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Green Earth Technologies Forms GET Manufacturing

Green Earth Technologies, Inc., a manufacturer and marketer of environmentally friendly consumer products, today formed GET Manufacturing Inc., a Detroit-based wholly owned subsidiary, that will manufacture, package and distribute the company’s “G”-branded automotive appearance and performance products.

21 Feb 2008

Presentation Outlining Company’s Solar Energy Technologies

Global Warming Solutions, Inc. – a developer of technologies aimed at mitigating the effects of global warming – today released a twenty-four page presentation outlining the Company’s Solar Energy Technologies.

21 Feb 2008

APS Announces Plans for Construction of 280MW Concentrating Solar Power Plant

Arizona Public Service Co. (APS) today announced plans for one of the world's largest solar facilities - a 280-megawatt (MW) concentrating solar power (CSP) plant to be built 70 miles southwest of Phoenix, near Gila Bend, Ariz.

21 Feb 2008

Project to Offer Reductions in Energy Consumption and Costs

Concordia Homes, one of the southwest’s leading homebuilders, today announced the launch of Sommerset Community, the first solar-powered residential development in Nevada to feature GE ecomagination-certified solar products, as a standard on every home.

21 Feb 2008

World Wildlife Fund Named to Top 12 Green IT List

World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has been named as the only environmental group and only non-profit organization in Computerworld Magazine’s “Top Green-IT Companies for 2008”.

21 Feb 2008

The Future of Energy Storage - ZESS

ZBB Energy Corporation today announced that it has introduced the commercial product platform ZESS, the Zinc Energy Storage System. The announcement came at the CleanEquity Monaco 2008 Emerging Environmental Technology Conference.

21 Feb 2008

Largest Lithium Iron Phosphate Cells in World

Lithium Technology Corporation announced today that it launched its new product line of high energy density lithium iron phosphate (LiFePO4) cells, the largest cells of their kind in the world. This product line is aimed at answering the need of the electrical vehicle (EV) and the plug in hybrid vehicle (PHEV) markets.

21 Feb 2008

Glaciologist and Climatologist Wins the Prestigious Dan David Prize

Ohio State University glaciologist Lonnie Thompson and climatologist Ellen Mosley-Thompson are among this year’s winners of the prestigious Dan David Prize.

21 Feb 2008

Miles Electric Vehicles Announces Investment to Develop Highway Speed Sedan

Miles Electric Vehicles announced today a $15,000,000 investment round led by the Los Angeles based private equity fund, Angeleno Group, with participation from existing investors.

21 Feb 2008

Green Roads Right Around the Corner

Kevin Gardner sees green roads right around the corner. “A lot of the infrastructure in this country needs to be re-built,” says Gardner, University of New Hampshire associate professor of civil engineerin...

21 Feb 2008

The Southern Ocean Gas Exchange Experiment

More than 30 scientists will embark next week on a research mission to the Southern Ocean. Researchers will battle the elements to study how gases important to climate change move between the atmosphere and the ocean under high winds and seas.

21 Feb 2008

Nanotechnology Bringing Down the Cost of Solar Cells

The electrons in nanoparticles of noble metal oscillate together apace with the frequency of the light. This phenomenon can be exploited to produce better and cheaper solar cells, scientists at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden have shown.

21 Feb 2008

Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) Database Available from EPA

Information on the 2006 reporting year is now available as part of the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) database. Today marks the earliest release of the data in the 20-year history of the program. Improvements in electronic reporting and data processing have made this possible. Nation-wide chemical releases into the environment are down by two percent from 2005.

21 Feb 2008

The Official Launch of The World Green Exchange

World Energy Solutions, Inc., the leading operator of online exchanges for energy, today announced the official launch of the World Green Exchange, an auction platform for environmental commodities.

21 Feb 2008

ASLA Releases Series of Strategic Policy Recommendations on Climate Change

The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) has released a series of strategic policy recommendations on climate change to reduce carbon emissions and mitigate global warming.

20 Feb 2008