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Leading international renewable energy consultancy group Natural Power has signed a framework agreement with Welsh based ecology consultants, Ecology Matters. This agreement widens Natural Power’s resource and expertise in onshore and offshore wind farm ecology issues, allowing the companies to work together in order to further develop their respective and mutual expertise.
Natural Power’s Welsh office in Aberystwyth has consented 40MW in Wales and has another 346MW in planning as well as wor... [more]
A Liverpool man who went from unemployed to green entrepreneur is celebrating a successful year of expansion.
Ray Bowen from Aigburth launched Merseyside recycling firm Green Deeds Ltd in 2010 after a year without a job.
Over the past year the firm has tripled its customer base and now diverts over two tonnes of recyclable materials each week away from landfill sites.
Ray, 26, launched the business with support and advice from leading Merseyside business start up organisation ELECT.
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Armed with umbrellas and wellies, thousands of Glastonbury festival-goers head to the Somerset site which is almost as famous for its downpours and quagmires as it is for the impressive line-up of stars. Muddy fields may be part of the Glastonbury experience, but revellers at the festival can look forward to being clean and green thanks to a sustainable heating company providing zero carbon hot water showers.
No matter what the weather holds, Organic Energy has joined forces with eco-charity ... [more]
Within the UK we are using three planets worth of resources and we all need to change our behaviour and lifestyle to achieve the long term vision of a One Planet Borough by 2025.
Since being established in December 2009, the One Planet Sutton project has already brought over £3m investment into the borough so far and the council is now urging other local authorities to follow in its footsteps to reduce carbon emissions. External funding for the project has been used to deliver a range of free... [more]
Alderville First Nation, a First Nation community within Southeastern Ontario, and Silfab Ontario Inc. have signed a contract to supply and support a 5 MW ground mounted solar photovoltaic (PV) system, composed of 20,410 modules.
The ground mounted system, will use the Silfab SLA245M high-efficiency modules made from 60 mono-crystalline high efficiency silicon cells produced in Ontario in accordance with the Ontario Feed In Tariff program domestic content requirements.
The solar farm, cons... [more]
At the start of 2011, a two-child family will be selected to start living a "One Tonne Life" in a newly built detached house just outside Stockholm. Coming down to one tonne per person is a tough challenge, bearing in mind that the annual world average is about seven tonnes.
ICA and Siemens have joined ‘One Tonne Life’ as industry partners – a world-unique test in which a family with children will try to reduce their carbon dioxide emissions to one tonne per person per year.
ICA will be re... [more]
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