Renewable energies

A UK energy firm has been left red-faced after encouraging Twitter users to give their views on gas price increases. British Gas announced it will

The world’s energy landscape is changing, but what will be next? This was one of the main topics during the KAZENERGY Eurasian Forum, an

Surrounded as we are by boats, water and the wind – it’s quite easy to think of ‘green’ as a sort of free-living lifestyle. But this is a serious

Renewable energy is not only essential for the well-being of the environment, it is also a legal requirement. By 2020 European states must reach a

It’s a bright sunny day off the south-west coast of Ireland. A team of local marine researchers have taken their boat out to check on their seaweed

Right under our feet there is a source of clean and efficient energy. La Fabrica del Sol in Barcelona is living proof. An old Catalan building dating

Everyone has heard of business clusters, where interconnected companies join forces in order to boost performance. The Austrian town of Graz is an

You can’t just stroll into La Ciotat’s naval shipyard. One of France’s top naval building sites up until the 1980s, it is now home to leisure boats

When it comes to my story from Sarenne, there is a before and an after. Little did I know just how much my one visit there would change the way I see

More than three million people across the EU now work in eco-industries, producing nature-friendly goods and services. It is an increasingly

Like water from a faulty tap, power leaks from all electronic devices – whether in use or not. The fact is a portion of our energy bill goes down the

The world’s biggest wind-turbine maker – Denmark’s Vestas – may be about to find help from Japan. Its share price rocketed up on Tuesday in

Meet the author of a work about staving off our own extinction: Jeremy Rifkin, who advises the European Commission. He is an American economist

The Boutique Hotel Stadthalle in the Austrian capital, Vienna has invested in sustainable resources and saving energy. It has taken advantage of an

In this edition of U-talk Fabián, in Spain, asks: “In a world whose economic model is based on oil consumption, do you as a European ecologist think

Scientists are putting the finishing touches to a new way of harvesting electricity from light.   Paul Rebhan, the Global Business Development

In Europe at least 20 percent of our food ends up as waste. While new zero-food waste policies are on their way, researchers are imagining ways

“How is Singapore planning for sustainability? We discuss the issue of energy in the cities of tomorrow with Ms Fun Siew Leng, Group Director for

Today we headed to the north of Singapore to see some sustainable housing projects- so far north in fact that our mobile phones told us “Welcome to

Energy. It is generated, consumed, and expelled. Our cities have a constant appetite for it. So how could that kind of consumption of power and

How Germany gets it power is about to radically change. The Berlin government’s recent decision to unplug all nuclear power stations is creating a

Solar panels are becoming an increasingly cheap and efficient way to produce electricity. At a research centre near Frankfurt, scientists are