Introducing amee
There’s a tech company out there that is trying to save life on Earth. amee’s mission is to track and map environmental data for every business in the world and create a platform for organisations of all sizes to assess, report and compare their own environmental performance with their peers. The team is full of PhDs (20%!),...
IF YOU use energy, the future’s grim.
Prices are set to rise again, and again, and again.
For many, the hikes announced before Christmas were more than enough to worry about, but a spokesperson from Ofgem, the UK electricity and gas market regulator, say prices will soar again.
Alistair Buchanan, chief executive of Ofgem, said a lack of energy...
IT IS hard to imagine there is anything that creates as good an argument for conserving our planet as the Wildlife Photographer of the Year series.
The exhibition in the Natural History Museum, West London, obviously comes complete with the obligatory polar bear on a shrinking bit of ice, but it is the more subtle shots that create the greatest...
THE Energy and Climate Change Department has welcomed a new addition.
Stephen Lovegrove has replaced Moira Wallce as Permanent Secretary and is expected to take his position from February 4.
The Oxford University graduate sat on the board of the Paralympics and Olympics organising committee and worked for Deutsche Bank for 10 years, where he was...
ENTREPRENEURS who think they can create the next big thing in bioenergy can bid for a share in £2million.
The Government is doling out the money in the hope to spur innovation in the field.
As set out in the Government’s 2012 bioenergy strategy, sustainably sourced bioenergy could contribute around eight to 11% to the UK’s total primary energy...
We've already had a look at the winners of Facebook competition, along with some of the wackier and longer entries. Today we look at the other wonderful entries we received. Below are 26 great ideas for how the UK could go carbon free.
1. Wind turbine on every power pylon
By: David Harper
There has always been contention over where wind turbines...
Yesterday we had a look at the winners from our ‘How The Uk Can Go Carbon Free' Facebook contest. Today let's have a look at some of the fun, wacky and crazy entries we received. From poor spelling and grammar to out there ideas, we hope you'll find these as entraining as we did.
All entries have been reproduced as is. Names have been removed to...
Last month we held a Facebook competition to find the best ideas for 'How The UK Can Go Carbon Free'. Over the course of two weeks we were please to receive dozens of great entries.
Here were the top 4 by vote total:
In fourth place we have this entry from Josiah which received 43 votes:
Algae Power!
The UK could go carbon free by fitting CO2-...
SOLAR energy just got a whole lot cooler.
Springtime, a Dutch design team, have wheeled out an ice cream cart which keeps treats frozen using the sun’s rays.
The innovative design has a photovoltaic (solar) panel in the roof which makes enough energy to charge the vehicle’s batteries during the day.
Even when the sun is not out, the batteries...
In the current economic climate, we could all do with as much money saving advice as possible. Even better if making some simple changes would not only make our budgets stretch further, but would also have a positive impact on the environment.
We've probably all seen the most common tips many times: make sure all lights are switched off when you...