Green building continues to gain momentum as it demonstrates numerous opportunities to improve the impacts of buildings on the environment and health. To acknowledge this growing trend and EPA's expanded role in it, EPA has released a new video on green buildings in its Green Scene series.
American Superconductor Corporation, a leading energy technologies company, today announced that it has received a $450 million order from Beijing-based Sinovel Wind Corporation Limited for core electrical components for 1.5 megawatt (MW) wind turbines.
Suntech Power Holdings Co., Ltd., one of the world's leading manufacturers of photovoltaic (PV) cells and modules, today announced it will introduce its Just Roof(TM), Light Thru(TM) and QuikSnap building integrated PV (BIPV) products from Suntech's MSK Solar Design Line(TM) to the European market at the upcoming Intersolar Technology Trade Fair 2008. Intersolar will be held from June 12-14, 2008 at The New Trade Fair Centre in Munich, Germany
Powered by lithium-ion batteries from Johnson Controls-Saft, the demonstration fleet will examine the future of PHEVs as part of a complete vehicle, home and grid energy system. The fleet is the result of an ongoing collaboration among Ford, Johnson Controls-Saft, Southern California Edison (SCE) and Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI).
Today, the Food Before Fuel Campaign - a partnership of more than 20 environmental, retail, hunger, Hispanic and food industry groups - launched a cooperative effort urging Congress to revisit the nation's food-to-fuel policies, a key factor in the growing global food crisis.
Marine bacteria have the capacity to take up and capture carbon dioxide with the help of sunlight. This has been discovered by researchers at Kalmar University in Sweden in collaboration with colleagues in Spain, Australia, and Russia. The finding is being published in the internationally respected scientific journal PNAS.
At a ceremony at Imperial College London, Qatar's Deputy Premier and Minister of Energy and Industry, His Excellency Abdullah Bin Hamad Al-Attiyah, Ms. Linda Cook, Executive Director of Royal Dutch Shell plc, Dr Tidu Maini, Executive Chairman of Qatar Science + Technology Park (QSTP), and Sir Roy Anderson, Rector Elect of Imperial College London launched a joint research collaboration that will focus on further understanding carbonate reservoirs, which constitute the vast majority of hydrocarbon reservoirs across the Middle East, and CO2 storage.
To meet the needs of the fast-growing photovoltaic (PV) solar energy market, DuPont today announced that it will expand production of DuPont(TM) Solamet(R) thick film metallization pastes at its Electronic Materials DuPont Dongguan Ltd. (EMDD) facility here.
Duke Energy Carolinas is proposing a $100 million plan to install electricity generating solar panels at up to 850 North Carolina sites including homes, schools, stores and factories.
Conventional wisdom assumes 'green' products also are boring, bland ... or worse ... downright ugly. Guess what: Conventional wisdom is misguided.
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