Eco-supermarket’s green delivery
A truck which runs on fuel made from rotting waste will leave Bristol en route to a new environmental store in Devon.
August 17th, 2008 - Posted in Environment | | Comments Off
Drivers begin chip fat fuel rally
Cars powered only by chip fat and cooking oil set off on a rally from London to Greece.
August 16th, 2008 - Posted in Environment | | Comments Off
Time to encourage biomass growth
More needs to be down to encourage investment in large-scale biomass plants if the EU is going to meet its renewables goal.
July 29th, 2008 - Posted in Environment | | Comments Off
Brazil defends biofuel’s merits
Biofuels are losing friends almost as quickly as they made them as they are accused of displacing food crops and pushing up prices, yet Brazil is pushing for their spread. But a major exception to this trend is Brazil where ethanol from sugar cane is now outselling gasoline, and production runs into billions of litres. The enthusiastic support of the government is guaranteed. Latin America’s largest country has even been attracting some praise and attention from the candidates for president in the United States.
July 28th, 2008 - Posted in Environment | | Comments Off
Government blamed over fuel costs
More than a third of people think the government is most to blame for high fuel costs, a BBC Panorama poll suggests.
July 27th, 2008 - Posted in Environment | | Comments Off
Landfill waste to power vehicles
A company announces plans to make fuel produced from landfill waste commercially available by 2010.
July 21st, 2008 - Posted in Environment | | Comments Off
Climate crisis: Roosevelt revisited
Andrew Simms, co-author of a Green New Deal, says we have only 100 months to prevent dangerous climate change.
July 20th, 2008 - Posted in Environment | | Comments Off
Snared in a homemade ‘NitroNet’
Humans are using too much nitrogen, and leaving so much of it that the natural world is struggling to cope.
July 8th, 2008 - Posted in Environment | | Comments Off
Cleantech investment hits record
Despite a downturn in venture capital, the amount of money being ploughed into clean technology is on a roll.
July 8th, 2008 - Posted in Environment | | Comments Off
Bus fares to rise over fuel cost
A bus company in Berkshire says it has been forced to put up fare prices due to the rising cost of fuel.
July 6th, 2008 - Posted in Environment | | Comments Off
