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Biggest Driver for Environmental Testing Equipment Market

The world environmental testing equipment market has experienced steady growth in recent times because of the growth of alternative fuel technologies and rising demand from the Asia Pacific region. Vendors must maintain a global perspective since the sale of environmental testing equipment expects to increase across all regions, not just the Asia Pacific.

12 Feb 2008

Nobel Laureate Delivers Talk on Uses of Nanotechnology in Sustaining Our Environment

Nobel Laureate Heinrich Rohrer will deliver a talk in the Vice-Chancellor's public lecture series this Thursday, 14 February, in the Great Hall at the University of Sydney.

11 Feb 2008

Alcoa's Accomplishments in Area of Sustainable Development

Today, Alcoa is launching its advertising campaign on the large television networks of Québec. Beginning on this 11th of February, a new message will be aired for the first time, namely during the soaps Rumeurs on the CBC's French television network and Annie et ses hommes on the TVA network. The 60-second clip, called Aluminum is people (Echelle humaine), will be broadcast in French and in English until April 6, 2008.

11 Feb 2008

Efficient Lighting Expected to Reduce Energy Use in Maintenance Hangar

Lime Energy announced today the completion of the first phase of an energy efficiency retrofit of a major airline's maintenance hangar at San Francisco International Airport.

11 Feb 2008

New Hot-End Emission Control Business on Ford Vehicles

Tenneco Inc. today announced that the Ford Motor Company awarded Tenneco new hot-end emission control business on vehicles launching in model-year 2009 and 2010.

11 Feb 2008

The Only Green Portable Air Purifier in the U.S.

Consumers soon will be enjoying the cleanest air possible in without sacrificing the environment, style -- or their health. Alen Corporation announced today their newest product called the "AirMD" will be the only "green" air purifier that is certified lead-free, ozone safe, and Energy Star qualified by both the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Energy.

11 Feb 2008

Georgia Power Adds Company to List of Renewable Energy Producers

Georgia Power recently added another company to its growing list of independent renewable energy producers that have committed to a long-term contract from a renewable generation source.

11 Feb 2008

BioEnergy Begins Construction of Ethanol Biorefinery

BioEnergy International, LLC (BioEnergy), a science and technology leader developing biorefineries using proprietary biocatalysts to produce high value renewable fuels and biobased specialty chemicals, closed financing for the Bionol Clearfield, LLC 100 mgpy corn ethanol biorefinery beginning construction in Clearfield, Pennsylvania.

11 Feb 2008

Coca-Cola Company Receives Recycling Works Award

The National Recycling Coalition (NRC) today honored The Coca-Cola Company with its annual "Recycling Works!" Award for the Company's unparalleled commitment to sustainable packaging design, investment in recycling infrastructure and its unprecedented goal to recycle or reuse 100 percent of the Company's PET (polyethylene terraphthalate) plastic bottles in the United States.

11 Feb 2008

Strategy to Capture, Store and Recycle Carbon from Vehicles

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a strategy to capture, store and eventually recycle carbon from vehicles to prevent the pollutant from finding its way from a car tailpipe into the atmosphere. Georgia Tech researchers envision a zero emission car, and a transportation system completely free of fossil fuels.

11 Feb 2008

Foraging of Insects Boosted by Rising Temperatures

Ellen Currano collecting fossil leaves from a site that is 57 million years old in the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming.

11 Feb 2008

Significant Changes in Ice Sheet Without Seeing a Change in Front

A comprehensive new study authored by University at Buffalo scientists and their colleagues for the first time documents in detail the dynamics of parts of Greenland’s ice sheet, important data that have long been missing from the ice sheet models on which projections about sea level rise and global warming are based.

11 Feb 2008

La Nina Conditions Become Slightly Stronger

The current La Nina event, characterized by a cooling of the sea surface in the central and eastern Equatorial Pacific, has strengthened slightly in recent months and is expected to continue through the first quarter of 2008, with a likelihood of persisting through to the middle of the year.

11 Feb 2008

Cooling of Buildings that Needs Nothing but Wind and Sun

A new approach to the cooling of buildings across the developing world that needs nothing but wind and sun to operate has been devised by engineers in India. Writing in the inaugural issue of Inderscience's International Journal of Sustainable Design, the team explains the concept of a combined solar chimney and wind tower system that can reduce the temperature of incoming appear by 5 degrees Celsius.

11 Feb 2008

ALBIASA Group Promotes Use of Solar Energy with 300 Million Euro Plan

The Basque ALBIASA group has development plans to invest 300 million euros up to 2010 aimed at promoting various photoelectric parks, a thermosolar plant and premises for the manufacture of photoelectric cells.

11 Feb 2008