump uk

How to really take advantage of the boiler scrappage scheme. I’m sure you have heard the latest news of ...

Friday, March 5,2010

Mitsubishi to invest £100m in UK wind turbine research

Mitsubishi Power Systems Europe (MPSE) is investing £100m in offshore wind turbine research in Britain a ...

Monday, March 1,2010

China serious about renewable energy

China plans to build a national renewable energy center to enhance the country's clean energy development ...

Thursday, February 11,2010

Supermarket fridges as polluting as their plastic bags, study claims

The switch to refrigerants that do not damage the ozone layer brought in a generation of chemicals with a ...

Monday, February 1,2010

Outdone by Dubai, Taiwan tower seeks green award

Outdone by an tower extending over 800 meters in Dubai, the world's former tallest building, Taipei 101, ...

Monday, February 1,2010

Methane's Key Role in Global Warming

Carbon dioxide is the gas we most associate with global warming, but methane gas also plays an important ...

Wednesday, January 27,2010

World’s Largest Wind Farm to Be Built in the US

The United States has steadily outsourced record-breaking feats of engineering over the years, or stood b ...

Wednesday, December 16,2009

Building an easy answer to climate change

Buildings last for decades, so increasing their green credentials can have a long-term impact on our ener ...

Monday, November 30,2009

Snake spits out new species of chameleon at scientist's feet

Latest find in natural world was result of reptile coughing up lizard as conservationist studied monkeys ...

Tuesday, November 24,2009

What should I do with old plastic carrier bags?

They are strong and they last 1,000 years. So don't waste energy recycling them – give your old bag a n ...

Monday, November 9,2009

Using the Sahara Sun to Power Europe

A $400 billon (£240 billion) plan to provide Europe with solar power from the Sahara desert moved a step ...

Wednesday, November 4,2009

Global costs of Solar Panels Going Down

When Greg Hare looked into putting solar panels on his ranch-style home in Magnolia, Tex., last year, he ...

Monday, October 19,2009

India challenges the scale of America's commitment

India demanded today that America step up its "measly" efforts to combat global warming – or risk jeopa ...

Wednesday, October 14,2009

The Carbon Capturing Coal Plant

NEW HAVEN, W.Va. — Poking out of the ground near the smokestacks of the Mountaineer power plant here ar ...

Tuesday, September 22,2009

Tips on how to green up your business

Green businesses seem to be popping up all over the place, but are they genuinely ‘green’ or is it a ...

Posted under: Green Business Development

Monday, September 21,2009

World Bank spends billions on coal-fire

The World Bank is spending billions of pounds subsidising new coal-fired power stations in developing cou ...

Friday, September 18,2009

Carbon Trusts Backs Ocean Wave Tech

The Carbon Trust is to provide financial support for two marine energy devices through its Marine Energy ...

Friday, September 18,2009

Google Investing in Low Cost Mirror Solar Tech

The internet search giant is focusing on solar thermal technology in which the sun's energy is used to tu ...

Monday, September 14,2009

Big Oil paying for protesters?

HOUSTON — Hard on the heels of the health care protests, another citizen movement seems to have sprung ...

Friday, August 28,2009

Could Clean Coal Answer our Problems?

Coal has become the ugly sister of power sources, condemned as old-fashioned, ultra-polluting and excessi ...

Tuesday, August 11,2009

Cloud Ships The Science Fiction Solution?

The "cloud ships" are favoured among a series of schemes aimed at altering the climate which have been we ...

Monday, August 10,2009

India looks to the sun for ambitious surge in green power

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will decide whether to approve a National Solar Mission to ease country's p ...

Friday, August 7,2009

Is the River Severn tidal energy program a no go?

A giant tidal energy scheme which the government is counting on to meet ambitious new green energy target ...

Monday, July 27,2009

Wind Farms to Power the UK's Homes

Lord Hunt, the Energy Minister, announced proposals on Wednesday to use offshore wind farms to provide en ...

Friday, July 24,2009

Offshore Wind and Wave to provide up £70bn by 2050

The UK could benefit from 250,000 jobs and up to £70bn in revenue from offshore wind and wave technologi ...

Monday, July 20,2009

Green shoots in an economic downturn

We can’t directly control the economy, which, in many people’s opinions, is currently on a downturn. ...

Posted under: Green Business Development

Friday, July 17,2009

Plans for largest wind farm scrapped

The billionaire energy tycoon T Boone Pickens has scrapped a $10bn (£6.3bn) plan to build the world's la ...

Wednesday, July 8,2009

Afro Solar to Power Europe

Twenty blue chip German companies are pooling their resources with the aim of harnessing solar power in t ...

Wednesday, June 17,2009

New UK Battery Technology

Scientists in the UK are developing advanced new battery technology with an environmentally friendly edge ...

Posted under: Technological Innovation

Monday, June 15,2009

Nuclear-powered passenger aircraft 'to transport millions' says expert

Call for big research programme to help aviation industry convert from fossil fuels to nuclear energy. Th ...

Posted under: Technological Innovation

Monday, June 15,2009

Gadgets ‘killing the planet’, warns energy watchdog

Our modern obsession with iPods, mobile phones and large-screen televisions is causing a surge in ener ...

Posted under: Sell Your Old Mobile

Monday, June 15,2009