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Companies Benchmarked on Their Sustainable Business Practices - How Do You Score in the Sustainability Challenge

Semplice Energy Limited, leading provider of enterprise CleanTech energy solutions and part of British Gas, a Centrica company, today announced the launch of the Sustainability Challenge Scorecard survey at Sustainability live! 2009, at the NEC, Birmingham

19 May 2009

Phosphorus and Nitrogen Both Need to be Managed To Ensure Water Quality

Excess phosphorus and nitrogen produced by human activities on neighboring land is making its way into our coastal waters and degrading both water quality and aquatic life

19 May 2009

Eco-Friendly Phone Accessories Launched by Sprint

Sprint today announced the availability of new eco-friendly accessories, including the SOLIO Mono solar-powered charger and two new cell-phone carrying cases made from 100 percent recycled plastic water bottles

19 May 2009

Clues To Future Global Climate May Lay in Arctic River Deltas

Scientists struggling to understand how Earth's climate will change in the next few decades have neglected a potential treasure trove of information - sediments deposited in the ocean by major Arctic rivers such as the Colville and Mackenzie rivers

19 May 2009

President of Ireland to Speak at Environmentally Friendly Mount Holyoke College Commencement

It will be an "all-green" event when Mount Holyoke College celebrates its 172nd commencement and confers 600 degrees on Sunday, May 24 -- beginning with the president of the Emerald Isle as commencement speaker

19 May 2009

Limbach Energy Solutions Expands Into New Markets and Embraces Energy Efficiency

A long-time player in the U.S. building industry is shaking up the energy services market. Limbach Facility Services, one of the United States leading specialty contractors, announced today that it is expanding its en...

19 May 2009

Review of Anti-Infectives Contamination of Water

Anti-infectives have become environmental contaminants of growing concern, as they are transported from landfills, agriculture and urban centers into waterways and drinking water, according to a review article published in the May 2009 issue of the peer-reviewed journal Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP)

18 May 2009

Hydrogen Fuel Cell Powered Street Cleaning Vehicle Keeping the Roads of Basel Tidy

Empa and the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) have, together with Bucher Schoerling, Proton Motor, BRUSA Elektronik AG und Messer Schweiz, developed a hydrogen powered municipal street cleaning vehicle which was presented to the public in Basel

18 May 2009

Environmental Cleanup Agreement for Radiation at High Flux Beam Reactor at Brookhaven National Laboratory

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the N.Y. State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) have agreed on a final cleanup action for the inactive High Flux Beam Reactor (HFBR) at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL)

18 May 2009

Magnetic Refrigeration Technology May Bring In a New Era in Environmentally Friendly Cooling

Magnetic refrigeration technology may signal a new era in environmentally friendly fridges and air-conditioning systems, slashing the staggering amounts of energy that they currently consume by up to 30%

18 May 2009