Greenbang’s not always the biggest lover of supermarkets, usually opting for the local food market rather than the Sainsbury’s at the end of the road.
Whilst I respect their purchasing power there are, I feel, very few occasions when the industry as a whole uses it well. But, on this occasion, Greenbang is impressed.
Walmart, which owns Asda in the UK and is the world’s biggest retailer, challenged its biggest electronics manufacturers to cut down on packaging in a ‘Home Entertainment Design Challenge’ competition last year.
The company’s top 30 suppliers of mp3 players, TVs, consoles and, well, lots more leccy goods to boot were challenged to slim down their packaging and distribution footprint.
And some of the suppliers, including the likes of Lexmarrk, Phillips and Sanyo appear to have responded brilliantly. But Walmart declared HP the winner of the competition.
HP stripped 97 per cent of the packaging for its new $800 Pavilion lapto...
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Post Date: 2008-03-05 01:05:39
According to James Bond movie title, the world is not enough. According to the European Environment Agency (EEA), more efficient transport is not enough. To stop “the spiralling growth of emissions” that is.
According to the EEA, increasing transport emissions might Die Another Day if Europe set tougher targets and that European countries need to turn transport policy into a Licence to Kill demand for road use.
Or to put it another way:
Previous and current EU polic...
more IBM and Saudi Arabia team up on green nano-tech labFrom: greenbang.com
Post Date: 2008-03-05 03:08:18
Imaging having a shedload of tiny robots to do your bidding. A fabulous idea, is it not?
Now the Saudis have an idea to do precisely that, and have enlisted IBM to help them out. Rather than world domination, as tiny robots might be more suited to, Greenbang would argue, IBM and King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology - the Saudi Arabian national research and development organisation - are launching a green nanotech lab.
IBM and Saudi engineers will work together on nano-science a...
more How to earn money from your roofFrom: greenbang.com
Post Date: 2008-03-05 02:06:41
As a youth, Greenbang had a brief flirtation with trying to top up her pocket money by washing the neighbourhood’s windows. She got as far as those in her own home, decided it was a mug’s game and went off to watch Neightbours instead. But for a bit of application, Greenbang tells herself, she could be the next Richard Branson, albeit less hirsuite and a bit less familiar with the comings and goings of Ramsay Street.
If only Labour had been around in Greenbang’s youth, th...
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