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Pollution Prevention Institute Launched in New York

Pete Grannis, Commissioner of New York's Department of Environmental Conservation, hosted an open house today at Rochester Institute of Technology, showcasing the New York State Pollution Prevention Institute, also known as NYSP2I

25 Aug 2008

Zipcar Car Sharing Program Comes to University of Miami Campus

Car-sharing program offers fuel efficient vehicles on demand

24 Aug 2008

Lessons Learnt Added to Code For Building Sustainable Homes

Lessons learnt by the first four developers to design and build to the Code for Sustainable Homes on the BRE Innovation Park have led to the compilation of detailed guidance in a BRE Information paper entitled Applying the Code for Sustainable Homes on the BRE Innovation Park

21 Aug 2008

Owens Corning Named Insulate America Supplier of the Year

Owens Corning announced that it was recently named Supplier of the Year by Insulate America, the largest group of locally-owned, independent insulation contractors in the United States

19 Aug 2008

New Research Assesses the Sustainability of Corn Stover as a Biofuel Crop

With oil prices skyrocketing, the search is on for efficient and sustainable biofuels. Research published this month in Agronomy Journal examines one biofuel crop contender: corn stover.

19 Aug 2008

Tree-Free Papers Come from an Abundant Renewable Sustainable Resource

Natural Source Printing (NSP), an FSC Certified and Carbon neutral source for sustainable, eco-friendly printing, packaging, and marketing materials has introduced FiberStone(TM) Papers- a line of tree-free, low carbon footprint papers. NSP has been producing labels, unit cartons, POP displays, casepacks, brochures, catalogs, annual reports and high quality pressure sensitive labels on the stone paper material.

16 Aug 2008

Solar Projects Would Supply Enough Renewable Energy for 239,000 Californian Homes

Pacific Gas and Electric Company today announced it has entered into two utility-scale, photovoltaic (PV) solar power contracts for a total of 800 megawatts (MW) of renewable energy. This significant commitment to photovoltaic technology will deliver cumulatively 1.65 billion kilowatt-hours of renewable energy annually. This would be equivalent to the amount of energy needed to serve approximately 239,000 residential homes each year.

14 Aug 2008

Carbon Neutrality Considered Feasible For California Redevelopment Project

San Diego-based real estate owner American Assets, Inc. announced today that plans for their landmark redevelopment project in Novato, Calif. show that carbon-neutrality could be achieved in less than 10 years, exceeding the performance targets of the 2030 Challenge and marking an important milestone for one of the first such efforts for a mixed-use commercial project in the United States.

12 Aug 2008

Nanotechnology Being Used to Make Antennas That Collect Heat and Produce Electricity

Researchers have devised an inexpensive way to produce plastic sheets containing billions of nanoantennas that collect heat energy generated by the sun and other sources

10 Aug 2008