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SABIC Innovative Plastics Introduces New Materials to Increase the Appeal of Environmentally Friendly Condensing Boilers

To enhance the cost and environmental benefits of wall-hung condensing boilers for residential use, SABIC Innovative Plastics offers high-performance Noryl, Ultem and Cycoloy resins to replace traditional metals such as copper and brass used in boiler components, such as condenser housings and manifolds

21 Apr 2009

Insulation Contract For BBS Headquarters Renovation Goes to Rockwool

Rockwool, the world's leading manufacturer of non-combustible stone wool insulation solutions, has won the contract to supply insulation materials worth approximately £1 million for the BBC's refurbished Broadcasting House headquarters in central London

21 Apr 2009

Will Anaheim University Become The World's First Paperless University?

Anaheim University, the nationally accredited California-based institution, who pioneered online education in the mid-nineties as one of the world's first entirely online universities to host live web-based classes taught by experts, has now committed to being paperless by 2010

20 Apr 2009

Green World Studios Announce Green World Energy Solutions Feature Length Documentary Film Series

Green World Studios; an innovative, environmentally conscious company that operates all equipment with clean, renewable, solar power. Green World Energy Solutions premieres on April 20, 2009 and has been created for network television distribution

20 Apr 2009

Growth Potential in Tidal Power Says Atlantis Resources

Marine power technology company Atlantis Resources Corp. sees strong growth possibilities ahead, and is banking on this so-far underdeveloped area becoming a big renewable energy growth sector worldwide

20 Apr 2009

Climate Change Means Colorado River Will Not Get All The Water It Needs

Scripps researchers find that currently scheduled water deliveries from the Colorado River are unlikely to be met if human-caused climate change reduces runoff in the region

20 Apr 2009

Campus Trees Mean Big Emissions Reductions for the University of California San Diego

The University of California San Diego, one of the nation’s greenest universities, discovered that the total effect of its 200,000 trees was a reduction of nearly 10,000 tons of carbon dioxide emissions per year, or 5 percent of its annual emissions

20 Apr 2009

Solar Power Could Be Diminished by Global Warming Atmospheric Engineering Scheme

A widely discussed "atmospheric engineering" scheme intended to combat global warming could have unanticipated consequences in reducing the effectiveness of certain kinds of solar power around the Earth

20 Apr 2009

Ethanol From Sugarcane Already Meets California Low Carbon Fuel Standard

Industry comments submitted to California Air Resources Board underscore sugarcane ethanol's recognized carbon reduction levels

20 Apr 2009

Coping With Climate Change Discussed By Indigenous Peoples at World Summit

With the first climate change-related relocation of an Inuit village already underway, some 400 Indigenous People and observers from 80 nations are convening in Alaska for a UN-affiliated conference April 20-24 to discuss ways in which traditional knowledge can be used to both mitigate and adapt to climate change

20 Apr 2009