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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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Good News At The End Of Day 1 Of The Copenhagen Climate Summit

December 8, 2009

There was good news at the end of the first day of the Copenhagen summit as America’s Environmental Protection Agency formally declared that greenhouse gases endanger human health – a decision which will give President Obama the power to regulate emissions with or without the backing of Congress. There had been fears Mr Obama would [...]

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Carbon Neutral Home Of The Future To Be Built In Bolton

December 4, 2009

A futuristic home is to be built in Bolton as a national example of how to create carbon neutral, environmentally friendly housing. The four-bedroom house will be built on the edge of the West Pennine Moors and will be powered by its own wind turbine. It is one of a series of government pilot schemes [...]

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2010 World Cup in South Africa to Leave Massive Carbon Footprint

November 30, 2009

A new study by the Department of Environment and Tourism, conducted by Swedish consultants and the Norwegian embassy, and financed by the Norwegian government has predicted that the 2010 football World Cup, to be held in South Africa, will leave a carbon footprint nearly nine times bigger than that left by the 2006 World Cup [...]

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Two Third’s of UK’s Biggest Brands Failing to Meet Government Climate Change Targets

November 28, 2009

Just one week before the much talked about Copenhagen conference 2009 starts, a new survery has been published by the University of Edinburgh Business School and ENDS Carbon which has shown that 400 of the biggest 600 brands in Britain are either increasing their emissions, had weaker targets than the Government’s recommendation or they refused [...]

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Aviation Industry Aims For Carbon Neutral Growth

November 23, 2009

The air transport industry is now working towards carbon-neutral growth despite the rise in traffic, the Air Transport Action Group has said. “No increase in carbon emissions in spite of traffic growth is the first step towards a carbon-free future,” the Air Transport Action Group said in a note presented at the Sky Blue – [...]

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V11 Countries Send S.O.S Over Climate Change

November 16, 2009

Ahead of the forthcoming climate change conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, the world’s most climate-vulnerable countries have called on the developed countries to provide money amounting to at least 1.5 per cent of their gross domestic product to assist developing countries make their transition to a climate resilient low-carbon economy. Bangladesh, Nepal, Vietnam, Kiribati, Barbados, The [...]

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How Electric Cars Could Actually Increase Carbon Emissions

November 12, 2009

A major new report carried out by the European Federation for Transport & Environment (T&E) has dispelled the myth that a wholesale switch to electric powered cars would automatically reduce carbon dioxide emissions. The report, entitled ‘How to avoid an electric shock: Electric cars from hype to reality’, states that whilst there are potentially significant [...]

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