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Real Solutions for Environmentally Conscious Living

This Sunday's New York Times Magazine - The Green Issue - serves as a veritable "Low-Carbon Catalog" of eco-actions, ideas and advances that, taken together, could add up to real solutions for environmentally conscious living.

17 Apr 2008

Las Vegas Area School Benefits from Travel Agent Conference

At its twelfth annual Technology and Marketing University (TMU), TRAMS, Inc. and Sabre Travel Network will host an eco-friendly luncheon Wed., April 24 at the Rio Hotel in Las Vegas that will not only stimulate the conversation on travel-related sustainability efforts, but also give back to the local community of one of the world's travel capitals, Las Vegas.

17 Apr 2008

First Use of The Highly Sustainable Hemcrete Building System in US

American Lime Technology is pleased to announce its inaugural project, which represents the first use of the highly sustainable Hemcrete® building system in the United States.

17 Apr 2008

Company’s Commitment to Contribute to a More Sustainable Environment.

Macy's, Inc. today announced it will begin using recycled paper shopping bags at its Macy's stores, as well as biodegradable packaging for its online shipments, as part of the company's commitment to contribute to a more sustainable environment. The changes will phase-in beginning this month.

17 Apr 2008

Non-Food Resources Will be Converted to Fuel

Biotechnology is delivering solutions to rapidly rising demand for both food and biofuels through improvements in current biofuel production, commercialization of cellulosic and other advanced biofuels, and increased production of food and energy crops on existing land.

17 Apr 2008

Findings Show Significant Increase in Attention to Green Behaviors

Genesys, a global multi-media collaboration service leader, today announced the results of its annual Earth Day Green Survey of more than 18,000 customers to learn how behaviors are evolving in the workplace to address environmental issues and concerns. This year's findings show a significant increase in attention to Green behaviors and an escalating trend toward conducting work through virtual meetings whenever possible.

17 Apr 2008

Monorail Reduced Local Emissions by 58 Tons of Carbon Monoxide in 2007

In honor of Earth Day, April 22, the Las Vegas Monorail Company is promoting the electric, zero-emissions transportation system to eco-minded Las Vegas visitors as an alternative to traditional automobile and mass transit. Savvy travelers can support an earth-friendly initiative to reduce traffic and pollution simply by riding the Monorail to reach their destinations along the world-famous Las Vegas Strip.

17 Apr 2008

Least Water-Efficient Energy Sources are Ethanol and Biodiesel

It is easy to overlook that most of the energy we consume daily, such as electricity or natural gas, is produced with the help of a dwindling resource - fresh water. Virginia Tech professor Tamim Younos and undergraduate student Rachelle Hill are researching the water-efficiency of some of the most common energy sources and power generating methods.

17 Apr 2008

Company Should Do More to be Environmentally Friendly

The latest Adecco USA Workplace Insight survey, conducted in recognition of Earth Day 2008, reveals that, following a year where the "green" movement has dominated headlines, American workers are paying growing attention to companies' environmental policies and an increasing number (36 percent) report that they would be more inclined to work for "green" companies.

17 Apr 2008

Turn Out the Lights and Stop Printing What You Don’t Read

Do you consider yourself environmentally aware? Are you the Chief Recycling Officer of your household? What about at work?

17 Apr 2008

Germany Earmarks 25-35% of Agricultural Land for Bio-Energy

Friedrich Wolf, managing director of E.ON Bioerdgas GmbH, will call for greater investment to improve efficiency and technological innovation in the agricultural sector to produce enough crops for both food and bio energy in a speech to top industrialists at the Society of Chemical Industry (SCI) European Conference on Bio-Energy due to take place in Düsseldorf, Germany, on 04 May 2008.

17 Apr 2008

Strong Bi-Partisan Support for the Renewable Energy Industry

After months of intense effort to secure renewal of tax credits and other incentives which have helped spur record growth in the use of renewable energy, solar and wind power companies were rewarded when the U.S. Senate passed The Clean Energy Tax Stimulus Act of 2008 with strong bi-partisan support in an 88 to 8 vote.

17 Apr 2008

Polymer Group Expands Use of Environmentally-Friendly Acoustic Materials

Based on the commercial success of its environmentally-friendly acoustic materials with major auto makers, Polymer Group, Inc. (PGI) today announced it is expanding the use of these substrates to other vehicle components.

17 Apr 2008

Five of the World's Disappearing Destinations and How to Visit Them Responsibly

IndependentTraveler.com, a leader in online travel information, highlights five of the world's disappearing destinations and provides suggestions about how to visit them responsibly. Tourists should hurry to see the destinations most threatened by global warming -- but they must travel responsibly in order to keep from contributing to the problem.

17 Apr 2008

Syngenta to Build Center Focusing on Biofuel Research

Syngenta today announced that it will build a new biotech research + technology center in Beijing, China. Its focus will be on early-stage evaluation of GM and native traits for key crops such as corn and soy, in the areas of yield improvement, drought resistance, disease control and biomass conversion for biofuels.

17 Apr 2008