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'Frugal Green' is the New Era Says Green Building Consultant

Jerry Yudelson, one of the world's top green building consultants, proclaims that green building professionals can make sustainability pay its own way

5 Mar 2009

Certain Rocks Found to Pull CO2 From the Air and Lock It Away Like Trees Do

Trees already pull carbon dioxide from the air and safely lock it away naturally through photosynthesis. Now, in a new report, geologists have mapped large rock formations in the United States that can also absorb CO2, which they say might be artificially harnessed to do the task at a vastly increased pace

5 Mar 2009

Pepsi Goes Retro and Natural With a Limited Release of Three New Products Sweetened With Natural Sugar

As part of the company's "Refresh Everything" campaign, Pepsi is reinvigorating its beverage lineup with the introduction of three new products. Pepsi Natural, Pepsi Throwback and Mountain Dew Throwback , all sweetened with natural sugar, will be hitting the beverage aisle this March and April

5 Mar 2009

G-Clean Biodegradable Pouches Put The Power Of Nanotechnology into Pressure Cleaning Without Harming the Environment

Green Earth Technologies announced today the introduction of G-CLEAN, their new line of concentrated ultimate biodegradable dissolvable pouches

5 Mar 2009

Cellulosic Biofuels Promise A Low Cost, Environmental Friendly Petroleum Replacement

Cellulosic biofuels offer similar, if not lower, costs and very large reductions in greenhouse gas emissions compared to petroleum-derived fuels

5 Mar 2009

Butte College Is Now The Largest Solar Campus in California

With national attention focused on renewable energy policies, Butte College cemented its leadership in use of solar power by unveiling three new solar projects which will help the college achieve its goal of becoming a carbon neutral campus by 2015

4 Mar 2009

NASA and Cisco Team Up To Monitor Climate Change With Planetary Skin Project

NASA and Cisco Inc. announced Tuesday a partnership to develop an online collaborative global monitoring platform called the "Planetary Skin" to capture, collect, analyze and report data on environmental conditions around the world

4 Mar 2009

Siemens and Russian State Atomic Energy Corporation Sign Joint Venture to Develop New Nuclear Technologies

Siemens and the Russian State Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom today signed a Memorandum of Understanding on the creation of a joint venture in the field of nuclear energy. The joint venture plans to push ahead with further development of Russian pressurized water reactor (VVER) technology

3 Mar 2009

Super Thin Solar Panels May Be The Result of Nanotechnology Research That Has Increased the Efficiency of Electron Transport

Boston College researchers have developed a titanium nanostructure that provides an expanded surface area and demonstrates much greater efficiency in the transport of electrons that could lead to much thinner solar panels

3 Mar 2009

Starch Based Plantic Biodegradable Plastic Saving Tonnes of Carbon Dioxide

A life cycle analysis shows that every tonne of Plantic sheet purchased in place of petrochemical polymers will save up to 2.5 tonnes of carbon dioxide (the average annual emissions of a compact car) and enough energy to power 2.5 average Australian homes

3 Mar 2009