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Future of Low Carbon Home Heating Shown Off in Eco House

Mitsubishi Electric is using Interbuild to demonstrate its comprehensive range of Ecodan residential water and space heating products which offer UK households reduced running costs from a viable and sustainable low carbon alternative to gas and oil

27 Oct 2008

New Energy Saving Building Code Introduced for Michigan Residents

A long-awaited state energy code, requiring homebuilders to use modern energy efficiency measures in new home construction, will now be in effect

26 Oct 2008

Good Design is Good Business, and Good Design is Green

Delegates to a recent conference on sustainable development heralded a recurring green urban theme: "Good design is good business, and good design is green." The group also pointed to innovative entrepreneurship in sustainable business as the cure for energy demands and an ailing US economy.

26 Oct 2008

Study to Find Grass to the Power Bioenergy Era

Cornell bioenergy plant experts are learning which field grasses are the best candidates for "dedicated energy" crops in the Northeast, considering the region's climate and soil conditions

23 Oct 2008

Oak Ridge Labs to Improve Energy Efficiency of Industry

Four Oak Ridge National Laboratory technologies to improve energy efficiency in industry have won funding from the Department of Energy’s Industrial Technologies Program

23 Oct 2008

UNSW Sets Solar Cell Efficiency Record at 25 Percent

UNSW's ARC Photovoltaic Centre of Excellence has again asserted its leadership in solar cell technology by reporting the first silicon solar cell to achieve the milestone of 25 per cent effiency

23 Oct 2008

High Schoolers Testing Water Quality in New York Area

Beacon Institute for Rivers and Estuaries and Clarkson University have been awarded $1.4 million from the NSF to expand a program that will teach 9,000 New York high schoolers to design, build, test, deploy and interpret environmental sensors to monitor water quality in the Hudson and St. Lawrence

23 Oct 2008