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Solar Energy is Expected to Take a Much More Important Position in the Future

Research and Markets has announced the addition of Solar Polysilicon Industry Report, 2007-2008 to their offering.

25 Apr 2008

Sealsafe Deliver Higher Levels of Light While Minimizing Light Pollution and Energy Costs

After more than two decades of producing the energy efficient optical system for commercial outdoor lighting, Schréder Lighting USA highlights the innovative, award-winning Sealsafe Optical Lighting System in the United States.

25 Apr 2008

Low-Carbon Electricity to Power Plug-In Hybrids

Carnegie Mellon University's Constantine Samaras and Kyle Meisterling report that plug-in hybrid electric vehicles could help reduce greenhouse gas emissions that fuel global warming, but the benefits are highly dependent on how the electricity system changes in the coming decades.

25 Apr 2008

Toyota Pledges Three-Year $1.4 Million Sponsorship of MillionTreesNYC

MillionTreesNYC, a public-private partnership between the New York City Department of Parks + Recreation and New York Restoration Project (NYRP) to plant and care for one million new trees in New York City by 2017 today announced a new supporter in its mission to improve New York City's environment.

25 Apr 2008

A New Energy Efficient and Environmentally Friendly Co-Generation Facility

Pratt + Whitney today dedicated a new energy efficient, environmentally friendly co-generation facility capable of generating about two-thirds of the site electrical energy and the majority of the steam for winter heating, summer cooling and manufacturing process equipment.

25 Apr 2008

Environmental Program Includes Classroom Instruction on Trees and Their Benefits

Nearly 20,000 elementary students in 217 schools in four states are participating this week in Dominion's Project Plant It! program, a community effort to educate children, plant trees and improve the environment.

25 Apr 2008

80 Percent Endorse Using Incentives to Promote Carbon-Free Energy Technologies

Nearly 80 percent of Americans endorse the use of federal financial incentives to help promote development of carbon-free energy technologies, including new nuclear power plants, according to a new national survey of 1,000 adults.

25 Apr 2008

Turning Citrus Fruit Waste into Ethanol

Xethanol Corporation, a renewable energy company, today announced its subsidiary Southeast Biofuels LLC has entered into a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service (ARS).

25 Apr 2008

Discovery of Ocean Currents Could Dramatically Improve Forecasts of Climate

An international collaborative of scientists led by Peter Niiler, a physical oceanographer at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, and Nikolai Maximenko, a researcher at the International Pacific Research Center, University of Hawaii, has detected the presence of crisscrossing patterns of currents running throughout the world's oceans.

25 Apr 2008

DuPont Crop R+D Leader Discusses Pioneer Hi-Bred Biotechnology Leadership

DuPont partnerships with China's public and private sectors will help increase farm productivity in the country and increase total global supply of key agricultural products, William S. Niebur, vice president -- DuPont Crop Genetics Research and Development, told attendees at the "Globalization of the Seed Industry" Biotechnology and Agriculture Summit here today.

25 Apr 2008

Bringing Green Thinking to NYC for Earth Day 2008

Fred J. Dufek, President/CEO and Managing Director of e-Green Management, LLC, announced today that the Company has celebrated a successful Earth Day 2008, Tuesday, April 22, 2008, in New York's prime commercial district and is proud to have been invited to perform as a "Green" service provider for The Rockefeller Group.

25 Apr 2008

Leaving Environmental Monitoring to the Plants

In a forthcoming special issue of the Inderscience publication, the International Journal of Environment and Pollution (2008, Volume 32, Issue 4), researchers from various fields explain how living organisms can be used to track the dispersal of atmospheric pollutants, particulates, and trace elements.

25 Apr 2008

The First U.S. Gaming Corporation to Receive an Environmental Quality Award

Green is not just the color of money at Harrah's Entertainment, Inc. It's also the way the company operates.

25 Apr 2008

Full-Service Approach to the Green Renovation + Construction Markets

MyHome, LLC announced today it will apply its trademark full-service approach to the green renovation and construction markets. This means designing, supplying, and installing every part of a (NYC) green building project in a market that has traditionally been divided by niche service providers.

25 Apr 2008

Richer Plant Diversity Significantly Enhances an Ecosystem's Productivity

In the first experiment involving a natural environment, scientists at Brown University have shown that richer plant diversity significantly enhances an ecosystem's productivity. The finding underscores the benefits of biodiversity, such as capturing carbon dioxide, a main contributor to global warming.

24 Apr 2008