CO2 emission mapping of continental US
A new map service is offering more than 100 times the detail of previous inventories of carbon dioxide being emitted in the continental United States.
View ArticleNow fresh water without high emission bottles
To conform to the marketing-imposed fashion to drink bottled water on the hoof, consumers greatly add to a number of other problems such as landfill capacity, littering and carbon dioxide emissions.
View ArticlePersonal carbon counter coming by year's end
A personal carbon counter developed by a consortium under EU sponsorship will be marketed in New Zealand before the end of this year.
View ArticleAuto industry authority: hydrogen fuel may be viable
BMW says that the influential J.D. "Dave" Power III, founder of J.D. Power and Associates and board member of Fuel Systems Solutions, Inc., is the latest high-visibility eco-friendly ambassador to...
View ArticleTen users per computer idea takes 5000 car-equivalent off the road
A Canadian company claims that in the past year its software, which allows up to 10 people to work from one computer, has saved 29,000 tons of CO2 emissions, the equivalent of taking more than 5000...
View ArticleNow for the world's first hybrid rubbish truck
Volvo is testing two hybrid refuse trucks in regular daily operations in Sweden by refuse collection firms Renova and Ragn-Sells.
View ArticleWanganui firm pioneering organic engineering parts
A quest to substitute naphtha derived plastic production engineering components for organic ones is under way at Axiam, a Wanganui high precision engineer better known internationally than it is here.
View ArticleIf you send more e-mail do you produce less carbon?
Research currently underway at Sun Microsystems is trying to measure the carbon footprint of individual e-mails, BusinessGreen reports.
View ArticleWaihopai attack might hurt big global warming probe
The attack on the satellite earth station at Waihope, near Blenheim, could have imperiled New Zealand participation in what many believe to be the most sensitive and complex scientific study of global...
View Article$200,000 grant backs computer collection scheme
A community collection scheme for keeping end-of-life home computers out of landfills has been backed by a $200,000 grant from the Government's Sustainable Management Fund.
View ArticleCapital developer creating 'first true green building'
Leading restoration developer Ian Cassells is highlighting New Zealand's "phony" approach to green building by developing the country's first office-as-a-village, which will eliminate car emissions by...
View ArticlePetrify, liquefy: New ways to bury greenhouse gas
Turn greenhouse gases to stone? Transform them into a treacle-like liquid deep under the seabed? The ideas may sound like far-fetched schemes from an alchemist's notebook, but scientists are pursuing...
View ArticleNow for the hydrogen powered cellphone
The French have invented a hydrogen powered cellphone
View ArticleTechnical and supply tangles tripping up electric car plans
Technical and supply issues are standing in the way of a Government target to have hundreds of thousands of electric vehicles in use here in the next seven years.
View ArticleComms company looks to install solar panels on customers' roofs
Cox Communications has announced initiatives to cut energy costs that include adding solar electricity to its headquarters and communications system and increasing fuel efficiency in its fleet vehicles.
View ArticleAdvisory group looking at incentives for electric vehicle buyers
The Ministry of Transport's Vehicle Energy and Renewables Group (VERG) is looking at ways of creating incentives for manufacturers to bring significant numbers of electric vehicles into New Zealand.
View ArticleFunding talks underway to start New Zealand electric car industry
EXCLUSIVE: New Zealand could soon be building its own electric cars.
View ArticleBusiness leaders: ETS fuels delay means incentives needed to buy electric...
Business leaders yesterday welcomed a Carbon News report that Ministry of Transport officials are investigating options for incentives to encourage people to buy low-emission vehicles.
View ArticleKitchen experiment leads to plastic bag recycling breakthrough
A kitchen experiment has led a Christchurch (New Zealand) man to a solution for one of the world's biggest environmental problems - how to dispose of the ubiquitous plastic shopping bag.
View ArticleAce Rentals trialing clean-fuel device already subject to ConsumerNZ doubts
One of the country's car rental firms announced yesterday it is trialing a device which is says is new and cuts nitrous oxide and particulate exhaust emissions. However, it did not say the Consumers...
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