No doubt some people who read the recent news of bladeless wind turbines will have been scrambling for their calendars to check the timing of the announcement. Yes, it was the third of April. No fools here. Displacement of charged water particles, pushed directly by the wind is the M.O. here, and it’s pretty exciting [...]
An article in The Times of India seems an apt place to start for a piece taking a tour of the latest in developments in green technologies and policies among the movers and shakers beyond the UK. The piece in question reports on the news that global investment in clean energy rose to $250billion last [...]
We recently reported tentatively optimistic signs from the early days of the Green Deal – but now fans of the scheme can start to feel some real excitement. The most recent figures released showed a quite staggering 332 per cent increase in assessments completed in one calendar month – to 9,268. Since then, it can [...]
The Government understandably went to Sunderland recently, seeking a bit of economic cheer. Nissan are putting a lot of money into their factory there, with record numbers of vehicles rolling off the production line – including, significantly, the new, full-electric Leaf. Other electric cars are available of course, but there is some reason to be [...]
As an organisation that’s been banging the drum of behaviour change and its centrality to reducing carbon emissions for many years, it’s always nice to see a bit of third party vindication – if it were needed. A new European Energy Agency report has done just that. It says that a fifth of the energy [...]
Our Scottish blogger Michael has done much by way of speculating on Scotland’s potential as a hub of renewable energy activity – based solidly on the fact that the nation is doing rather a lot in this field. They won’t even let Donald Trump stand in the way of their renewables revolution. Being trailblazers requires [...]
Browsing the web for blog-worthy material I happened upon a story about a Texas firm making little houses made of almost 100 per cent locally-salvaged materials. And it turns out it’s not the first time the author has written about browsing cast-off materials and having a build: featured before was a guy from the UK [...]
Greenbuild editor, Lucy Young, examines the case for a sustainable built environment and the range of benefits it brings, from energy security through to job creation, highlighting the reasons why we just can’t afford not to go green. “This green stuff you write about, it’s not really important any more, now that nobody has any money,” some [...]
Every once in a while we see a certain kind of local news story, and our collective heart sinks. It’s the ones where criminals are going door-to-door, pretending to represent Energy Saving Trust and hard-selling energy-saving goods and services, real or imagined, to people. This recent article in the Bradford Telegraph and Argus tells of [...]
General form says you should probably get the bad news out of the way first, so here it is: UK CO2 emissions were up 4.5 per cent in 2012, largely due to supplies of cheap coal, and attempts to make the most of the last days of some of the condemned power stations that burn [...]