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Sustainability Forum to Encourage Dialogue with Stakeholders

BASF - The Chemical Company - is Official Partner of the "Germany and China - Moving Ahead Together" initiative in Chongqing, southwest China. A BASF Pavilion focusing on sustainable urbanization will be open to the public at the Germany Esplanade in the city's central square from May 9 to 17, 2008.

9 May 2008

Market for Waste Water and Drinking Water in Asian Will Reach $117.3 Billion US in 2015

Several Asian countries like China, Japan, India, Taiwan, Korea and Vietnam increased their Investments in drinking water, waste water and water treatment in the last 24 month dramatically.

9 May 2008

New Type of Solar Thermal Collectors Unique Among Renewable Energy Technologies

There's a lot of energy in the College of Engineering at Rowan University, Glassboro, N.J., these days, and it doesn't have anything to do with 20-year-olds cramming for finals.

9 May 2008

Sustainably Designed Golf Courses as Way to Spread Message to Decision Makers

The Chesapeake Bay Foundation (CBF), a conservation group that has worked to protect and restore the Bay since 1967, has chosen sustainably designed golf courses as one way to spread its message to decision makers.

9 May 2008

Eco-Tec Awarded Contract to Supply CBNG Water Treatment System

Eco-Tec is proud to announce that it has recently been awarded a contract to supply a coal bed natural gas (CBNG) water treatment system to Marathon Oil Corporation, through one of the company's wholly owned subsidiaries, for one of its production sites in Northeast Wyoming.

8 May 2008

Highlighting the Importance of Protecting and Conserving Water Resources

As Drinking Water Week continues, the American Water Works Association (AWWA) joins water professionals across North America in highlighting the importance of protecting and conserving water resources.

8 May 2008

Asia's Most Important Freshwater Source Under Threat

The Tibetan Plateau's vast reserves of glacial freshwater, which supply Asia's most populous regions, are both at risk and are emerging as an issue in the increasingly tense political and cultural strife between China and Tibet, scientists and experts say, according to a new report by Circle of Blue published today.

8 May 2008

Technology Expected to Alter Gasoline Dependence and Greatly Reduce CO2 Emissions

The revolutionary EFuel100 MicroFueler(TM) is the first product that allows anyone to reduce their dependency on oil, greatly diminish their carbon footprint and produce fuel for under $1.00 per gallon.

8 May 2008

Company Created an Eco-Friendly Water Vending Machine

Many schools in the US and Canada are boycotting bottled water in hopes of making a point about green living. To them, there's no reason to sacrifice the Earth's health for something that can be acquired through a faucet.

8 May 2008

Company Opens First LEED Certified Building

Chevron Corp. today announced the opening of the company's first LEED certified building and the first gold certified LEED building in the state of Louisiana. LEED is an acronym for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, a certification program of the United States Green Building Council.

8 May 2008