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Air Force Base Adopts Geothermal Heating

Geothermal heating has been used since the time of the Romans as a way of heating buildings, and now it has come to Minot Air Force Base

21 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

Study Shows How Salt Water Irrigation Works

Take an arid field riddled with salty soil. Irrigate it with salty water. Plant a salt-tolerant grass along with a salt-sucking companion plant and what do you get? If you're a Brigham Young University research team, you raise a crop that successfully replaces corn as cattle feed

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

Toilet Flushing Now Linked to Birth Defects in Wildlife

Scientists at the University of Idaho recently discovered that an active chemical in birth control pills commonly released into the environment through human urine causes cells in rainbow trout to have an abnormal number of chromosomes

14 Dec 2008

Pesticide Residues Test Results Released

The Pesticide Residues Committee today published its second quarterly 2008 report

14 Dec 2008

USC Expands Green Courses and Programs

Recognizing that a humanistic education must cover sustainability, USC expands its 'green' courses and programs

11 Dec 2008

New High Efficiency, Low Energy Light Bulb Technology from GE

Miniaturized electronics developed by GE Consumer + Industrial engineers and scientists are the enabling technology of a new covered GE Energy Smart compact fluorescent light (CFL) bulb featuring the GE Spiral CFL inside the glass bulb

11 Dec 2008

Fuel Cell Research Center Established by University of Delaware

The University of Delaware has established the Center for Fuel Cell Research (CFCR) to improve the understanding of fuel cells and address critical issues and barriers to commercialization

10 Dec 2008

Green Construction Course from University of Arkansas at Little Rock

Construction management Department at UALR offers a new course this spring teaching builders the techniques of building environmentally friendly new construction and retrofitting existing business to be more green

10 Dec 2008