Environmental stories tagged with: energy

This is the conclusion of Architecture 2030 who delivered its 'silver bullet' for solving the global warming crisis in a full-page ad in The New York Times. According to Edward Mazria, founder of Architecture 2030, the only way to stop global warming is to stop coal.

In an announcement at the Labour Party conference, Hilary Benn, Secretary of State for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, said all high energy bulbs will be phased out by 2011.

US Department of Energy (DOE) Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Alexander Karsner has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with The Green Grid, to increase energy efficiency in the ever-growing information technology sector.

Innovation Secretary John Denham has the location of the new Energy Technologies Institute (ETI), backed by up to £550m of Government investment announced by Gordon Brown in the 2006 Budget.

Sustainable Development Commission calls for changes to Ofgem's role to tackle challenges of a sustainable future.

In the next 30 to 50 years, renewable energy will play an increasingly important role in China's energy supply strategy, and it is expected to account for 30% or higher of China's total energy supply by 2050, said Shi Dinghuan, president of the Institute of renewable energy in China, at the opening ceremony of the International Solar Energy Society's Solar World Congress.

This week saw the green light given for Wave Hub deep-sea socket off Cornwall and the Teesside offshore wind farm off Tees Mouth, but these developments are taking too long through the planning system.

Waste reduction is the most important environmental issue facing manufacturing businesses today, according to an international study on sustainability and environmental trends conducted by Harris Interactive for Dow Corning Corporation.

A growing number of European companies are switching to renewable energy for their manufacturing plants, stores and office facilities. Renewable energy is allowing more companies than ever to power their operations while realising a number of business benefits in the process.

E.ON UK is researching and developing a 'groundbreaking giant battery', equivalent to 10 million AA batteries, that will be able to store energy in a move which could unlock the full potential of renewable energy and micro generation.

The UK Government has today given planning approval for the world's first large scale wave farm off the coast of Cornwall in South West England.