Saul Griffith led off Greener Gadgets 2009 with one of the best 40 minute explanations of why (to use his words) we're all a bunch of "planet fuckers" and what we can do to change that in terms of our energy ......

Filed under: Industry, 24, Reality-Free Seems that terrorist threats aren't the only things that Jack Bauer likes to thwart - apparently he doesn't like litter, pollution, or global warming either. FOX announced today that 24 has successfully become the first ever "carbon neutral" television product...

Defra deserves a glass of celebratory eco fizz for coordinating the sustainable clothing action plan which it launched at London Fashion Week last Friday. It's no mean feat to bring together a veritable ragbag of different interest groups from mainstream corporations such as M&S and Tesco to chariti...

Developing countries have received less than 10% of the money promised by rich countries to help them adapt to global warming, an analysis by the Guardian has found. The failure is fostering deep distrust between rich and poor nations and is seriously undermining key negotiations on a global climate...

Civil servants at the Department for Transport (DfT) asked a top aviation lobby group for help to win the parliamentary battle over keeping aircraft emissions out of key climate change legislation, according to papers seen by the Guardian. The documents, leaked from industry-funded group Flying Matt...

The term "eco home" is now so used and abused that it barely retains any trace of meaning. So when we learn that Channel 4's Grand Designs is to feature yet another eco home this week it's tempting to pre-emptively reach for the remote. (Incidentally, my favourite featured home was Ben Law's Woodsma...

Engineers on the Sleipner East platform in the North Sea can lay claim to a unique environmental honour. Each year for the past decade they have pumped a million tonnes of carbon dioxide into an old gas field below their rig, a helpful contribution to the easing of global warming. But there is more ...

Thinking big can be a blessing or a curse. In the case of green power generation, big ideas can be hard to translate into workable plans because we have so little experience with scaled-up projects.... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]...

Denmark's Tax Commission is considering putting a tax on farmers' greenhouse gas emissions, which they reckon to be approximately 4 tons per cow per year (that's more than an average passenger car, which they say emits approximately 2.7 tons). What's a poor farmer to do?......

Meet the satnav that nags you to conserve fuel. Dubbed the Econav, this new gadget will not only guide you from Land's End to John O'Groats but will also tick you off when you abuse the accelerator and brake pedal. It'll sigh - well, flash a visual and audio warning - when you need to shift gear. If...