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5-Nov-08

Mountain Nepalese villages get telemedicine

"A Nepali teacher has finally turned his dream into reality by connecting his remote mountain community to the internet." This allows trading, communications between cut off relatives and access to otherwise unreachable medical...

Category: Communications

5-Nov-08

Renewable energy needs better planning laws

Tomorrow' new "planning bill is crucial to tackling the two biggest issues the country faces today - competing in a tough global economy and delivering new green infrastructure vital for the leap to an 80% reduction in carbon...

Category: Energy sources

5-Nov-08

Government urged to improve 'feed in tariff' scheme for renewable energy

"Industry groups, trades unions and green campaigners are today calling on the government to introduce a strong system of support for renewable energy known as a "feed-in tariff"."

Category: Energy sources

5-Nov-08

New recycling scheme rewards for mobile phones

"Consumers replace roughly 18m phones a year, as they upgrade to better handsets, but a mere 20% of discarded phones are recycled"

Category: Communications

4-Nov-08

Tree fungus could provide green transport fuel

"Organism discovered in the Patagonian rainforest produces mixture of chemicals similar to diesel"


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