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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,

IT hardware firm Logitech has an iPad keyboard that is powered solely using solar cells and the day when other gadgets such as mobile phones and iPods can be powered using solar energy moves closer every day. The photoelectric cells integrated onto the portable keyboard generate energ

One of the simplest, yet most effective, ways of engineering the urban environment to cope with global warming is to increase the reflectivity of the cityscape so that more of the incoming sunlight is directed back into space. Painting roofs white and using light-coloured materials to