About Chris Milton

Chris Milton is a seasoned sustainability journalist focusing on business, finance and clean technology. His writing's been carried by a number of highly respected publishers, including The Guardian, The Washington Post and Scientific American. You can follow him on twitter as @britesprite, where he's one of Mashable's top green tweeters and Fast Company's CSR thought leaders. Alternatively you can follow him to the shops... but that would be boring.

Website: http://www.britesprite.co.uk

Author Archives: Chris Milton

Air Quality

India Announces Its First Solar City (In Order To Protect Taj Mahal)

March 6th, 2013 | by Chris Milton

The Indian city of Agra, former capital of the Indian subcontinent and home of the Taj Mahal, is to become [&hellip

Buildings

“Crazy” Legal Action Threatens Green Deal Scheme

February 27th, 2013 | by Chris Milton

The UK’s groundbreaking £600 million Green Deal scheme is under threat after the European Union confirmed it would mount a [&hellip

Policy & Politics

Residential Commercial PV Grid Integration

PV Grid Integration Database Exposes Implementation Shortfalls

February 26th, 2013 | by Chris Milton

A major update to the PV grid integration database has taken place, shedding light on the relative ability of differing [&hellip

Buildings

The Hotel Which Floats On Sand

February 21st, 2013 | by Chris Milton

Hidden away in the Gobi Desert is “the bay of sand”, Xiangshawan. It’s a popular tourist destination for China’s newly [&hellip

Cars

Hydrogen Fuel Network In London Expands

February 15th, 2013 | by Chris Milton

A fully integrated hydrogen fuel network in London has moved a step closer with the announcement of new fuel stations [&hellip

Buildings

Phenomenal Eco-Island Designed As Home To 300,000 People

November 29th, 2012 | by Chris Milton

It’s one of the world’s greatest dreams, which must have entered the mind of any child old enough to [&hellip

Fossil Fuels

(Updated, Live Blogging) BP Admits Criminal Liability Over Deepwater Horizon, To Pay $4.5 Billion; 2 BP Employees Face Manslaughter Charges

November 15th, 2012 | by Chris Milton

Update 4:22pm EST: The two highest-ranking Deepwater Horizon BP supervisors at the time of the disaster have now been [&hellip

Nuclear Energy

Sellafield site including nuclear waste facilities

Nuclear Waste Storage Facilities “Intolerable”

November 8th, 2012 | by Chris Milton

Nuclear waste stored in run-down facilities poses an “intolerable risk;” long-term planning has faced “historic neglect” and decommissioning costs [&hellip

Clean Power

Onshore Wind Farms: A Theoretical, Middle Class, Left Wing Article Of Faith

October 31st, 2012 | by Chris Milton

Controversy has erupted in the UK after one the Government’s energy secretaries slammed onshore wind farms as “a bourgeois [&hellip

Clean Power

Renewable Energy Investment Continues To Leave North America

October 31st, 2012 | by Chris Milton

Financial woes grip the world. The American economy continues to sag, Europe teeters on the brink of collapse, and even [&hellip

Biomass

World’s First “Living Building” Uses Algae to Provide Energy and Shade

October 25th, 2012 | by Chris Milton

The world’s first ever “living building” has started construction in Germany. Known as the BIQ building, it uses moveable [&hellip

Biofuels

Magical Gas Conjured from Thin Air

October 19th, 2012 | by Chris Milton

Temperatures are rising. Not only are environmentalists getting hot under the collar, but the world is too. It’s all [&hellip

Clean Power

Power Full Jogging Shoes

September 1st, 2011 | by Chris Milton

Ever wondered, as you pound along the pavements, just how much power your jogging could be generating? Well, now we have an answer: up to a whole kilowatt during a quick sprint. This is according to Tom Krupenkin, professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Wisconsin Madison. He and a fellow researcher, J Ashley Taylor, have come up with an innovative new way of harnessing that power using liquid-based energy harvesters embedded into people's shoes