So what is microgeneration? This article takes a closer look on the smaller ways of helping to combat climate change. It opens the possibility of alterations that can be made to any home across the UK, which are proven to be efficient renewable energy sources and help towards a more sustainable Britain.

Biofuels, not so long ago heralded as the best thing since cheap oil, have become increasingly fought over, with environmental and humanitarian groups criticizing their production for taking away resources from food production or for expropriating land from rain-forests or other habitats for their preferential cultivation. At the recent UN food summit in Rome, Brazilian [...]

With populations growing rapidly and resources running low, the demand for renewable energy will only get larger in the years to come. While renewable energy cuts greenhouse gas emissions, officials are still left with the problem of how to balance supply and demand and what storage procedures should be taken into action. New reports delve [...]

Garden waste is no longer rubbish. Branches, leaves and manure can now be recycled and used as biofuels to cut greenhouse gas emissions, claims a new report.
The Green Power Institute of Oakland California has released a study that shows the environmental perks of garden waste used as biogases. The aim to regulate greenhouse gas emissions [...]

The UK should embrace a system of personal carbon trading instead of the current practice of cap-and-trade system for business and industry, according to the House of Commons’ Environmental Audit Committee. The Committee admitted that initially such a system may be tricky to put in place, but was resolute that this type of scheme would [...]

The Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) launched its snazzy ACT ON CO2 calculator last Summer. The calculator takes the form of an animated, attractive website, which guides people through the steps they need to work out there carbon footprint. The application allows for both individuals and households to tally their emissions, [...]

Manuel Pinho, Portugal’s economic minister, granted the permit in 2005 for the construction of the world’s largest solar power site that will provide 130 jobs directly and another 300 indirectly as well as supply enough energy per year to support 30,000 homes.
The site has been situated near Moura which stands in an impoverished region that [...]

Green advertising rules made up by the EU are keeping advertisers on their toes and could hurt the car advertisement industry officials said this week.
Within months, those glossy, sexy advertisements for luxury cars seen on every other page of magazines will likely be forced to show their real colors with climate hazard alerts. The print [...]

Today the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is holding its annual World Environment day, a day designed, acording to the UN itself,to ‘give a human face to environmental issues’ and to ‘empower people to become active agents of sustainable and equitable development.’
To that end, the nice men and women with green briefcases and brains have [...]

Microgeneration could produce as much electricity in a year as five nuclear power stations a government-backed report reveals. The report, commissioned by the Department for Business, Energy and Regulatory Reform (DBERR), says that with the right incentives 10m microgeneration systems could be installed by 2020. This would provide nearly 5% of UK electricity - saving [...]