New guidance on the cost-effective design and construction of sustainable, low carbon supermarkets demonstrates how the operational carbon emissions of a typical supermarket building can meet the requirements of Part L 2010 without the need for renewable energy technologies.
PPG Industries (NYSE:PPG) announced that SOLARBAN(R) R100 glass, SUNGATE(R) 400 glass and CLARVISTA(TM) shower glass have earned CRADLE TO CRADLE(R) Certification at the Silver tier.
DuPont received the 2010 Premio ECO Award in the Sustainability in Products category for its role in a closed loop recycling process for agrochemical multilayer bottles. DuPont Latin America President Eduardo W.Wanick accepted the award during an international ceremony here last Friday.
From sun to water, from photovoltaic energy to hydroelectricity: international vertically-integrated photovoltaic provider, Silfab SpA, is expanding its scope of interest in renewable energy with the acquisition of 10% of the share capital of Idrofin Srl, a Padua-based developer of hydropower plants in Eastern Europe with a core business in Romania.
Scientists at the University of Bath and Tel Aviv University are working on a new project to improve the properties of plastics made from plants so that they can be used in a wider variety of products, from bottles to clothes.
Nova Scotia is another step closer to cementing its reputation as the leading tidal energy site in the world. The government of Canada is contributing $20 million for the Fundy Ocean Research Centre for Energy (FORCE) tidal project in the Bay of Fundy, home of the highest tides in the world.
Joint development work between Takata-Petri of Aschaffenburg, Germany, and DuPont has resulted in the launch of a new grade of DuPont™ Hytrel® RS, the industry’s first renewably-sourced thermoplastic elastomer for use in airbag systems.
OnGreen, a web-based ‘green and clean’ market place, has announced a $1.4 million investment in raised from a fund that is jointly owned by Blue Marble Ventures in Los Angeles and China Southern Hong Kong Investment Ltd in Shanghai.
Picosun Oy, Finland-based global manufacturer of state-of-the-art Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) systems, takes part in Polycat, a major 2010 -2014 EU funded research project aiming at reducing the environmental footprint of chemical and phar-maceutical industries by studying methods towards creating zero-waste processes.
The results of the national elections on Tuesday and subsequent advance of Republican politicians will make it even more difficult for the U.S. clean energy industry over the coming years. However with the Governor of Massachusetts Deval Patrick being re-elected the state should not have a problem with its growing cleantech cluster.
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