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AURORALIA Award for Cities Committed to Implementing Sustainable Urban Lighting

The AURORALIA award for the third year will be presented to the chosen three cities that have shown commitment in having urban lighting with novel eco-friendly solutions.

18 Aug 2011

Orange County Chapter of U.S. Green Building Council Plans Green Pilot Project

U.S. Green Building Council’s Orange County Chapter has declared its proposal about a planned pilot project to furnish a currently existing class room at Costa Mesa-located Davis Magnet School.

12 Aug 2011

ACC Honors DuPont Plant for Energy Saving Improvements and Greenhouse Gas Reductions

DuPont’s Packaging & Industrial Polymers operations site in Orange, Texas, has been honored by the American Chemistry Council (ACC), a U.S. trade association, for energy-efficiency improvements that also resulted in green house gas (GHG) reductions.

11 Aug 2011

University of Southampton Finds New Method for Smart Grid Applications

A new research performed by the researchers at the University of Southampton, has led to the development of a mechanism that incorporates computerized management facility to handle energy storage devises utilized at home thus enabling up to 16% energy savings.

11 Aug 2011

Bureau Veritas Certification Promotes New Energy Use Certification

The new worldwide energy standard ISO 50001 formulated to enhance the efficiency in the energy intake and to better the working of energy management systems has been published in June 2011.

10 Aug 2011

GE WattStation Wall Mount to Charge Electric Vehicles

Much to the delight of municipalities, parking lot owners, home builders, fleet managers and electric vehicle owners GE has declared the availability of its GE WattStation Wall Mount, a compactly built electric vehicle charging facility.

5 Aug 2011

Harvard University Receives 50th LEED Certification from U.S. Green Building Council

Harvard University declared that it has earned its 50th LEED certification awarded by the U.S. Green Building Council. The landmark achievement comprises six platinum-level projects constituting over 1.5 million FT² of offices, classrooms, libraries, dormitories and labs.

3 Aug 2011

Pedego Achieves Second Position in Electric Bike Sales

Pedego, an electric bike manufacturing company based in the USA, within a span of two years has reached the second position in total sales among the electric bike brands available in the USA and RatePoint.com has awarded it five star status.

3 Aug 2011

Teijin MSABP Wastewater Treatment Technology Saves Energy for Treating Municipal Sewage

Teijin Limited announced today that a pilot project conducted with the Japan Sewage Works Agency (JSWA) over a period of two and a half years has demonstrated the effectiveness of an energy-saving municipal sewage processing system based on Teijin’s Multi-Stage Activated Biological Process (MSABP) wastewater treatment technology.

31 Jul 2011