New Hybrid Honda CR-Z To Make Debut At Geneva Motor Show

February 12, 2010

Perpetual innovators Honda plan to show off their all new hybrid car, the CR-Z at next months Geneva motor show. Honda hope that their new model will shake off the stigma that has been attached to hybrid cars of them being somehwhat dull, ugly and sluggish. From the photos of the CR-Z that have been [...]

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Government To Spend £60m On New Eco-Towns

February 10, 2010

LONDON, UK – The British government has announced plans to spend almost £60 million to build four carbon-neutral towns in England. The so-called eco-towns were chosen from a list of 12 finalists. They are St. Austell in Cornwall, Whitehill-Bordon in Hampshire, North West Bicester in Oxfordshire and Rackheath in Norfolk. The money will be used [...]

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We’ve Moved!

February 8, 2010

Hi, Welcome to our new blog. This blog is the number one place to keep up to date with all the major news – good and bad – about stuff that could affect our environment. So please subscribe to our feed and feel free to speak your mind in the comments section about any of [...]

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Tesco Opens World’s First Zero Carbon Supermarket

February 3, 2010

The UK’s biggest supermarket chain, Tesco this week opened what it claimed to be the first zero carbon supermarket in the world. The new store is the first step on the ladder in Tesco’s bid to be a carbon neutral company by 2050. The shop, which has been opened in the town of Ramsey, Cambridgeshire, [...]

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IPL Reveals Plans for Carbon Neutral Cricket

February 2, 2010

The Indian Premier League has teamed up with the United Nations Environment Programme to commit the league to carbon off-setting and greener practices. The 2010 Indian Premier League will start on 12th March, when the new climate-friendly programme will commence. Achim Steiner, the UN Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UNEP, said: “Together the IPL and [...]

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Roof Mounted Wind Turbines are Just a Load of Hot Air

January 22, 2010

Expensive roof-mounted wind turbines and solar panels are nothing more than ‘eco-bling’, that allow their owners to show off about their green credentials, but which in reality do little or nothing to help reduce carbon emmisions – according to a new report by The Royal Academy of Engineering. Developers will waste millions of pounds installing [...]

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Student Invents Coca-Cola Powered Mobile Phone

January 14, 2010

Charging your mobile phone up using a traditional battery charger may well become a thing of the past thanks to a novel new invention from Central Saint Martins University graduate Daizi Zheng. Ms Zheng designed the ‘greenphone’ – which is powered purely by the soft drink Coca-Cola – as part of her final year university [...]

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New ‘Smart Paint’ Could Help Reduce Carbon Emissions

January 12, 2010

The latest step along the path to carbon neutrality has been developed by Dr Rachel Armstrong, of University College London. Dr Armstrong has developed a new ’smart paint’ which could help to turn buildings into carbon sinks, according to a story published in the New Scientist this week. According to the Energy Saving Trust, carbon [...]

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Top 10 Areas Worst Affected By Global Warming

January 8, 2010

As scientists claim that the snows of Kilimanjaro are disappearing, the Nepali government hold a cabinet meeting on mount Everest, and the Maldivian government hold a cabinet meeting under the sea, The Telegraph have complied a list of the ten areas most affected by global warming worldwide: Bangladesh People living in the flood-prone delta nation [...]

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Carbon Neutral Interactive Cloud Over London Proposed to Mark 2012 Olympics

January 4, 2010

Architects, engineers and artists have collaborated to propose a highly ambitious structure called the Cloud – which is intended to serve as both a monument and a real-time digital display for the London 2012 Olympics. The size of the cloud will depend on the level of funding that is received; as it is intended that [...]

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