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What we're doing Right
Eco-friendly whisky
27th December 2008
Raise a glass to drinks conglomerate Diageo, which is building a “green distillery” in Speyside, Scotland – one that will recycle its water, produce 15 per cent of the carbon (…)
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More bright ideas
25th October 2008
Three German towns are piloting a project that keeps streets dark until travellers call into an automated system to switch lights on along their route. Schwelentrup-Doerntrup and Rahden have joined the Dial4Light (…)
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Solar savvy
2nd February 2008
Solar power is the world’s fastest-growing sector in the global energy markets, thanks in large part to new sleek technologies, like thin film solar cells
What we're doing Wrong
Some biofuels are “worse than useless”
2nd February 2008
Biofuels are falsely promoted as “green,” but the energy used to grow them and the nitrous oxide emissions from fertilisers mean they can have an even greater global warming effect than fossil fuels, says a Nobel-prize winning scientist
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Farming the desert
15th December 2007
Europe could get a sixth of its energy from a solar farm spanning the deserts of North Africa