For the third consecutive year, the Green California Schools Summit and Expo will be conducted at the Pasadena Convention Center in Pasadena, California, from December 9 to 11, 2009. The Summit, which is the nation’s largest green schools conference, will focus on school gardens, green schools, recycling programs and energy efficiency retrofits.
A USDOE and USDA study concluded that 50 million U.S. acres of cropland, idle cropland, and cropland pasture could be converted from current uses to the production of perennial grasses, such as switchgrass, from which biomass could be harvested for use as a biofuel feedstock. Economically viable production of a perennial grass monoculture from which substantial quantities of biomass are removed annually is expected to require nitrogen fertilizer.
Ahead of the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, GreenProsperity, a group of environmental organizations at Ontario has come up with a plan to reduce global warming and suitable a suitable action plan to control climate change.
BARWA and Qatari Diar Research Institute (BQDRI), that focus on studies about new knowledge in sustainability and its application, and PROJACS INTERNATIONAL, the pioneer Arab company, specialized in Project/Construction Management & Training fields, announced their signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for building strong cooperation and partnership which aim to support the implementation of sustainability practices through adopting the Qatar Sustainability Assessment System (QSAS).
The publication titled, ‘Alternative fuels with heavy-duty engines and vehicles’ by Timo Murtonen and Päivi Aakko-Saksa is a report, which documents the combination of results from three projects conducted by the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland. The results discuss the data collected on emissions and the performance of heavy-duty engines and vehicles, which use hydrotreated vegetable oil, GTL diesel, CNG, ester-type biodiesel, and fossil diesel fuel.
In a rather confrontational study, a scientist from the University of Utah has argued that risks from the increasing levels of carbon dioxide emissions cannot be mitigated unless the equivalent of building a new nuclear power plant daily is accomplished.
Veolia Energy North America, a leading provider of sustainable energy services and facility operations and management solutions, is delighted to announce that it has renewed its contract with the world’s largest resort-hotel-casino, The Venetian Las Vegas. After working together on-site for the last ten years to provide heating, cooling and facility operations and management services, Veolia Energy and The Venetian have agreed to extend their relationship for an additional ten years.
The Roskilde municipality, and the Risø National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy, DTU have agreed to jointly develop and fortify sustainable energy technology development. The joint development agreement involves the integrated establishment of a sustainable business park and a test and demonstration facility called Demonstratorium.
The industry conference on bioplastics took place for the fourth time in Berlin on the 10th and 11th of November. Despite the difficult financial situation the event set a new visitor record. 380 visitors and 27 exhibitors attended the conference hosted by the European Bioplastics Association. Experts still expect continued growth in the field of compostable and biobased materials.
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