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Now for the world's first hybrid rubbish truck

Volvo is testing two hybrid refuse trucks in regular daily operations in Sweden by refuse collection firms Renova and Ragn-Sells.

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Wanganui firm pioneering organic engineering parts

A quest to substitute naphtha derived plastic production engineering components for organic ones is under way at Axiam, a Wanganui high precision engineer better known internationally than it is here.

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If you send more e-mail do you produce less carbon?

Research currently underway at Sun Microsystems is trying to measure the carbon footprint of individual e-mails, BusinessGreen reports.

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Waihopai attack might hurt big global warming probe

The attack on the satellite earth station at Waihope, near Blenheim, could have imperiled New Zealand participation in what many believe to be the most sensitive and complex scientific study of global...

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$200,000 grant backs computer collection scheme

A community collection scheme for keeping end-of-life home computers out of landfills has been backed by a $200,000 grant from the Government's Sustainable Management Fund.

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Capital developer creating 'first true green building'

Leading restoration developer Ian Cassells is highlighting New Zealand's "phony" approach to green building by developing the country's first office-as-a-village, which will eliminate car emissions by...

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Petrify, liquefy: New ways to bury greenhouse gas

Turn greenhouse gases to stone? Transform them into a treacle-like liquid deep under the seabed? The ideas may sound like far-fetched schemes from an alchemist's notebook, but scientists are pursuing...

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Now for the hydrogen powered cellphone

The French have invented a hydrogen powered cellphone

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Technical and supply tangles tripping up electric car plans

Technical and supply issues are standing in the way of a Government target to have hundreds of thousands of electric vehicles in use here in the next seven years.

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Comms company looks to install solar panels on customers' roofs

Cox Communications has announced initiatives to cut energy costs that include adding solar electricity to its headquarters and communications system and increasing fuel efficiency in its fleet vehicles.

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Advisory group looking at incentives for electric vehicle buyers

The Ministry of Transport's Vehicle Energy and Renewables Group (VERG) is looking at ways of creating incentives for manufacturers to bring significant numbers of electric vehicles into New Zealand.

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Funding talks underway to start New Zealand electric car industry

EXCLUSIVE: New Zealand could soon be building its own electric cars.

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Business leaders: ETS fuels delay means incentives needed to buy electric...

Business leaders yesterday welcomed a Carbon News report that Ministry of Transport officials are investigating options for incentives to encourage people to buy low-emission vehicles.

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Kitchen experiment leads to plastic bag recycling breakthrough

A kitchen experiment has led a Christchurch (New Zealand) man to a solution for one of the world's biggest environmental problems - how to dispose of the ubiquitous plastic shopping bag.

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Ace Rentals trialing clean-fuel device already subject to ConsumerNZ doubts

One of the country's car rental firms announced yesterday it is trialing a device which is says is new and cuts nitrous oxide and particulate exhaust emissions. However, it did not say the Consumers...

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Holcim researching concrete's CO2 absorption potential

Concrete's reputation as a carbon-emissions bad-boy is under review as Holcim enters the second phase of research into the capacity for concrete to absorb atmospheric CO2.

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British companies unveil £2bn carbon reduction plans

Britain's largest energy and industrial companies have announced that they are looking at the possibility of implementing a £2 billion plan to capture carbon and store it in caverns.

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Marine leeches provide clues on climate change

Elusive marine leeches in Antarctica are the focus of study on how climate change is affecting vulnerable fish species.

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Kiwi scientists eye commercial breakthrough with methane-muncher

Government scientists intend to take to market a methane-consuming micro-organism that they have identified in Rotorua's geothermal areas and which can flourish in extremely acidic conditions.

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'Missing' greenhouse gas poses problem for government's information...

Nitrogen trifluoride is a little-recognised greenhouse gas with a punch many times that of carbon dioxide. It is sometimes rated as 17,000 times greater, and it is an emissions contaminant deliberately...

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