Categorised as: Clean Tech & News
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100 Irish ‘green’ hotels to get e-car charge points News
24.05.2012 ESB ecars and Fáilte Ireland are leading what they are terming a Green Hotel Drive to install ecar charge points in 100 green-accredited hotels around Ireland. -
Silicon Labs to buy Boston-based Ember for US$72m News
21.05.2012 US semiconductor company Silicon Laboratories is to acquire the Boston-based Ember Corporation for $72m. The acquisition of Ember is part of Silicon Lab’s move to enable... -
Computer reuse charity calls on companies to donate old PCs News
18.05.2012 Camara Education, the Irish charity that refurbishes computers and loads them with educational software for schools in Ireland, Africa and Jamaica, has issued a call for...Categories: Sustainability, Software, Recycling Services, R&D, Green Tech, Green Computing, Green, Consumer Tech, Computers -
Apple’s Cupertino HQ targeted by Greenpeace activists News
15.05.2012 Two Greenpeace activists today barricaded themselves in a giant Greenpeace version of an iPod outside of Apple’s Cupertino HQ in California. Why exactly? Well the tirade from...Tags: iPod, Apple, iCloud, Data centres, Cloud, Clean Energy, Yahoo!, Google, Amazon, Facebook, Cloud Computing -
Bat experts converge in Dublin to talk about windfarms News
15.05.2012 Bat experts from all over Europe, the Middle East and North Africa are at the Eurobats conference in Dublin Castle this week. They are here to discuss how to best protect bats... -
Honda tests ‘smart home’ in Japan that runs on off-grid energy News
11.05.2012 Honda has been pioneering a new type of smart home in Japan to test out its Honda Smart Home System (HSHM) technologies to control and monitor energy usage using solar power,... -
Tesla’s shares rise as Model S electric sedan to arrive in June News
10.05.2012 Tesla Motors may have just reported first quarter losses of US$89.9m, but the electric car maker also saw its shares jump yesterday after it said that it expects to start...Categories: Sustainability, Renewable Energy, Mobility, Investments, Intellectual Property, Green Tech, Engineering, Energy -
Green handset shipments may reach 392m by 2017 News
09.05.2012 Are we about to witness a massive splurge in green handsets hitting the marketplace? Juniper Research appears to think so, as its latest analysis is predicting that green...Categories: Engineering, Green, Green Tech, Intellectual Property, Mobile, Recycling Services, Sustainability -
Microsoft vows to be carbon neutral by 1 July News
09.05.2012 Microsoft is pledging to become carbon neutral from 1 July across all of its direct operations, including its data centres, software development labs, air travel, and office... -
World Congress on Water, Climate and Energy in Dublin next week News
09.05.2012 Ireland will next week host a six-day international Congress on Water, Climate and Energy that is being organised by the International Water Association. -
Energia’s new €14m wind farm to power more than 9,000 homes News
08.05.2012 Energia is finishing the build of its latest wind farm, Caherdowney, located near Ireland's Cork-Kerry border. -
Siemens reveals 'eHighway of the Future' concept in US News
08.05.2012 Siemens has revealed its plans to clean up US highways that have heavy amounts of truck traffic via its eHighway of the Future solution. -
Clean tech sector in Ireland could generate 80,000 jobs by 2020 News
07.05.2012 At least 20,000 and as many as 80,000 new jobs and a boost of €3.9bn to Ireland’s GDP by 2020 are possible if Ireland focuses on clean tech. This would require a national clean... -
Ireland's Green IFSC targets US$200bn worth of asset management News
04.05.2012 Ireland’s aim to be a global hub for ‘green finance’ could see the emerging Green IFSC eventually manage US$200bn worth of green funds, it emerged this week. -
Firms that invest in energy management avoiding €150m in costs News
04.05.2012 Irish-based businesses engaged in advanced energy management are avoiding €150m in energy costs and are setting world-class standards, the Sustainable energy Authority of... -
Nike interactive ‘green’ app lets users design eco-trainers News
04.05.2012 Sports shoe maker Nike is about to launch a new app that allows customers to design trainers made out of greener materials. -
Energy summit achieves global clean-tech commitments News
27.04.2012 Energy ministers from 23 governments and the UN Secretary-General’s Sustainable Energy for All initiative were in London this week for the Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM)....Categories: R&D, Green Tech, Green Computing, Green, Government, Energy, Education, Economy, Consumer Tech, Computers, Renewable Energy, Science, Sustainability -
Greenpeace activists target Apple stores in US and Canada News
25.04.2012 Apple may have reported incredible second-quarter revenues of US$39.2bn yesterday, but that didn’t deter Greenpeace activists, as they staged protests at Apple stores in San...Categories: Green Computing, Green, Sustainability, Servers, Renewable Energy, Multimedia, Green Tech, Data Centre, Computers -
Bord Gáis to inject €400m into wind-farm portfolio News
23.04.2012 Bord Gáis Energy (BGE) is planning to inject €400m into its wind-farm portfolio, as the company is aiming to develop a further 250MW of wind energy over the next three years,... -
Galway start-up gets €2.8m EU green tech R&D grant News
23.04.2012 Galway-based green-tech company Cellulac has been approved for a record €2.8m grant from the European Commission to commercialise its biorefining technology that converts...