Light ‘pipes’, or ‘tubes’ provide natural light to buildings in the place of electricity. This article outlines how they work and their benefits.

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, [...]

It was inevitable that heavily industrialized China would eventually need to come up with an environmental policy for large companies which use enormous amounts of energy every year. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is leading the pack with a program that hopes to bring energy efficient technology to mass energy using companies in the industrialized [...]

Australia’s environment minister, Peter Garrett, celebrated World Environment Day by announcing three new initiatives to help householders fight climate change while keeping their wallets full. The initiatives include:

a new television labelling scheme to enable consumers to identify the most energy efficient sets at point of sale
a new guide to help householders and in particular renovators [...]

More and more countries are urging citizens to switch from using incandescent light bulbs to energy saving compact florescent lamps, CFLs. But what to do with the new alternative light source after it expires is a problem companies are hoping to control in the next few years.
CFLs contain 2.5 to 3 milligrams of mercury. Despite [...]

This summers much talked about Olympic games in Beijing claims to be “basically” carbon neutral due to energy saving techniques like the use of solar power and afforestation programs, senior officials said this month.
The Technology Minister Wan Gang said the event would produce 1.18 million tones of CO2 mostly due to athletes and spectators who [...]

The city of Juneau, Alaska’s capital and popular cruise destination, was hit by a devastating avalanche last month that cut the electric lines that power the city with hydroelectricity. The disaster has forced the city to transform its ways and become a model for energy conservation.
A dangerous snow slide occurred on the coastal range of [...]

A global switch to efficient lighting systems would trim the world’s electricity bill by nearly one-tenth. This is the conclusion of the first global survey of lighting uses and costs conducted by the International Energy Agency.
Carbon emissions saved by this switch would dwarf cuts so far achieved by adopting wind and solar power. Better [...]

According to the UK Tea Council, as a nation we consume 165m cups of tea and 70m cups of coffee each day. When the Energy Savings Trust conducted a survey in 2006 they found that 67% of tea drinkers in the UK admit to overfilling their electric kettle each time. Although it may seem trivial, [...]

It seems to have become a favourite with companies recently; to announce their products as sufficiently eco-friendly for today’s green-concious public, yet with no actual basis for the claim. The term ‘greenwashing’, coined in the early ’90s, applies to businesses who spend more money and/or time advertising their green credentials instead of actively working to [...]