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Climate Change Costs Could be Offset by Protecting Marine Resources

Protecting valuable marine resources could offset projected economic costs of climate change, according to a new WWF report issued today

8 Jun 2009

More Than 10 Million Compact Fluorescent Bulbs Handed Out By Puget Sound Energy

Puget Sound Energy announced today that the utility has now distributed more than 10 million free and discounted compact fluorescent light bulbs to its more than 1 million electric customers in Western Washington since the residential lighting program launched in 2002

8 Jun 2009

SCHOTT Announces "eco Glass" Made Without Using Arsenic or Antimony

The Electronics + Biotech profit center at SCHOTT is now launching a variety of glasses that the company calls "eco Glass" that are manufactured without adding arsenic and antimony as refining agents during the...

8 Jun 2009

Biomass Derived Bio-Oil to Replace Fossil Fuels For Heat and Power Generation

Metso and UPM have developed a new concept for the production of biomass-based bio-oil to replace fossil fuels in heating and power generation

8 Jun 2009

Green Building Now on the Curriculum at Colleges Throughout United States

Green Builder® Media announced that it has expanded the reach of its online educational platform, Green Builder® College, through a partnership with ProTrain LLC. Green Builder College’s online courses will be included in the curriculum of 135 colleges across the country

4 Jun 2009

Kodak Reveals New Sustainability Goals

Eastman Kodak Company announced today a new set of three-year Sustainability Goals. This comes on the heels of a prior program that reduced carbon emissions in an amount equal to taking 190,000 cars off the road

4 Jun 2009

Verisae Earns Greenhouse Gas Emissions Tracking Patent

Verisae, a supplier of Sustainability On-Demand software solutions, publicly announced issuance of U.S. patent number 7440871 for their invention, technical methods of implementation, and delivery of a web-based system for tracking and reporting Greenhouse Gas emissions

4 Jun 2009

Renewable Energy Power Plant For Paper Mill Starts Up Ahead of Schedule

The new renewable energy power plant at UPM’s Caledonian paper mill in Scotland has started-up successfully one month ahead of schedule

4 Jun 2009

Solterra Renewable Technologies to Fulfill U.S. Congress 'Clean Energy' Bill Mandate

CEO Stephen Squires of Solterra Renewable Technologies, said that Solterra's proprietary process for manufacturing quantum dot semiconductors, which are used in its solar cells to create electricity, positions the company perfectly to fulfill the mandates of the H.R. 2454, "The American Clean Energy and Security Act,"

4 Jun 2009

Solar Cells Become Event More Environmentally Friendly

Delivering a major step forward in sustainable solar power, Malibu today launched the world's first thin-film solar module factory that completely eliminates the use of nitrogen trifluoride (NF3), a greenhouse gas with a significant global warming potential, from the manufacturing process

4 Jun 2009