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Butte College Is Now The Largest Solar Campus in California

With national attention focused on renewable energy policies, Butte College cemented its leadership in use of solar power by unveiling three new solar projects which will help the college achieve its goal of becoming a carbon neutral campus by 2015

4 Mar 2009

NASA and Cisco Team Up To Monitor Climate Change With Planetary Skin Project

NASA and Cisco Inc. announced Tuesday a partnership to develop an online collaborative global monitoring platform called the "Planetary Skin" to capture, collect, analyze and report data on environmental conditions around the world

4 Mar 2009

Siemens and Russian State Atomic Energy Corporation Sign Joint Venture to Develop New Nuclear Technologies

Siemens and the Russian State Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom today signed a Memorandum of Understanding on the creation of a joint venture in the field of nuclear energy. The joint venture plans to push ahead with further development of Russian pressurized water reactor (VVER) technology

3 Mar 2009

Super Thin Solar Panels May Be The Result of Nanotechnology Research That Has Increased the Efficiency of Electron Transport

Boston College researchers have developed a titanium nanostructure that provides an expanded surface area and demonstrates much greater efficiency in the transport of electrons that could lead to much thinner solar panels

3 Mar 2009

Starch Based Plantic Biodegradable Plastic Saving Tonnes of Carbon Dioxide

A life cycle analysis shows that every tonne of Plantic sheet purchased in place of petrochemical polymers will save up to 2.5 tonnes of carbon dioxide (the average annual emissions of a compact car) and enough energy to power 2.5 average Australian homes

3 Mar 2009

Sustainable Exterior Siding, EcoClad, Made from Recycled Paper

KlipTech, the sustainable surfaces company founded by PaperStone inventor Joel Klippert, introduces a revolutionary new exterior siding product for residential and commercial applications called EcoClad, made from FSC-certified recycled paper/wood fiber and bamboo fiber

2 Mar 2009