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Environmental Monitoring from Miniature Sensor

European consortium developing a miniature gas sensor to detect greenhouse gases

29 Oct 2008

Green Biofuels Initiative to be Powered by Sunrise Solar

Sunrise Solar Corp today announced that it has entered into an initial agreement with the financial partners of a Brazil-based BioDiesel company to deliver solar power and heating to their first U.S. manufacturing facility

28 Oct 2008

New Miniature Sensor for Detecting Greenhouse Gases

New European consortium, led by VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, is developing a miniature gas sensor to detect greenhouse gases

28 Oct 2008

High Schoolers Testing Water Quality in New York Area

Beacon Institute for Rivers and Estuaries and Clarkson University have been awarded $1.4 million from the NSF to expand a program that will teach 9,000 New York high schoolers to design, build, test, deploy and interpret environmental sensors to monitor water quality in the Hudson and St. Lawrence

23 Oct 2008

Rural Americans Views on the Environment Divided Along Religious Lines

Reflecting the heterogeneous nature of rural America, rural Americans are divided – primarily along religious lines – on their perspectives of environmental conservation and climate change, a new brief from the Carsey Institute finds.

20 Oct 2008

America's Largest Solar Cell Manufacturing Plant Opened by SolarWorld

SolarWorld, a world leader in high quality solar power technology, today opens North America's largest solar cell manufacturing facility

20 Oct 2008

Green Earth Technologies Helps Car Owners Keep Their Cars Clean Without Harming the Environment

Green Earth Technologies, a consumer goods manufacturer producing 'G'-Branded superior performing totally green products, wants to help consumers wash their cars without polluting the earth

20 Oct 2008

Forest Residue Biomass Could Be Used to Create Clean, Cheap Electricity

Michigan's forest industry produces thousands of jobs and hundreds of thousands of tons of unused residues each year. Why not use that woody material to help generate clean electric power

20 Oct 2008

WWF Calls on European Governments Not to Allow Financial Crisis to Overcome Importance of Adressing Climate Change

WWF has launched an appeal to the French Presidency of the European Union and to all European governments not to let the financial crisis undermine the need to reach an agreement on a solid package of measures to address climate change before the end of the year

15 Oct 2008

120-Megawatt Solar Cell Manufacturing Plant to be Built by Energy Conversion Devices

Energy Conversion Devices, Inc., the leading global manufacturer of thin-film flexible solar laminate products for the building integrated and commercial rooftop markets, today announced Battle Creek, Mich., as the location for its new 120MW solar cell manufacturing facility

15 Oct 2008