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ICSC Adopts BREEAM as Pan-European Sustainability Standard of Choice

The International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) has adopted BREEAM as their pan-European sustainability standard of choice, ahead of other international environmental assessment methodologies.

29 Apr 2008

Solarize the U.S. Landscape

DOE photovoltaic funding for years has gone to programs that promise more efficient conversion of sunlight to electricity, or in aiding solar start-up companies. It's called "technology push."

29 Apr 2008

Connections Between Atmospheric CO2 and the Breakdown of Minerals in Earth’s Crust

Over millions of years carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere have been moderated by a finely-tuned natural feedback system- a system that human emissions have recently overwhelmed.

29 Apr 2008

Providing Emission Control Components to Local Chinese Vehicle Manufacturers

Equicap, Inc. has announced that its wholly owned subsidiary Usunco Automotive has started to provide advanced Diesel Oxidation Catalyst (DOC) technology to Chinese tier-one automobile and off-road vehicle manufacturers.

29 Apr 2008

Babcock Power Signs Agreement to Pursue Development and Commercialization of TIPS Technology

Babcock Power Inc. of Danvers, Massachusetts and ThermoEnergy Corporation, announce the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding as a prelude to the formation of a joint effort to commercialize the Company’s zero air emission power plant design called ThermoEnergy Integrated Power System.

29 Apr 2008

Clean Diesel’s Purifier System Reduces Diesel Particulate Matter by 76 Percent

Clean Diesel Technologies, Inc., the cleantech emissions reduction company, and Skanska, one of the world's leading construction groups, today announced the successful deployment of Clean Diesel's Purifier System based on its patented catalyzed wire mesh filter (CWMF) technology on Skanska cranes being used for the construction of a new water filtration facility in Croton, NY, a source of drinking water for Manhattan and the Bronx.

29 Apr 2008

A Step Closer to Turning Plants into Biofactories

Australian researchers are a step closer to turning plants into 'biofactories' capable of producing oils which can be used to replace petrochemicals used to manufacture a range of products.

29 Apr 2008

World's Best Protection from Moisture and Oxygen

A breakthrough barrier technology from Singapore A*STAR's Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE) protects sensitive devices like organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) and solar cells from moisture 1000 times more effectively than any other technology available in the market, opening up new opportunities for the up-and-coming plastic electronics sector.

29 Apr 2008

Ohio Becomes 26th State to Adopt Renewable Energy Portfolio Standards

In a unanimous vote, the Ohio legislature has passed a new bill requiring 12.5% of Ohio's energy be generated from renewable sources like wind and solar. Ohio now becomes the 26th state, including California, New York and Texas, to adopt renewable energy portfolio standards (RPS) -- tough new laws which are creating one of the most dramatic shifts in the delivery of energy to American consumers ever.

29 Apr 2008

The First Real-Time Energy and Operational Efficiency Solution for Data Centers

SynapSense(TM) Corporation, a leading provider of wireless instrumentation solutions, today introduced SynapSoft(TM) 4.0 featuring LiveImaging(TM) that provides the world's first real-time images of data center conditions for optimizing cooling, power and operational efficiencies.

29 Apr 2008

Cornell to Feature INSTEON Home Automation Solution in 2009 Solar Decathlon

SmartLabs, Inc. announces that Cornell University has chosen INSTEON® home automation technology as an integral piece of their home build in the 2009 Solar Decathlon at the National Mall in Washington, DC, fall of 2009.

29 Apr 2008

Company's Environmental Research Efforts Deepen with New Power Aware Program

As part of its Sustainable Computing Program, Microsoft Corp. today announced it will support four academic research projects focused on energy efficiency in computing in the areas of datacenter power efficiency, power management and the creation of parallel computing architecture with decreased power demands.

28 Apr 2008

Pulstar Pulse Plugs Add Fuel Economy to hybrid vehicles.

Recent tests performed at Enerpulse, Inc. demonstrate that its newly released product, Pulstar(TM) improved fuel economy on 2005 and 2007 Toyota Prius hybrid vehicles by 6% - 8%, or approximately 3 miles per gallon.

28 Apr 2008

In America, Even the Smallest Footprints are Large

Whether you live in a cardboard box or a luxurious mansion, whether you subsist on homegrown vegetables or wolf down imported steaks, whether you're a jet-setter or a sedentary retiree, anyone who lives in the U.S. contributes more than twice as much greenhouse gas to the atmosphere as those living in the rest of the world.

28 Apr 2008

Weather Forecasts and Predictions of Carbon Cycle and Climate

MIT Professor Dara Entekhabi will lead the science team designing a NASA satellite mission to make global soil moisture and freeze/thaw measurements, data essential to the accuracy of weather forecasts and predictions of global carbon cycle and climate.

28 Apr 2008