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Keiron Durant Wins Two National Awards for Alternative Fuel Research

Keiron Durant, an honors chemical engineering senior, has won two national awards for his research on alternative fuels.

30 Oct 2013

UCLA Report Explores Impact of Plastic Marine Litter and Offers Policy Recommendations

Plastic litter is one of the most significant problems facing the world's marine environments. Yet in the absence of a coordinated global strategy, an estimated 20 million tons of plastic litter enter the ocean each year.

30 Oct 2013

Stanford Faculty Receive 11 Seed Grants for Early-Stage Energy Research

Stanford University's Precourt Institute for Energy, the Precourt Energy Efficiency Center and the TomKat Center for Sustainable Energy have awarded 11 seed grants totaling $2.2 million for promising new research in clean technology and energy efficiency.

30 Oct 2013

Premier's Subsidiary, Energy Efficiency Experts (E3) Expands its Powerful Lighting Solutions Platform

Premier Holding Corp. today announced that through an exclusive employment agreement it has added the resources, client lists, distributor agreements, and existing business relationships of AEON Green Energy Solutions through its subsidiary, Energy Efficiency Experts ("E3"). With these added resources, E3 continues to expand its Energy Efficient Lighting Solutions Platform.

30 Oct 2013

Entropex Receives Gold Award at Recycling Council of Ontario Gala Awards Night

At the annual Recycling Council of Ontario Gala Awards Thursday night, Entropex, a leading plastics recycler, received this year's Gold award for excellence in waste reduction.

30 Oct 2013

Renewable Energy Group Opens Biodiesel Refinery in Mason City

Renewable Energy Group® held a ribbon cutting ceremony to formally open their recently acquired biodiesel refinery in Mason City, Iowa and announced it has begun a $20 million project to upgrade the plant to a multi-feedstock facility.

29 Oct 2013

Global Bioenergies Reaches Main Milestone in License Option with Major US Industrial Group

Global Bioenergies announces today having reached the main milestone in a license option signed in 2010 with a Fortune 500 US-based industrialist.

29 Oct 2013

Major Biological Extinction 93.9 Million Years Ago Associated With Warm, Oxygen-Poor Ocean

Oxygen in the atmosphere and ocean rose dramatically about 600 million years ago, coinciding with the first proliferation of animal life. Since then, numerous short-lived biotic events — typically marked by significant climatic perturbations — took place when oxygen concentrations in the ocean dipped episodically.

29 Oct 2013

Mobile DNA Extraction Kit Helps Haiti Compost Human Waste

What does the coastal community of Bolinas, California have in common with the impoverished island nation of Haiti? The surprising answer is a fledgling sanitation strategy whereby human waste is composted into nutrient-rich fertilizer, all supported by research from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory scientist Gary Andersen.

29 Oct 2013

Global Water Technologies to Participate at International Water Week

Global Water Technologies will present at International Water Week in Amsterdam on November 4-6 where 'Integrated water solutions for a green economy' will be the topic for an expected 25,000 water industry professionals.

29 Oct 2013

BNL Scientist Wins Kenneth T. Whitby Award for Outstanding Contributions to Aerosol Science

Jian Wang, an atmospheric scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, has been awarded the Kenneth T. Whitby Award in recognition of his outstanding technical contributions to aerosol science and technology. The award honors Wang for developing and implementing new techniques for measuring concentrations and size distributions of tiny particles in Earth's atmosphere and assessing their impact on the formation of clouds and Earth's climate.

29 Oct 2013

Chevron Energy Solutions Receives Contract for Energy Efficiency and Solar Power

On October 15, 2013, the school board of the Lucia Mar Unified School District (San Luis Obispo County, CA) awarded Chevron Energy Solutions a contract to design and develop an innovative program which will include solar energy systems, energy efficiency measures and improved lighting components that are estimated to save the district over $40 million, or about $20 million after paying all program costs over the 30-year project life.

28 Oct 2013

Liberty Power to Donate Renewable Energy Certificates to 2013 NMSDC Event

Liberty Power, the nation's largest independent retail electric supplier, announced today that it will donate Green-e Energy Certified renewable energy certificates (RECs) to match 100 percent of the estimated electricity consumption at the 2013 National Minority Supplier Development Council (NMSDC) Conference and Business Opportunity Fair.

28 Oct 2013

SPI 2013 Features New Taiwanese Solar Power Solutions

Executives of leading photovoltaic (PV) technology makers in Taiwan – the second largest manufacturer of PV cells in the world – announced a variety of new developments this week at a press conference at the Solar Power International 2013 exhibition in Chicago.

28 Oct 2013

NASA Satellite Data Reveals Antarctic Ozone Hole Bit Below Average in 2013

The ozone hole that forms each year in the stratosphere over Antarctica was slightly smaller in 2013 than average in recent decades, according to NASA satellite data.

28 Oct 2013