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Honeywell Now Helping Organizations Down The Road to Sustainability

Honeywell has introduced a Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Inventory service that measures and provides a comprehensive snapshot of an organization's verifiable GHG emissions

19 May 2009

World's Highest Output Lithium Ion Battery Developed

Hitachi, Ltd. and Hitachi Vehicle Energy, Ltd. which develops and manufactures lithium-ion batteries for automotive applications, such as hybrid electric vehicles, have developed a lithium-ion battery having the world's highest power density

19 May 2009

Acceleration of Smart Grid Standards Called for By GE Energy

GE announced today that Bob Gilligan, vice president of transmission and distribution for GE Energy, will be one of the select few industry executives participating in the Smart Grid Leadership Meeting in Washington, D.C

19 May 2009

Global Consumption of Ethanol Being Led By USA

Global demand for ethanol is predicted to increase annually by 9.3% over next 5 years. The United States is the largest consumer using 50% of the world’s supply, largely due to mandated production levels specified by legislation

19 May 2009

CEMEX Teams Up With World Business Council for Sustainable Development on Energy Efficiency in Buildings

CEMEX in collaboration with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and a group of leading companies in the building, equipment, and energy industries- announced the release of "Transforming the Market: Energy Efficiency in Buildings”, a new research report of the Energy Efficiency in Buildings (EEB) project

19 May 2009

Conservatory Building in UK to be Government Regulated In Effort to Meet Carbon Targets

Although the Government has suffered defeat once in 2002 with the same proposed legislation managing directory of Conservatory Quote Online.com - Stephen Giles said: "We expect the Government to be successful in 2010 as it only has 10 years to achieve the carbon emissions target and part L of the Building Regulations is the only tool they have to use."

19 May 2009

Carbon Footprint of Concrete May Be Smaller Than Originally Thought As It Reabsorbs CO2

A new study suggests that concrete reabsorbs atmospheric carbon lowering concrete's overall carbon footprint

18 May 2009

Hydrogen Fuel Cell Powered Street Cleaning Vehicle Keeping the Roads of Basel Tidy

Empa and the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) have, together with Bucher Schoerling, Proton Motor, BRUSA Elektronik AG und Messer Schweiz, developed a hydrogen powered municipal street cleaning vehicle which was presented to the public in Basel

18 May 2009

Environmental Cleanup Agreement for Radiation at High Flux Beam Reactor at Brookhaven National Laboratory

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the N.Y. State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) have agreed on a final cleanup action for the inactive High Flux Beam Reactor (HFBR) at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL)

18 May 2009

Air Fuelled Battery For A New Generation of Electric Cars, Mobile Phones and Laptop Computers

A new type of air-fuelled battery could give up to ten times the energy storage of designs currently available.This step-change in capacity could pave the way for a new generation of electric cars, mobile phones and laptops

18 May 2009