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'World's most advanced' vertical farm opens in Scotland
Scottish agritech company Intelligent Growth Solutions (IGS) claims its first vertical farming facility has patented technologies to cut production costs
Microsoft's energy master plan
Ultimately, its innovations could become a big selling advantage for its cloud services
E.ON teams up with Berkeley Homes to trial smart home concept
Future Energy Home pilot will study how well smart home technologies sync with everyday life
Centrica revs up business EV charging service with Driivz deal
Energy giant joins $12m funding round in deal that will see Driivz software functionality provided to Centrica customers
Why IBM obsesses over energy efficiency
Plus, perspective on why the cloud software giant doesn't use unbundled renewable energy certificates
Tech to #endwildlifecrime: A new strand of the #techforgood story
Saving endangered species is just one of the ways technology can help improve the world, says techUK's Susanne Baker
How can a wireless network help both rhino resilience and water quality?
They're called low-power wide-area networks — LPWANs — and they're changing how we can collect data
All at sea: Microsoft trials renewables-powered underwater Orkney data centre
IT giant believes under water data centres powered by wave and tidal energy may help provide energy efficient, superfast internet browsing in future
Ben and Jerry's scoop blockchain pilot to serve up carbon-offset ice-cream
Ice cream giant partners with Poseidon to allow customers to offset carbon impact of ice cream purchase with blockchain technology
Bitcoin now uses as much energy as Ireland
Electricity consumption doubled in the last six months with the trajectory likely to continue, says PwC economist
Why data is an essential nutrient for AeroFarms crops
Urban agriculture pioneer reveals how it is working with Dell to help optimise production
#planettech - AI for sustainability
TechUK's Susanne Baker explores how the exciting world of AI could be recruited in the race to develop sustainable business models
M&S teams up with Dearman to take the climate heat out of chilled deliveries
Dearman's clean cold technology will be trialled by M&S to see if it could be suitable for nationwide use
We need to be smarter at designing 'smart cities' programmes to make urban areas greener
Too often initiatives for 'smart cities' skate over the environmental challenges, argues the EIC's Matthew Farrow
Megadrones, self-driving cars and 3D-printed buildings: Is this the low carbon city of the future?
PwC's new VR experience is aimed at preparing companies for the myriad disruptions presented by climate and technological change - BusinessGreen takes a tour
Clean tech opportunity: Government launches £1bn AI sector deal
Ministers aim to make UK an AI research hot spot as clean tech firms seek to exploit machine learning opportunities
Rewiring the workplace: How Energi Mine promises to change employee behaviour to save company cash
The start-up believes a blockchain-based reward system could be the answer to workplace energy saving - and National Rail is its first guinea pig
Meet Daisy, Apple's latest robot for recovering and reusing iPhone components
Launched this week, Daisy helps dissemble iPhones for reuse and recycling
Verv completes UK's first blockchain energy trade
Residents of the Hackney Banister House Estate sent excess solar energy from one housing block to another over encrypted trading platform
Uncle Ben's dials in augmented reality to reveal rice supply chain
Shoppers in France can use AR app to find out information on where their rice has come from
How smartphones are heating up the planet
Smart phones are rarely recycled and that's just one reason tech devices are increasing our carbon footprints, says Lotfi BelkhiR from McMaster University
Could 5G roll-out unlock the smart city?
New report from O2 argues next wave of mobile networks could deliver enormous environmental, efficiency, and cost savings
'Much work needed' to make digital economy environmentally sustainable
MPs cast doubt on whether energy efficiency gains can keep offsetting rising power demand
Don't write off Blockchain because of the Bitcoin hype
The underlying crypto-ledger technology holds major promise for the energy industry, argues Policy Exchange's Josh Burke
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