From the monthly archives:

March 2010

East Midlands Airport to Grow Their Own Biofuel

March 30, 2010

Just over an hour down the road from us here at Doncaster Robin Hood Airport is East Midlands Airport – and they have just given a clear indication of their plans to become a carbon neutral airport by planting their very own willow farm. The willow farm will span 26 hectares – the equivalent of [...]

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US Start-Up Announce Plans for Carbon Neutral Cement

March 22, 2010

Follwing on from our story last year about professor Pal Mangat’s development of carbon neutral cement, a start-up company based in the US says it has found a way to capture the carbon dioxide emissions from coal and gas power plants and lock them into cement. Calera is trying to capture carbon in the production [...]

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Solar Powered iPod and iPhone Cases / Chargers Released

March 17, 2010

Apple’s iPhone and iPod Touch are among the most popular gadgets in the world today, with almost 100m combined units having been sold around the globe in the two and a half years since their launch. However, perhaps the most annoying feature of both gadgets is their ability to burn up the batteries if you [...]

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The Green Weblog is Now Officially Carbon Neutral!!

March 15, 2010

Seeing as though this blog is written by us guys down at Ixpo – who manufacture carbon neutral products – it felt a bit hypocritical that the blog wasn’t officially carbon neutral. But that has changed now, after we decided to start the ‘Carbon Positive Blog’ initiative. Basically, what we at Ixpo are going to [...]

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Paington Zoo to Reduce Carbon Emissions with Elephant Dung

March 8, 2010

Paignton zoo in Devon is hoping to reduce it’s carbon emissions by 10% by utilising one of their home-made resources – elephant dung. The zoo hopes to burn biogas produced by the dung to generate electricity. Both Paignton and its sister zoo in Newquay have signed up to the 10:10 campaign and pledged to reduce [...]

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Marks & Spencer Aims for 100% ‘Eco / Ethical’ Product Porfolio by 2020

March 1, 2010

One of the UK’s biggest retailers, Marks & Spencer are to step up their efforts to sell only products that have at least one ‘eco-friendly’ or ‘ethical’ attribute. The retailer has planned for half of their products to meet this standard by 2015, and by 2020 M&S aims to have that figure at 100%. To [...]

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