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Seminole Electric Issued RFP to Identify Potential Renewable Energy Sources

Tampa, Florida-based Seminole Electric Cooperative Inc., has issued a request for proposals (RFP) to identify potential sources of renewable energy.

2 May 2008

Making LCDs Even Better in the Future and Have a Lighter Carbon Footprint

The LCD TV Association, a global, not-for-profit, marketing trade association formed to help the entire LCD supply chain, retail channel and consumers, recently launched its GreenTV logo program to help focus LCD TV manufacturers and brands on reducing the power consumption of LCD TVs and raising consumer awareness.

2 May 2008

New Range of Eco Shower Fittings Saving Up to 75 Percent Water

Mira Showers has launched a new range of Eco shower fittings which can save up to 75% of the water normally used when showering - so you can go green whilst keeping clean!

2 May 2008

Chance to Learn How to Make Homes Greener

Londoners will have another chance to learn how to make their homes greener as the London Development Agency's eco-house will be one of the main attractions at this year's Grand Designs Live at Excel.

2 May 2008

Producing Concrete Building Materials using Polymer Waste

Recycling has been around for ages, but it wasn't until the 1970s that drop-off recycling centres emerged, and the late 1980s that doorstep collection began. While the existing recycling process is crucial to dealing with the growing amount of waste we produce, researchers are looking for alternative solutions.

2 May 2008

Proposed 2012 EU CO2 Legislation will Reward Cost-Effective Lightweighting

At the IMechE "Lightweighting for carbon-free vehicles" conference, which took place on 23rd April at the Jaguar Assembly Plant in Birmingham, Professor Jon King, Director of Corus Automotive Engineering, explained that steel continues to remain the preferred body structure material for vehicle construction, used in 99% of all new cars in 2007.

2 May 2008

Oxygen in Tropical Oceans is Declining

Marine Scientists have made an alarming new discovery. In some regions of the world oceans, oxygen essential for marine organisms is declining.

1 May 2008

Cost-Effective Solar Energy Tracking Provides Increase in Energy Production

Energy Innovations, Inc., manufacturer of commercial solar products that maximize usable energy from the sun, announced today the immediate availability of RayTracker(TM) GC, a single-axis, solar tracker for ground-mount and carport-mount applications that maximizes the energy yield of a photovoltaic system.

1 May 2008

Ormat Technologies and Montana-Dakota Utilities to Build a 5.3 MW Recovered Energy Generation Facility

Ormat Technologies, Inc. and Montana-Dakota Utilities Co. announced today that the two companies entered into an Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) agreement to build a 5.3 MW recovered energy generation facility to be located on the Northern Border Pipeline Company's (Northern Border) compressor station in Morton County, North Dakota.

1 May 2008

Averox Installs Wind and Solar Powered Generators for Telecom Base Stations

Averox Inc. today announced that it has added the provision and installation of wind and solar powered generators for telecom base stations to its telecom services portfolio.

1 May 2008

Kopin Awarded Solar Cell Development Contract from NASA

Kopin Corp., the world's leading provider of heterojunction bipolar transistor (HBT) wafers for cellular phones and wireless local area networks, today announced that it has been selected for the award of a $600,000 solar cell development contract from NASA.

1 May 2008

Securian Center has Earned EPA's Prestigious ENERGY STAR

Securian Center in downtown St. Paul, MN has earned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) prestigious ENERGY STAR, the national symbol for superior energy efficiency and environmental protection.

1 May 2008

The Economic and Health Benefits of Public Investment in Clean Water and Water Infrastructure

The U.S. Conference of Mayors convened today in New York City a joint meeting of the Mayors Water Council and the Municipal Waste Management Association, an environmental affiliate of the Conference, to examine new information on the economic and public health benefits of local government investment in municipal water and sewer infrastructure and services.

1 May 2008

Hundreds of Carbon Reducing Ideas on Display

Homeowners interested in lowering electricity bills and gardeners interested in growing organic fruit and vegetables will find the Chicago Botanic Garden filled with these and hundreds of other carbon-reducing ideas at the Garden's "Knowledge and Action" marketplace, June 5th.

1 May 2008

Fewer Caribou Calves are Dying in West Greenland as a Result of a Warming Climate

Fewer caribou calves are being born and more of them are dying in West Greenland as a result of a warming climate, according to Eric Post, a Penn State associate professor of biology.

1 May 2008