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Hand Shaped Bamboo Fins Allow Surfers to Unlock the Full Potential of Their Boards

Greenlight Surf Supply has teamed up with ProBox Fin Systems to successfully enable surfers to unleash the full potential of their surfboards through infinite fin choices. The unique combination of hand shaped bamboo fins installed into ProBox Fin boxes provides personal fin design freedom and dynamic adjustability to dial in a surfboard's performance potential.

4 Mar 2008

Konarka Use High Efficiency Ink Jet Printing to Manufacture Solar Cells

Konarka Technologies, Inc., an innovator in development and commercialization of Power PlasticR, a material that converts light to energy, today announced the company successfully conducted the first-ever demonstration of manufacturing solar cells by highly efficient inkjet printing.

4 Mar 2008

New Environmental Partnership with Rolls Royce to Focus on Lower Fuel Burn

Virgin Atlantic, one of the world's leading long-haul airlines, today announced it has selected Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 engines to power its Boeing 787-9 fleet of aircraft.

4 Mar 2008

SCHOTT Breaks New Ground on Solar Systems Manufacturing Facility

Executives from SCHOTT AG of Mainz, Germany, Governor Bill Richardson (D - NM) and local dignitaries ceremonially broke ground today for the company's new manufacturing facility for SCHOTT Solar, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of SCHOTT.

4 Mar 2008

Titanium Dioxide Sites Save Equivalent of 3 Million Barrels of Oil

DuPont Titanium Technologies has managed to cut its energy consumption per pound of product by nearly 30 percent - saving more than $100 million in the process as oil prices hover at the $100 per barrel threshold. The business estimates that it has saved the equivalent of three million barrels of oil since 2001.

4 Mar 2008

Company Introduces the Power-Save Solar and Power-Save Wind Turbine

Power-Save Energy Company, an emerging leading retailer of renewable energy and energy savings products, today announced the successful launch of its new Renewable Energy product line, The Power-Save Solar and Power-Save Wind Turbine.

4 Mar 2008

Good Energies Topped New Energy Finance's Ranking

Good Energies, a leading global investor in the renewable energy and energy efficiency industry, topped New Energy Finance's ranking of venture capital investors by number of deals in 2007, according to a report just released by the research firm.

4 Mar 2008

Good Jobs, Green Jobs

"Good Jobs/Green Jobs: A National Green Jobs Conference," will be held in Pittsburgh at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center on March 13 and 14, 2008.

3 Mar 2008

Plan a Spring Garden Makeover Now for Big Summer Savings

Water costs continue to rise. However, smart landscape design and simple watering habits can significantly reduce a home's utility bills. By planning now, homeowners can save hundreds of dollars and thousands of gallons of water this summer.

3 Mar 2008

Hydrogen-Powered Chevrolet Equinox Car to be Used for Limo Service

Virgin Atlantic, one of the world's leading long-haul airlines, and General Motors, the world's largest automaker, today announced that the airline will offer passengers a zero-emissions Chevrolet Equinox Hydrogen Fuel Cell car as part of its Upper Class limo service.

3 Mar 2008

Creating Electricity from Normal Everyday Traffic

This week in Washington, DC (March 4-7) at the Washington International Renewable Energy Conference, a company co-founded by two former College Lacrosse teammates will try to gain attention for their patent pending technology for converting moving traffic into electricity.

3 Mar 2008

Volume Production of High-Performance Lithium-Ion Battery for Hybrid Vehicles

The international automotive supplier Continental will launch first-time volume production of a high-performance lithium-ion battery for hybrid vehicles at the end of the present year. It will be used in the Mercedes S 400 BlueHYBRID.

3 Mar 2008

New Book Unveils Attainable Vision for Solving the Greatest Crisis of Our Time

A groundbreaking new book, Earth: The Sequel - The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming, unveils an attainable vision for solving the greatest crisis of our time. In sharp contrast to books offering little beyond dire warnings and grim statistics about global warming, Earth: The Sequel maps the path to recovery.

3 Mar 2008

Regulating CO2 Fixation in Plants

A team of Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) funded scientists at the University of Essex has discovered a new mechanism that slows the process of carbon dioxide fixation in plants.

3 Mar 2008

Key to Earth's Environment

Microbes living in the oceans play a critical role in regulating Earth’s environment, but very little is known about their activities and how they work together to help control natural cycles of water, carbon and energy.

3 Mar 2008