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Green Apple Environment Award Recognizes Chemical-Free Arsenic Removal Project

Queen’s University Belfast has won a national environment award. The top award was for a national campaign for finding the greenest communities, councils and companies in Britain.

29 Aug 2012

Teagasc and FACCE – JPI Organize ‘The Great Debate on the Battle to Feed a Changing Planet’

Teagasc, the agriculture and food development authority in Ireland, and the EU Joint Programming Initiative on Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change (FACCE – JPI), have jointly arranged a scientific session - ‘The Great Debate on the Battle to Feed a Changing Planet.’

7 Jul 2012

Health Canada: Take Precautions Using Reusable Grocery Bags and Bins

Health Canada is reminding Canadians to take steps to prevent cross-contamination of foods when shopping with reusable grocery bags and bins.

14 Jun 2012

Five Projects Shortlisted for Reed Elsevier Environmental Challenge

The Reed Elsevier Environmental Challenge has shortlisted the received entries for awarding the final prizes. Five projects that will provide safe water and sanitation through sustainable access have been chosen.

14 Jun 2012

Ferncroft Country Club To Implement Zero Food Waste Initiative

Ferncroft Country Club has announced that it is the first US country club to have implemented a Zero Food Waste Initiative, wherein a new Japanese fermentation technique called Bokashi has been adopted.

21 May 2012

Scientists Show Contaminated Inanimate Objects Cause Norovirus Infection

Scientists from Oregon Health and Sciences University and Oregon Public Health Division, Portland, have shown that even inanimate objects can transmit norovirus infection.

10 May 2012

Study Indicates Food Waste Disposed at Landfills Doubles Emission Level

InSinkErator, a Racine, Wisconsin-based business of Emerson, a producer of instant hot water dispensers and food waste disposers, has undertaken a professionally evaluated Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) study on the impact of a range of presently practiced food waste clearance systems.

16 Aug 2011

Used Oil Gets Converted into Biodiesel in Louisiana

Operation REACH, and AmeriCorps have started a new program called Golfsouth Youth Biodiesel Project, to convert used oil into biodiesel. Under the project, students from high school and college collect used oil from the restaurants in Louisiana.

29 Nov 2010

USPTO Extends Green Technology Fast Track Program

David Kappos, the Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) said that the deadline for filing petitions under the Green Technology Pilot Program has been extended from December 8, 2010 to December 31, 2011.

11 Nov 2010

OnGreen Gets $1.4M Investment

OnGreen, a web-based ‘green and clean’ market place, has announced a $1.4 million investment in raised from a fund that is jointly owned by Blue Marble Ventures in Los Angeles and China Southern Hong Kong Investment Ltd in Shanghai.

11 Nov 2010