We all must go Beyond Petroleum, not just BP
Finally BP seem to be getting a grip, quite literally, on the source of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. But with its stock value...
Smart Grids for Idiots
Jan 13, 2010
This morning I was reading the usual batch of letters to my local paper on how terrible renewable energy is, how global warming is a...
Glen Bennett, EAE Ltd
Jul 29, 2009
Yesterday I interviewed Glen Bennett, founder and MD of EAE Ltd, a Scottish leaflet marketing business. This video, made by young people as part of...
Engineering the Future
Jul 27, 2009
I'm a member of the Institute of Engineering & Technology - back when I was appointed a member it was the Institute of Electrical Engineers...
Green Wednesday?
Jul 17, 2009
And lo! It came to pass that the UK did publish a huge raft of low carbon strategies on one day in July. And as...
Low carbon strategies – but are they too little, too late?
Jul 15, 2009
The UK Government is launching a raft of strategies today: Low Carbon Transition Plan, a Renewable Energy Strategy and the Low Carbon Industrial Strategy. I'll...
Book Review: The Solar Economy by Hermann Scheer
Jul 13, 2009
German MP and Solar Champion Hermann Scheer wrote this book about 10 years ago and it has been available in English for about 7 years,...
Green Energy Investment Overtakes Fossil Fuels
Jun 8, 2009
In 2008 wind, solar and other clean technologies attracted $140bn (£85bn) compared with $110bn for gas and coal for electrical power generation (source: Guardian). There...
What planet is the energy industry on?
Apr 6, 2009
I've written a couple of posts recently about the retail and automotive industries seeing green as the way out of the recession, but the rather...
Weekly Tip #34: Blowing in the wind
Nov 17, 2008
This is the latest of a series of tips extracted from the forthcoming Green Business Bible e-book:Wind is currently the most cost effective source of...