A busy day for Greenpeace.

Business

• Intel has adopted the sunflower as the emblem of its new Penryn family of processors. Intriguingly, the sunflower has the power to pull lead from the soil - just as lead has been eliminated from the new processor.
• More on the plastic bag ban in london...
• Great article on the automotive industry and the pressures it faces from BusinessGreen

Advertising

• A bizarre exchange of adverts is taking place in Kansas. Have a look here

Science

• The Telegraph reports on hydrogen power, detailing a new method that relies on bacteria in a specially designed reactor that can efficiently produce hydrogen fuel from any type of biodegradable organic matter. The faces behind the science, Dr Shaoan Cheng and Prof Bruce Logan of Penn State University, report on their findings today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. And yes, following in the footsteps of great minds before them, the name is equally as complex as the theories behind it: electrohydrogenesis.

Politics

• Greenpeace gives a heated response to the government's intention of offsetting it's flight emissions:
  "This is just plain hypocritical of the government," says Charlie Kronick. "Off-setting is a book-keeping trick that can't stop climate change, because once you've burned jet fuel at altitude there's absolutely nothing you can do to stop your emissions changing the climate. If ministers were serious about reducing greenhouse gases from aviation they'd shelve plans for new runways and airports."
  Not sure if I agreee with them about the value of offsetting, but their second point does have some validity. The govt needs to do a bit of joined-up thinking here.
• British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and his visiting Hungary counterpart Ferenc Gyurcsany pledged on Monday to work together within the European Union to bring progress on economic, environmental and security issues. In a joint statement after bilateral talks at Downing Street No.10, Brown and Gyurcsany said the enlarged EU had the opportunity to become a "genuinely global player" with the signing of the EU Treaty at the informal European Council in Lisbon last month.
• The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference of the Parties will be held soon in Bali, to discuss the post-Kyoto framework. An extensive article from ths WBCSD can be found here.
  Greenpeace have launched a video about the conference: