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Collection Enhances Sustainable Surfacing Offerings from DuPont

DuPont today announced its newest collection of surfaces -- the DuPont(TM) Zodiaq(R) Terra Collection -- with four new colors that contain at least 50 percent pre-consumer recycled glass. The collection will be available through DuPont distributors in the United States in July 2008.

11 Apr 2008

To Encourage Development and Operation of New Renewable Energy Projects in Michigan

DTE Energy has issued a Request for Proposal (RFP) to purchase Michigan-based renewable energy for the company's GreenCurrents renewable energy program.

11 Apr 2008

Website Teaching Americans How to Be Energy-Independent

EnergyHotwire.com is the first fully comprehensive web site that teaches Americans how we can be energy-independent with a well-diversified team of experts led by Environmental Scientist + Energy Consultant Bill Lauto.

11 Apr 2008

Harvesting More Wood to Produce Bio-Energy

As the EU promotes renewable energy with clear targets for 2020 and the wood markets show increasing demand of raw material, the present political discussions are focussing on availability and mobilization of woo...

11 Apr 2008

Company Commended for Providing Comprehensive Information About GreenBuilding Program

The European Commission has commended Siemens' Building Technologies Division for outstanding achievements in support of its GreenBuilding Program. This award pays tribute to the company for furnishing expert and committed support to a large number of customers in implementing improvements to the energy efficiency of their buildings.

11 Apr 2008

Transparent Glass Containing Solar Cells Could Capture Enough Energy to Power a Home

Professor John Bell said QUT had worked with a Canberra-based company Dyesol, which is developing transparent solar cells that act as both windows and energy generators in houses or commercial buildings.

11 Apr 2008

UTC Power to Provide 110 PureCycle Geothermal Power Systems to Raser

UTC Power, a United Technologies Corp. company, and Raser Technologies of Provo, Utah, today announced UTC Power will provide 110 PureCycle(R) geothermal power systems to Raser in addition to 90 ordered last year.

11 Apr 2008

Decreases in Cloud Cover Results in Supergreenhouse Episodes

In a world without human-produced pollution, biological productivity controls cloud formation and may be the lever that caused supergreenhouse episodes during the Cetaceous and Eocene, according to Penn State paleoclimatologists.

11 Apr 2008

EMCORE to Supply CPV Systems to XinAo Group in China

EMCORE Corporation a leading provider of semiconductor-based components and subsystems for the broadband, fiber-optic, satellite and terrestrial solar power markets, announced today that it has agreed to supply CPV systems to XinAo Group in China.

11 Apr 2008

Dramatic Improvement in Cheap Solar Cells Now Being Developed in Laboratories

By using a popcorn-ball design - tiny kernels clumped into much larger porous spheres - researchers at the University of Washington are able to manipulate light and more than double the efficiency of converting solar energy to electricity.

11 Apr 2008