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CALMAC’s Ice Storage Air Conditioning System Makes Big Savings for High School

Sustainable design is being credited for saving an estimated $85,000 in electric and gas expenses for the 2007/ 2008 school year at Fossil Ridge High School

17 Jun 2008

10 Percent of US Energy Could be Solar by 2025

A new study makes the case that solar power is emerging as a cost-effective hedge against fossil fuels and is likely to reach cost parity with retail-electricity rates in most regions of the U.S. in less than a decade

17 Jun 2008

Green Printing Technologies to be Showcased at the Sustainability in Printing Conference

RISO, Inc., a leading manufacturer of high speed color printers and duplicators, today announced that it will showcase its environmentally-friendly printing solutions at the upcoming Sustainability in Printing conference

17 Jun 2008

Choosing our Tomorrows, A Film Set in the Future Looks at What If Scenarios for Climate Change

Choosing our Tomorrows, is a film that explores what life could be like in 2050 through the video diaries of the same Scottish farming family as they experience three very different futures...

17 Jun 2008

North American Utility Companies and IBM to Team Up and Make Data Centers and Computer Technology More Energy Efficient

At an event attended by business leaders from North American utility companies, IBM issued a call to action between the IT and utility industry around energy efficiency, expanding IBM’s existing collaboration on Intelligent Utility Networks to include corporate consumption of energy for data centers and facilities

17 Jun 2008

IT Carbon Strategy Assessment Service From IBM Helping Their Clients Go Green

IBM has announced a new service, the IT Carbon Strategy Study, to help clients starting on their green transformation identify the most rapid areas of reduction in IT carbon emission across the infrastructure

17 Jun 2008

Pollution Prevention Award for Oak Ridge Lab

The Green Transportation Initiative at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has received a White House Closing the Circle Award, recognizing outstanding federal environmental stewardship practices

17 Jun 2008

IBM and Tokyo Ohka Kogyo Team Up to Make Solar Electricity More Affordable and Easier to Install

Tokyo Ohka Kogyo Co and IBM are collaborating to establish new, low-cost methods for bringing the next generation of solar energy products to market -- products that will be more affordable and easier to install than those available today

17 Jun 2008

Household Greenhouse Gas Emissions to be Reduced With Help of Guide to Environmental Retrofitting of Houses

UK Housing Minister Iain Wright launched a guide to tackling environmental emissions currently generated by households. He also announced that eight million Osram energy efficient light bulbs would be given out to housing association households over a 12-month period beginning in September 2008

17 Jun 2008

Efficient LED Lighting Systems Developer Named Inventor of the Year

Famed inventor Dean
Kamen presented the 35th Annual National Inventor of the Year Award to Dr.
Ihor Lys of Color Kinetics (now Philips Solid State Lighting Solutions) at
the Old Patent Office building in Washington last week

17 Jun 2008