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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

Digital EcoStart from KONE and Power Efficiency Corporation to Bring Increased Energy Efficiency to Escalators

The KONE EcoStart is a unique motor efficiency controller that incorporates Power Efficiency’s proprietary E-Save Technology to improve the efficiency of electric motors in escalators. The EcoStart is a complete motor control device that soft starts a motor, bringing it from rest to full speed, and then protects the motor from adverse conditions, such as voltage and amperage spikes

22 Jun 2009

NASA Technology Used to Increase Energy Efficiency

Power Efficiency Corporation, a clean tech company focused on energy efficiency technologies for electric motors, announced today that the National Aeronautical and Space Administration (NASA) has created a video about the development of Power Efficiency’s energy saving technology, its roots in NASA research, and its importance for the nation’s climate and energy challenges

22 Jun 2009

Siemens Expecting Economic Stimulus Packages to Bring Them €15 Billion Including €6 Billion in Cleantech

Siemens expects to win new orders of around €15 billion in the next three fiscal years 2010 until 2012, which will be generated by government stimulus programs already announced around the world. Green technologies are expected to account for 40 percent or approximately €6 billion of this total

22 Jun 2009

Efficient Vehicles, Environmentally Friendly Packaging and Renewable Plastics Part of the Big Picture from DuPont Performance Materials

2009 is a milestone year for the DuPont Performance Materials (DPM) platform in responding to today's global mega trends - particularly in addressing the need to reduce energy and environmental footprints in important end-use markets

22 Jun 2009

Schneider Electric Bring Electricity to Madagascan Village Through its BipBop Program

On May 27, Schneider Electric presented an off-grid solar photovoltaic facility to local officials in Marovato, on Madagascar’s east coast, as part of its in-house BipBop energy access program for people at the bottom of the pyramid

22 Jun 2009

Hybrid Solar Powered LED Street Lights Launched

Visible Light Solar Technologies launched the company and its inaugural Vector line of hybrid solar/LED (Light-emitting Diode) lighting solutions aimed at retrofitting or replacing the US's over 100 million outdated street light, parking lot and commercial and industrial lighting fixtures

21 Jun 2009

Energy Efficiency Improvements in Commercial and Industrial Buildings With Siemens and OSRAM

Siemens is with its divisions Building Technologies and OSRAM the only supplier in the market to offer customers a comprehensive portfolio for the reduction of energy costs in buildings used for commercial and industrial purposes

19 Jun 2009

Taxibot To Allow Aeroplanes to Taxi With Engines Off To Maximise Aircraft Energy Efficiency

Airbus has signed a MoU with IAI to jointly explore and develop application of IAI's proposed new tow-bar-less tractor concept known as "Taxibot". The Taxibot is expected to completely remove the need to turn on the aircraft's main engines during taxi

18 Jun 2009

We Can Win The Climate Change Fight But Will Need New Technologies and a Completely New Energy System by 2050

VTT just published a book entitled 'Energy Visions 2050'. The scenarios described in the book suggest that new technologies coupled with close international climate co-operation could enable us to mitigate climate change, but success will be dependent on renewal of the entire energy system by the year 2050

18 Jun 2009