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Taiwan Green Product Demo House Presents Quality Green Products at Tokyo's Home & Building Show

Taiwan Green Trade Project Office's trademark "Taiwan Green Product Demo House" is currently presenting 10 quality green products in Japan, at Tokyo's Home & Building Show. The house is an environmentally friendly, reusable exhibition show booth made entirely of state-of-the-art materials that have been certified by both domestic and international green standards.

19 Nov 2015

UK Health Professionals Form Alliance to Advocate for Stronger Measures to Tackle Climate Change

As world leaders prepare to meet in Paris for the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference, UK health professionals have formed an alliance of doctors, nurses, and allied health professionals to advocate for stronger measures to tackle climate change.

19 Nov 2015

Air Pollution in Major Urban Areas Associated with Cardiovascular Disease

Researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health have found a link between higher levels of a specific kind of air pollution in major urban areas and an increase in cardiovascular-related hospitalizations such as for heart attacks in people 65 and older.

19 Nov 2015

EDF Renewable Energy’s 175MW Pilot Hill Wind Project Reaches Commercial Operation

EDF Renewable Energy (EDF RE) announced today that the 175 megawatt (MW) Pilot Hill Wind Project in Illinois reached commercial operation on September 26, 2015.

19 Nov 2015

Purestream’s AVARA Vapor Recompression System Installed at Warren Commercial Waste Water Disposal Facility

Purestream Services, LLC, announced the company's latest technology deployment of a thermally efficient wastewater treatment AVARA vapor recompression system at a commercial waste water disposal facility in Warren, Pennsylvania.

19 Nov 2015

Fortum and Skellefteå Kraft to Build Fourth Phase of Blaiken Wind Farm

Fortum and Skellefteå Kraft, a Swedish energy company, will build the fourth phase of the Blaiken wind farm in Sweden consisting in total of 9 wind turbines. Skellefteå Kraft will be responsible for the investment of six of the turbines while Fortum will invest in three turbines. The value of Fortum's investment is approximately EUR 10 million. The new wind turbines are expected to start production in 2017.

19 Nov 2015

Approximately One-Third of New Single-Family Homes in the U.S. will be Green by 2016

Energy-efficient homes of the future have arrived and are growing in popularity. According to a report by McGraw Hill Construction, nearly one-third of new single-family homes in the U.S. will be green by 2016. They are energy and natural resource efficient, designed to reduce overall impact on human health and the environment.

18 Nov 2015

Strata Solar, Mississippi Power and the U.S. Navy Partner to Build 50MW Solar Project in Hattiesburg

The Mississippi Public Service Commission approved the largest solar installations in Mississippi on Tuesday, Nov. 10, making Mississippi Power the largest partner in renewable energy in the state.

18 Nov 2015

ToyLabs Introduces DIY Solar-Powered Airplane Science Kit for Children

ToyLabs, Inc., a Silicon Valley start-up that specializes in educational, build-and-play projects that teach kids the fundamental principles of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM), announces the Volta Flyer project, a DIY science kit packaged with all the prefabricated components necessary to build and fly the solar-powered airplane.

18 Nov 2015

United Church of Chapel Hill Installs 84.7kW Solar System

Sunday November 22, members of a church in Chapel Hill, N. C. will dedicate a solar array installed by Yes! Solar Solutions of Cary, N.C. United Church of Chapel Hill raised the funds for the 84.7 kilowatt solar system with a capital campaign. The system will generate approximately 60% of the electricity used by the church and is part of a long-term strategy to meet strategic carbon emissions reduction goals consistent with recommendations by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

18 Nov 2015

Ancient Earth Climates Could Have Been More Sensitive to Increased Carbon Dioxide

Ancient climates on Earth may have been more sensitive to carbon dioxide than was previously thought, according to new research from Binghamton University.

18 Nov 2015

Closer to Identifying Causes of Aging in Lithium Ion Batteries

A key issue with lithium ion batteries is aging. It significantly reduces their potential storage capacity. To date, very little is known about the causes of the aging effects. Scientists from the Department of Technical Electrochemistry and the Research Neutron Source FRM II at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have now come a step closer to identifying the causes in their latest experiments.

18 Nov 2015

Freshwater Resources of Less Developed Nations Adversely Impacted by Energy Demand of Developed Nations

Global energy demand from developed nations has an adverse impact on freshwater resources in less developed nations according to a new study.

18 Nov 2015

GE Announces Creation of New Renewable Energy Business

GE today introduced its new Renewable Energy business at the European Wind Energy Association’s 2015 Annual Event in Paris. The new unit significantly expands GE’s wind portfolio in the wake of its recent acquisition of Alstom’s power and grid businesses.

17 Nov 2015

New Study Assesses Factors Affecting Climate Change Adaptation

A new study assesses the factors that affect climate change adaptation and ranks six American cities, finding that Portland, Boston and Los Angeles are all in the advanced to middle stages of planning for extreme weather events linked to climate change while Raleigh and Tucson are in the early to middle stages.

17 Nov 2015