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Fairmont Hotels Announce Environmental Strategy for Reducing Their Carbon Footprint

Fairmont Hotels & Resorts, an environmentally progressive hotel group known for its responsible business practices, today announced a comprehensive sustainability plan to address its technology infrastructure and information technology (IT) operations

30 Jun 2009

UNEP Welcomes Green Growth Program

Achim Steiner, the head of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), today welcomed the 'Green Growth' Declaration by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) saying it underlined the way environment was rapidly being brought into the centre of economic discourse and policy-making

29 Jun 2009

Revolutionary Toilet Allows You To Cook Your Food With Your Own Poo

A new project under development in London is turning human waste into an environmentally friendly fuel for cooking

29 Jun 2009

Researchers on the Way to Creating an Artificial Leaf For Making Power From Sunlight

An international team of researchers has modified chlorophyll from an alga so that it resembles the extremely efficient light antennae of bacteria. The team was then able to determine the structure of these light antennae. This is the first step to converting sunlight into energy using an artificial leaf

29 Jun 2009

Advnaced Composite Materials Helping With Renewable Energy Generation From Wind, Wave and Solar Sources

Advanced composite materials are playing a vital role in improved design and reduced operating costs for renewable energy technologies. Research presented at the 'Composites for Energy' seminar will highlight how wind, marine and solar power could address these challenges within the renewable energy industry

29 Jun 2009

Batteries and Ultra-Capacitors for the Smart Power Grid

NanoMarkets, the leading provider of industry analysis and market and technology research services for companies competing for or interested in thin film, organic and printable electronics related markets, today announced that it has added a new report to its schedule titled, "Batteries and Ultra-Capacitors for the Smart Power Grid: Market Opportunities 2009-2016"

29 Jun 2009

Environmentally-Friendly KFC and Taco Bell Restaurant Earns LEED Gold Certification

Yum! Brands, the world’s largest restaurant company and parent of Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, KFC, has constructed the Company’s first building under the United States Green Building Council’s LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) program. Their KFC-Taco Bell restaurant in Northampton, Massachusetts has been awarded LEED Gold certification

23 Jun 2009