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Dow Corning Puts Billions into Solar Energy

Dow Corning Corporation announced today several billion dollars of investment to provide critical materials to the fast-growing solar technology industry

21 Dec 2008

Sustainable Building Products Brochure Published by PPG

PPG Industries has published EcoLogical Building Solutions, a new brochure highlighting its sustainable architectural glass, coatings and paint products

17 Dec 2008

No Need for Batteries in Energy Harvesting Radios for Monitoring Bridge Safety

If changing the batteries in the remote control or smoke detector seems like a chore, imagine having to change hundreds of batteries in sensors scattered across a busy bridge

17 Dec 2008

Nanotechnologies for Cleantech Report

Clean-tech investing is at an all time high and is expected to flourish in a range of sectors, including renewable and distributed energy, advanced materials, transportation, and water purification and management

17 Dec 2008

Australian Emissions Reduction Plan Branded Low, Unacceptable, Pitiful, Short Sighted and Pandering to Polluters

In the space of a year Australia has gone from climate change hero to climate change under-achiever, announcing an emissions reduction target of just 5-15 per cent by 2020

15 Dec 2008

Barack Obama Picks Berkeley Lab Director Steve Chu for Energy Secretary

President-elect Barack Obama has nominated Steve Chu, Director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), to be Secretary of Energy

15 Dec 2008

Photovoltaics Company, Konarka, Signs Deal With Oil and Petroleum Company, Total

Konarka Technologies, Inc., an innovator in development and commercialization of Power PlasticR, a material that converts light to energy, today announced the company has signed bilateral R and D and cooperation agreements with Total, one of the largest publicly-traded integrated international oil and gas companies in the world

15 Dec 2008