Algae lamp absorbs 200 times more CO₂ than trees
A French scientist has found a way to put slimy pond produce to good use
View ArticleA future without fracking?
Shale gas and hydraulic fracturing (fracking) have been hitting the headlines for months, surrounded by debate on controversial extraction methods. But if the future of fracking is uncertain, what are...
View ArticleGlobal Transition Round-Up
The Transition Network has launched its new website, including directories of initiatives and projects, 'microsites' with up-to-date news from the network and movement.
View ArticleWe Want Less and We Want it Now!
Rachel Francis from Household Energy Services, proposes that the winners of the Big Green Challenge represent the building blocks a new Green Economics model.
View ArticleCommunity Energy Strategy aims to take on the big six firms
The first of its kind the UK, the Community Energy Strategy aims to spark a ‘decentralised energy revolution’
View ArticleNew York towns given power to ban fracking
A groundbreaking ruling allows towns opposed to fracking to ban heavy industry within municipal borders
View ArticleSainsbury’s powers entire supermarket with food waste
A Sainsbury’s store in Cannock has become the first supermarket in the world to derive 100% of its power through its own food waste
View ArticleWaste-to-jet fuel partnership takes off
A new project, the first of its kind globally, will see rubbish otherwise bound for landfill turned into clean aviation fuel
View ArticleDisused Welsh coal mine to become solar farm
The project is one of two by solar energy developer Conergy which will create enough electricity to power 3,200 UK homes
View ArticleUK solar capacity almost doubled in 2014
Britain now has more than 650,000 solar installations across homes, businesses and public service buildings, according to recent figures from the Department of Energy and Climate Change
View ArticleNew energy storage invention set to change the future of the renewables industry
For a long time the progress of renewable energy has been hampered by its transient nature: neither the sun nor wind is ‘on’ 24/7. But now Elon Musk’s new energy storage invention is set to change the...
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