Environmental Features
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Sony UK today launched Open Planet Ideas, a new online community 'incubator’ for collaborative technology solutions to critical environmental issues, with support from global conservation organisation WWF.
With more mouths to feed and increasing demands on land, Duncan Graham-Rowe asks if vertical farms are the future?
In an era when everything environmental - incuding biodiversity, waste, and fish stocks - is measured with indicators announcing that you will be the UK's "greenest ever government", begs a number of questions - most obviously, "measured how?".
This year’s Recycling and Waste Management Exhibition (RWM ) takes place at the NEC Birmingham from September 14 to 16. Free to enter, the RWM exhibition will feature over 500 exhibiting companies and more than 40 free seminar sessions.
How can leaders create and transition to low carbon cities that benefit us all? This key question was addressed in Shanghai two weeks ago, where The Climate Group co-sponsored the 'Partnership for Urban Innovation' conference with technology company Cisco and Metropolis – a network of over 100 cities.
There is a growing need to reduce the carbon emissions of Britain’s existing housing stock and an increasing number of industry and Government-led projects are addressing the challenge. Louise Bateman reports
Elon Musk, the chief executive and major investor behind Tesla Motors Inc, has sometimes taunted U.S. automakers, painting his fledgling company as everything Detroit would like to be if it could start over: cooler, greener and ensconced in a much better neighborhood.
At first glance, RSK Business Solutions appears to be the black sheep of the RSK Group environmental consultancy family.
Cook specialises in premium home-delivered frozen meals and its mantra is "we only ever use tools and techniques that we would use at home".
By 2016 all new homes will have to be zero carbon and building regulations are getting tighter all the time to ensure energy and water efficiency is improved and carbon emissions are reduced in the UK housing stock.
A new partnership between the Federation of Small Businesses and Business in the Community aims to make sustainability mentoring available to thousands of small businesses up and down the country. Louise Bateman reports.
Duncan Graham-Rowe reports on the scientific efforts taking place around the world to turn CO2 in our atmosphere into green fuel.
"There’s enough pressure in the world’s gas pipelines to make every nuclear power station redundant." That’s the bold claim of Andrew Mercer, setting out the rationale behind his Bath-based renewables company, 2OC.
Across the world’s sunbelts, concentrated solar power is emerging as a blindingly obvious answer both to global power –and local water – needs. But can it reach the scale required? asks Duncan Graham-Rowe.
The UK construction industry is experiencing the worst slump in decades and it's not over yet. So is green building the answer to its woes? Louise Bateman reports.