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Sustainable Building Students From UC Irvine Tour The Gatsby Hollywood

University of California, Irvine students enrolled in "Developing Green and Sustainable Communities" recently toured The Gatsby Hollywood - metro L.A.'s first all solar, Certified California Green, Smarthome community

12 May 2009

Corporate America to Benefit From New Degree Delivering Skilled Green Collar Job Prospects

The University of Wisconsin-Extension is charging into the green collar job field with a bold new degree: the nation’s first online Sustainable Management bachelor's degree

12 May 2009

Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh More Energy Efficient Thanks to Sustainable Architectural Aluminum Products From Alcoa Kawneer

Alcoa announced that a range of its Kawneer architectural aluminum products are contributing to the “green” campus of the new Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC. The facility incorporates Kawneer products that maximize daylighting and thermal performance, including curtain wall, sunshades and thermally broken windows and doors

12 May 2009

Solar Photovoltaics Market in Germany Enters New Era

Research Analysts’ new report on the German Solar Photovoltaic Market defines how recent changes in the global economic climate and national political support will see the dawn of a period of intense competition as the solar photovoltaic (PV) power industry nears grid parity

12 May 2009

Sacramento's Largest Privately Owned Solar Energy Array Installed and Activated by Perpetual Energy Systems and Siemens Transportation Systems

Perpetual Energy Systems (PES), comprehensive financier of solar-powered renewable energy systems, and Siemens Transportation Systems (STS), part of the Siemens Mobility Division, announces the activation of a 1.0 megawatt (MW) solar energy installation, the largest privately owned system of its size in the city of Sacramento

12 May 2009

Global Financial Crises Eclipse Solar Photovoltaic Market Fortunes

Despite early market growth predictions, the global financial crisis has cast a shadow over the solar power sector. Research Analysts’ new report, Global Market Review of Solar Photovoltaic Power Generation, predicts an eventful few years in this sector of the renewable energy industry

11 May 2009

China Based Company, Yingli Green Energy Joins PV CYCLE Photovoltaics Recycling Program

Yingli Green Energy, one of the world's leading vertically integrated photovoltaic product manufacturers, today announced that it has become the first China-based company and the 40th member to join PV CYCLE, an organization based in Brussels, Belgium that promotes voluntary take-back and recycling of end-of-life PV modules

11 May 2009