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Water Saving Guaranteed with New Dual Flush Toilet Conversion Kit

The SelectAFlush dual flush valve conversion kit, fits most toilets, saves about 7 thousand gallons of water, per year, every year, for every toilet installed

9 Nov 2008

American Clay Earth Plaster Demonstrated at Greenbuild While Users Claim Energy Savings

American Clay Enterprises returns to the Greenbuild International Expo to showcase its all-natural, eco-friendly earth plasters with a larger hands-on demo area. They will also discuss the start of a long-term experiment inspired by feedback from users of the products who claim that the clay provides them energy savings

9 Nov 2008

Hybrid Materials are Under Development as the Future of Solar Cells

Composite materials based on semiconductor nanoparticles and carbon nanotubes are being developed as functional materials for efficient light emitting diodes and photovoltaic devices

4 Nov 2008

Coral Reefs Found in Deep, Cold, Ocean

Imagine descending in a submarine to the ice-cold, ink-black depths of the ocean, 800 metres under the surface of the Atlantic. Here the tops of the hills are covered in large coral reefs

4 Nov 2008

World Toilet Summit Takes a Good Look at Sanitation

The eighth annual World Toilet Summit and Expo will bring together United Nations agencies, civil society groups, industry pioneers, and other stakeholders in the international development community to discuss strategies for accelerating progress on worldwide sanitation issues

4 Nov 2008

Innovative Use of Solar Panels Provides Electricty and Parking Lot Shade at Caltech

Suntech Power Holdings Co., Ltd., the world's largest manufacturer of photovoltaic (PV) modules, today announced the completion of the California Institute of Technology's (Caltech) 238 kWp solar array

4 Nov 2008

Chinese Air Cargo Carrier Signs On With EcoPower to Boost Engine Power, PErformance and Efficiency

Chinese cargo carrier Great Wall Airlines has signed an exclusive agreement to use Pratt & Whitney's EcoPower engine wash service. EcoPower washes reduce engine fuel burn and cut back carbon dioxide emissions

3 Nov 2008

Scrap Iron Being Used to Clean Up Industrial Wastewater Pollution

Researchers use zero valent iron to detoxify pollutants in industrial wastewater

3 Nov 2008

Ice That Burns, Water and Sunshine Set to be Fuels of the Future

Move over, oil, gasoline, and coal. Researchers are describing key advances in developing new fuels to help supply an energy-hungry world in the 21st Century

3 Nov 2008

Wireless Technology Being Used to Produce Better Wine With Less Resource Demand

European researchers are offering the continent’s winemaking industry the opportunity to improve quality, save water and reduce pesticide use without giving up age-old practices

3 Nov 2008