A project at Greenwich University, London aims to use nanoparticle technology to build new, lightweight types of transport, including space vehicles, planes and cars, with components that are also recyclable. Researchers will investigate the potential for replacing heavy steel in comp

Last Thursday, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines Flight 642 completed the seven hour and 17 minute flight from New York’s JFK Airport to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol using sustainable biofuels. Flight KL642, operated by a Boeing 777-200, will fly every Thursday fueled by recycled cooking oil as

A UK university-led team of scientists is to develop a reactor that converts CO2 into fuel so efficiently it could offset every year more than three times the amount of carbon produced by Britain. It will look to make ‘photo-catalytic reductions,’ which use solar energy to creat

The world’s first online search engine for sustainability resources in the built environment has launched today to support the delivery of greener buildings. The free-to-use online platform, called Pinpoint, contains over 200 resources, including reports, case studies, measurement and

Are you terrified by the melting polar ice cap, rising sea levels, extreme weather, and other growing threats from global warming? There’s something you can do about it, new research shows. Just don’t work so hard. David Rosnick, an economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Rese

A project which could lead to the water held in the network of abandoned mine workings underneath Glasgow being used to generate up to 40 per cent of the city’s heat will begin this month. Scientists at Glasgow Caledonian University have recently received funding from ScottishPower to

Belgium plans to construct an island for the sole purpose of storing its vast amounts wind energy. According to reports, this is part of Belgium’s plan to wean itself off of nuclear energy by 2025, which as of 2011 accounts for more than half of its energy production. Government

Retail giant Sainsbury’s has unveiled a campaign to encourage consumers to cut down on the amount of food waste they generate each week. The campaign, titled ‘Make your Roast go Further’, is being backed by the Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP) and focuses on waste from ro

Apple has established a clean energy initiative with plans to power several of its data centres with 100% renewable energy created by the company and locally procured. This past spring, Apple announced that it was building a 20-MW solar farm to help power its data centre in Maiden, No

Iceland is considering building the world’s longest subsea power cable by around 2020 to take advantage of its abundant geothermal energy to supply the UK with green power, the head of the state-run electricity producer said. “We can serve as a green battery for the UK,