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New Software Package Determines the Cheapest, Fastest or Most Environmentally Method of Transportation

A new software package determines the cheapest, fastest or most environmentally compatible mode of transportation

8 Sep 2008

Biodiesel Shown to Runs Equal to, if not Better than Petroleum

Propel, a leading retailer of low-carbon renewable fuels and Seattle-based The Essential Baking Company, announce the results of a joint study on the impact of replacing petroleum fuel with biodiesel in the company’s delivery fleet

8 Sep 2008

Experts Meet to Discuss Rules for Managing Fragile Polar Regions

Need for better international approach to control polar activities on agenda in Iceland

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

China to Face Decades of Flooding and Power Shortages After Earthquake

Up to 20 million people, thousands of whom are already displaced from their homes following the devastating Chinese earthquake, are at increased risk from flooding and major power shortages in the massive Sichuan Basin over the next few decades and possibly centuries

8 Sep 2008

Honda Insight Concept Hybrid Vehicle to Make Debut at Paris International Auto Show

Honda will reveal a concept version of its new small hybrid vehicle, to be named Insight, at the 2008 Paris International Auto Show

8 Sep 2008

Brookhaven Lab Buildings Achieve LEED Green Building Certification

Two buildings on the 5,300-acre site of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory have each been awarded a LEED silver rating by the U.S. Green Building Council

7 Sep 2008

U.S. Wind Industry Passes 20 000 Megawatts of Installed Capacity

The U.S. wind industry has raced past the 20,000-megawatt (MW) installed capacity milestone, achieving in two years what had previously taken more than two decades

4 Sep 2008

State-of-the-Art Pangaea Boat Sailed to New York's Battery Park to Promote Sustainable Mobility

Pangaea, the 115-foot state-of-the-art sailboat launched by South African adventurer-explorer Mike Horn, docks in New York City's Battery Park from September 4-6, 2008

3 Sep 2008

Transportation Leaders Gather To Discuss Solutions to America's Addiction to Oil

Two days in Seattle won't solve the nation's addiction to foreign oil but might be enough to give national leaders the ideas needed for an eventual cure

3 Sep 2008