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Wind Power Project Helps Meet Renewable Energy Goals

Avista has acquired the rights to develop a 50-megawatt (MW) wind farm near Reardan, Wash. taking an important step in implementing the company's 2007 Electric Integrated Resource Plan (IRP). The plan identified the acquisition of 300 MW of wind by 2017.

9 May 2008

Siemens Energy Awarded Largest Wind Turbine Orders

Siemens Energy has been awarded one of its largest wind turbine orders ever. FPL Energy has ordered 218 Siemens wind turbines to be installed at several wind farms across the U.S. for delivery in 2009. The Florida-based energy provider is the largest operator of wind farms in the United States with 56 projects in 16 states currently in operation.

8 May 2008

Ponds Capture Carbon in Two Main Ways

Research led by Iowa State University limnologist, or lake scientist, John Downing finds that ponds around the globe could absorb as much carbon as the world's oceans.

8 May 2008

Global Sustainability Initiative will Reduce Corporation’s Carbon Footprint

Millipore Corporation, a Life Science leader providing technologies, tools and services for bioscience research and biopharmaceutical manufacturing, today announced a global Sustainability Initiative - an ambitious effort aimed at reducing the company's environmental impacts and carbon footprint by 20 percent over five years.

7 May 2008

No-Tillage Farming Offers Plenty of Benefits Regarding Soil and Environmental Health

The potential of no-tillage (NT) soils for increasing the soil organic carbon (SOC) pool must be critically and objectively assessed. Most of the previous studies about SOC accrual in NT soils have primarily focused on the surface layer (<20-cm soil depth), and not for the whole soil profile.

7 May 2008

Farmland Dust Cloud From the Ukraine Detected in Germany for the First Time

Fallow agricultural land and steppe-formation processes are evidently capable of having a much greater effect on global air quality than was previously assumed.

6 May 2008

Exploring the Opportunities for Production of Cellulosic Biofuel

The Energy Biosciences Institute, the world's largest public/private consortium dedicated to the application of biosciences to the energy sector, has announced an initial set of 49 research projects for funding during the first year of EBI's 10-year program.

6 May 2008