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New Cable Solutions Released for Photovoltaic Arrays

Champlain Cable Corporation of Colchester, Vermont has entered the renewable energy industry with two new cable solutions for photovoltaic arrays

2 Mar 2009

Building Sustainable Offices Using Innovative Building Materials

Niche developer WCR Group is building sustainable offices using the H+H Thin Joint system as a structural element to compliment its green-technology external treatments and services

2 Mar 2009

Climate Change Evidence From Millions of Years Ago Points to an Underestimation of Current Climate Change Predictions

New temperature data and numerical climate model simulations contradict the long-held idea that global temperatures were steady in the greenhouse-to-icehouse transition 34 million years ago. This suggests that models in use now to predict climate change may be underestimating future polar warming

1 Mar 2009

Starbucks Goes Green With The Opening of LEED Certified Coffee Roasting Plant

Starbucks Coffee Company has announced the opening of its state of the art roasting plant located in Calhoun County in central South Carolina

1 Mar 2009

Making a High-Energy Fuel by Recycling a Greenhouse Gas Using the Sun

A team of researchers at Penn State has come up with an ingenious method of turning captured CO2 into methane using the energy of the sun

1 Mar 2009

Magnesium to be Key Material for Energy Efficient Transport

Magnesium and its alloys are being considered for structural applications in every type of vehicle because of their favorable combination of tensile strength, elastic modulus, and low density, according to ASM International, the materials information society

1 Mar 2009

Nano, Bio and Clean Technologies Conference Agendas Published

TechConnect World, in association with the Nano Science and Technology Institute (NSTI), and the Clean Technology and Sustainable Industries Organization (CTSI), today announced that more than 2,700 presentations will be featured in the Clean Technology '09, Nanotech '09 and TechConnect Summit event

27 Feb 2009

DuPont Imagines a Futre Where All Packaging is Recycled or Recovered

Innovation can eliminate packaging waste and enable a future where all packaging is recycled or its value is recovered

27 Feb 2009

Polar Research Shows New Evidence of Global Environmental Change

It now appears clear that the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are losing mass contributing to sea level rise. Warming in the Antarctic is much more widespread than it was thought prior to the IPY, and it now appears that the rate of ice loss from Greenland is increasing

25 Feb 2009

Tillage Practices Doesn't Always Influence Soil Carbon Storage

Recent research conducted at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada studied the impacts of tillage and nitrogen and phosphorus fertilization on carbon storage, revealing that the effect of no-till on carbon sequestration can be variable depending on soil and climatic conditions, and nutrient management practices

25 Feb 2009