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New Smart Meters Will Help Customers Monitor Electricity Usage

Having successfully tested an initial 50,000 new 'smart meters' earlier this year, Florida Power + Light Company recently began deploying a second 50,000 units to its customers in Broward County, Fla.

27 May 2008

Analysis Reinforces the Urgent need to take action on climate change

Climate change is fueling forest fires, creating water scarcity, harming animal habitats, and causing other significant changes throughout the United States that will only worsen as global temperatures increase, concludes a new federal government assessment of current and future climate change impacts.

27 May 2008

Proximity Provides an Ideal Location to Target the U.S. Solar Market

Silicon Border Science Park, located in Mexicali, the capital city of Baja California, Mexico, has been selected by Q-Cells, the world's largest solar cell manufacturer, for its next major expansion.

27 May 2008

Climate Change Group to Preserve and Protect the Environment

Sullivan + Worcester LLP announced today that it has formed a Climate Change Group to address a variety of business, legal and risk-management issues arising from the global need to preserve and protect the environment.

27 May 2008

First Sustainability Certification of its Kind in the State

Hanesbrands Inc., a leading marketer of innerwear, outerwear and hosiery apparel, today announced that it has earned the U.S. Green Building Council's sustainability certification for its Bentonville, Ark., sales office.

27 May 2008

Spectra Energy Plans to Pursue Large-Scale Carbon Capture and Storage Project in BC

Spectra Energy today announced plans to pursue a large-scale integrated carbon capture and storage (CCS) project near its existing Fort Nelson natural gas plant in northeast British Columbia (BC).

26 May 2008

Record Recycling Rates Yield Valuable Raw Materials for New Products

The California State Department of Conservation (DOC) held a press conference at the Vetrazzo manufacturing facility at Ford Point in Richmond on Wednesday, May 21, to announce the record jump in beverage container recycling for 2007.

26 May 2008

Ocean Acidification and its Impact on Biological Processes

Emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) through human activities have a well known impact on the Earth's climate. What is not so well known is that the absorption of this CO2 by the oceans is causing inexorable acidification of sea water.

26 May 2008

Breakthough in Energy Generation with Demonstration of Cold Fusion

PhysicsWorld is reporting on a Japanese breakthough in energy generation with the apparent demonstration of cold fusion in front of a gathered audience.

26 May 2008

New Green Coolant Reduces Energy Costs by up to 20 Percent

Mayan Metzler and Yoel Piotraut, owners of MyHome LLC, have introduced their newest product today as part of their ongoing efforts to make New York City green. The product, called IceCOLD, a non-toxic coolant for common air-conditioning and refrigeration systems, represents a simple way to increase energy efficiency in a home or business environment.

25 May 2008