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Reed Elsevier Environmental Challenge Invites Submissions to Improve Access to Safe Water

Reed Elsevier has declared the launch of ‘the Reed Elsevier Environmental Challenge’ inviting entries of novel concepts to assure an improved level of sanitation and safe water for implementing in communities where access to such facilities poses a danger.

2 Nov 2011

Coatex Receives Best Coating Raw Materials Environmental Friendly Award

Coatex, has been honored with the ‘Best Coating Raw Materials Environmental Friendly Award’ on 18 October, 2011, at the Shanghai held Green Industrial Coating Asia (GICA) 2011.

1 Nov 2011

KONE Announces its Inclusion in Carbon Disclosure Project

KONE, a globally known escalator and elevator company, has been nominated as one among the 26 companies that figured in the Nordic Carbon Disclosure Leadership Index of Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP).

27 Oct 2011

Bayer MaterialScience Meet the Challenges of Sustainable urban Development

Bayer MaterialScience is meeting the challenges of increasing urbanization with cross-industry concepts for sustainable urban development.

26 Oct 2011

More Endorsements for Camco for its Energy Saving Solutions

Camco, a global developer of clean energy solutions and projects to reduce greenhouse gas emissions has been crowned “Sustainable Consultancy of the Year” for its work in the sustainable housing sector.

25 Oct 2011

Sandia Receives Awards for its Sustainability and Energy Efficiency

Sandia National Laboratories has reduced its water use by 30 percent since 2008 and its energy intensity by more than 8 percent since 2005 in nationally recognized efforts to integrate sustainable planning and design into its operations and facilities.

25 Oct 2011

Bayer MaterialScience Provide Sustainable Solutions to Global Problems

How can we strike a balance between megatrends like climate protection and rising global mobility? What possibilities do plastics offer for increasing the range of electric cars? When it comes to lighting, can energy efficiency, safety and modern design be combined? And how can we conserve dwindling resources if product quality is to remain at a high level?

19 Oct 2011

Redox Flow Batteries Could be a Renewable Energy Solution

Nowadays there is a wide variety of energy storage technologies at very different stages of development. Among them, the Redox Flow Battery (RFB) is an innovative solution based on the use of liquid electrolytes stored in tanks and pumped through a reactor to produce energy.

16 Oct 2011

Alcoa Invests $3 Million to Develop Information Center on Sustainability

Alcoa proclaimed that the company’s Canadian Global Primary Products Operations and the new Centre for Sustainable Development have signed a partnership deal.

10 Oct 2011

Memorial National College Grants Award Program Announced For The 37th Year

The Pittsburgh Conference and its sponsoring societies, the Spectroscopy Society of Pittsburgh (SSP) and the Society for Analytical Chemists of Pittsburgh (SACP), are now accepting proposals for the 2012 Pittsburgh Conference Memorial National College Grants (PCMNCG) Award Program.

From Pittcon 9 Oct 2011