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Paris Heads List of French Cities to Turn Off The Lights For Earth Hour

Paris heads a list of 28 French cities and towns intending to join the world in making a visual vote for decisive action on climate change during WWF's Earth Hour 2009

9 Feb 2009

CertainTeed Ceiling and Insulation Products Used In Comcast Center, United States' Tallest Green Office Building

Towering over the Philadelphia skyline at an amazing 58 stories (975 feet), the city's new Comcast Center is a high-performance sustainable building, with an abundance of features that will conserve energy and reduce impact on the environment

9 Feb 2009

NYSERDA Helping New Yorkers Cut Power Use and Expense

NYSERDA is educating New Yorkers on new ways to save energy by using specific tools and implementing simple energy-saving actions in their homes through a new initiative called Power Management. Power Management uses technology combined with behavior changes to reduce energy consumption

8 Feb 2009

Renewable Energy Tax Credits Named as the Best Way to Fight Sea Level Rises

Proposed Renewable Energy 401(k) Tax Credit will fight rising sea levels and growing unemployment by creating 500,000 green collar jobs. Tax credit will double annual increase of renewable energy production within three years, according to the Renewable Energy Task Force of the South Denver Chamber of Commerce

8 Feb 2009

New Book Shows the Science Behind Fuel Cell Power

The new book by John Wiley and Sons, Fuel Cells: Fundamentals (2nd edition) takes the miracle of fuels cell into the real world by introducing the basic science behind the technology

8 Feb 2009

Climate Change Records to be Set By Earth Hour 2009

With eight weeks still to go, citizens, businesses and public authorities in 375 cities across 74 countries have already committed to turning off their lights for one hour at 8.30pm on 28 March in a graphic show of support for decisive action on climate change

4 Feb 2009

Making LED Lights Meet ENERGY STAR Standards With Online Tool from Philips

Philips Lumileds has launched a free online tool that makes it easier for manufacturers of LED-based luminaires to show compliance with ENERGY STAR standards

4 Feb 2009

Halo LED Lights Meet ENERGY STAR Requirements for Solid State Lights

Cooper Lighting announces that its Halo LED recessed downlight is the first in the industry to meet stringent ENERGY STAR requirements for solid state lighting (SSL) luminaires

3 Feb 2009

Superbowl Stadium Lit By Super Bright, Energy Efficient LED Lights

Raymond James Stadium will be hosting Super Bowl XLIII. LED Source and Philips - Color Kinetics is helping illuminate the stadium with the newly launched ColorReach Powercore, one of the biggest, brightest exterior LED's in the world

1 Feb 2009

Research Aircraft Fly From the Arctic to the Antarctic to Study Greenhouse Gases

A team of scientists has successfully flown from the Arctic to the Antarctic this month aboard an advanced research aircraft, the first step in a three-year project to make the most extensive airborne measurements of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases to date

29 Jan 2009