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2008 AlwaysOn Going Green 100 Awards

Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) and its Global Network of Funds, the most active global cleantech investors, today announced that fifteen of their portfolio companies were recognized as finalists in the AlwaysOn 2008 Going Green 100 Awards

10 Sep 2008

Portable Light Project Wins Technology Award

A groundbreaking renewable energy project directed by Sheila Kennedy, professor of the practice of architecture at MIT and principal of KVA MATx in Boston, has won an international award for technology that benefits humanity

9 Sep 2008

Earth Animal Found to be Able to Survive the Freezing, High Radiation, Vacuum of Deep Space

New research shows that some animals are able to do away with space suits and can survive exposure to open-space vacuum, cold and radiation

8 Sep 2008

Fishing For Energy Project Takes Abandoned Fishing Equipment and Turns It Into Electricity

“Fishing for Energy,” an innovative partnership to recycle fishing equipment into energy, has expanded to Newport, Rhode Island

8 Sep 2008

Bacteria in Compost Could Provide 10 Percent of Transport Fuel for the UK

Bacteria found in compost heaps able to convert waste plant fibre into ethanol could eventually provide up 10percent of the UK's transport fuel needs

8 Sep 2008

Managing Forests as Carbon Storage Solutions to Offset Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Scientists who have determined how much carbon is stored annually in upper Midwest forests hope their findings will be used to accelerate global discussion about the strategy of managing forests to offset greenhouse gas emissions

8 Sep 2008

Large Hadron Collider Will Not Destroy The World

A new report published on Friday, 5 September, provides the most comprehensive evidence available to confirm that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)'s switch-on, due on Wednesday next week, poses no threat to mankind

8 Sep 2008

WWF Fails Performance of Australian Carbon Emitters

Some major Australian power generators are doing next to nothing to prepare for a low-carbon future, according to a new report from WWF-Australia

8 Sep 2008

Bosch Growing Green Technologies With New Research Facilities

The Bosch Group, a leading German global supplier of technology and services, establishes their Asia-Pacific regional headquarters for Research and Advance Engineering in Singapore

8 Sep 2008

Understanding the Connection Between Climate Change and Aerosols

A group of scientists affiliated with the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) have proposed a new framework to account more accurately for the effects of aerosols on precipitation in climate models

8 Sep 2008