Latest Green News

  • 23 May 2013

    New app could help appease fears about wind turbine developments

    A Scottish start-up, Linknode has created 3-D software that it claims could revolutionise the wind farm development industry and take the politics out of the equation.

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  • 22 May 2013

    Green innovation: how Local Motors is revolutionalising the way cars and bikes are designed, manufactured and sold

    Local Motors shares its innovations and lets customers be part of the car-building process, while keeping it local.

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  • 15 May 2013

    On the buses: retrofit hybrid engine innovators scoop Shell Springboard Award

    Two young British entrepreneurs who have designed a diesel-electric hybrid engine that can be retrofitted to double-decker buses have been crowned winners of the coveted Shell Springboard Award.

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  • 08 May 2013

    30 firms share in £16m low carbon energy innovation funding

    As many as 30 UK firms are to share millions of pounds of funding in a major Government programme that aims to accelerate commercialisation of low carbon energy technologies.

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  • 02 May 2013

    Sustainable business: how we can learn from India’s ‘frugal’ innovators

    India’s culture of jugaad, or frugal innovation, has helped produce a wide range of sustainable breakthroughs. Are there lessons there for the rest of the world? Ian Thornton meets the innovators.

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  • 01 May 2013

    Naked Energy to begin UK trials of its ‘two-in-one’ solar system

    Naked Energy, the UK cleantech firm that has developed a super-efficient 'two-in-one solar’ energy system, will shortly begin trialing its patented technology with two commercial partners.

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  • 30 Apr 2013

    Green innovation: why washing clothes will one day be old hat

    With demand for water projected to outstrip supply by 40 per cent by 2030, there is a real need for innovations in how we use it and how much we use it – not least when washing our clothes, says Peter Madden, chief executive of Forum for the Future.

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