Despite price hikes, energy supply in the UK is increasingly precarious. Are brownouts in the future?

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McDonald’s has decided it will serve chicken sourced within the United Kingdom after all during this summer’s Olympics in London.

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McDonald’s was granted an exemption to London’s local food sourcing goals and therefore will only source 10 percent of the chicken it processes from British farmers.

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Unilever, the food and consumer packaged goods giant, branched out its United Against Waste campaign to its North American division.

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Eight19 announced Kickstart, a program that funds pay-as-you go solar energy in poor dual areas, this week at the World Future Energy Summit in Abu Dhabi.

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Dow Chemical’s new Performance Plastics Division has stepped in with funding for the 2012 London Olympic’s stadium wrap. But is it really “sustainable?”

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In the United Kingdom town of York, the Nestle plant that churns out over a billion Kit Kats and 183 million guilt-inducing Aero bar annually has achieved a zero waste milestone four years early.

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The Redditch Council wants to warm its Abbey Stadium sports center, including its swimming pool, heat from its neighboring crematorium. By the transfer of heat from the crematorium’s incinerators to a system that would warm the sports and leisure facility, the town estimates that it could not only conserve energy, but save about UK£14,000 (about US$23,000).

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WhipCar pairs “sensible drivers with spare car time.” The cost is free for car owners, and the grunt work is done by WhipCar, which checks with the drivers’ license registry to assure the owner that his or car won’t end up across the Channel. Owners receive email and text notifications about the blokes who want to borrow their cars, and can proceed or decline as they wish.

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The Bio-Bug for now is a flex-fuel 2-liter Volkswagen Beetle convertible that the GENeco’s engineers, based in the UK, modified to run on conventional gasoline.

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Like many governments on both sides of the pond, the UK has ambitious renewable energy goals but is struggling trying to meet them. One issue is wind: Britain receives a good share of it, but has struggled building small-scale wind farms because local councils have resisted, choosing to keep the view.

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You wouldn’t guess it from its cloudy skies or lush parks and gardens, but London in recent years has become a water-stressed city.  The city suffered a drought four years ago that brought water rationing to some of its neighborhoods, and its old system of pipes that date back to Victorian times are not helping [...]

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Water is becoming the new carbon.  A few years ago, the green business community was focused on carbon offsets, carbon markets, and of course, CO2 in the atmosphere.  Great Britain, particularly London, has been suffering from drought the last eight months, and with droughts ravaging lands from Australia to California, more business leaders and public [...]

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We are becoming more aware that air travel has a detrimental effect on air quality and is a significant contributor to global greenhouse gas emissions.  The question of mitigating air travel has no easy answers, especially since discount air travel has surged in Europe over the past several years.  Nevertheless, one UK firm is tackling [...]

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