In many villages throughout Tibet, there are two ways to cook a meal. There's the traditional open fire, fueled by yak dung or the region's increasingly scarce wood. And then there are solar cookers, concentrating mirrors made of two-inch-thick concrete and covered with a mosaic of small glass mirrors.
Seminole Electric Cooperative's plans for a new clean coal generating unit are back on track following this morning's Appeals Court order directing the state to issue a needed permit.
Delta-Montrose Electric Association (DMEA) announced at its annual meeting Friday, June 13, 2008, that the cooperative will give its membership 100,000 FREE compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) by the end of the year, with most being distributed this summer.
Hacker Group, a full-service direct marketing agency, has created the Green Marketing Coalition (GMC). Realizing there were no industry-wide green marketing standards or guidelines, Hacker Group formed the GMC to provide tools to organizations interested in incorporating green marketing into their businesses practices. For Hacker Group, the green process began last year, and it has since changed the way it operates from top to bottom.
Two papers published in the journal Science today* by Microsoft Research ecologist Drew Purves together with research colleagues at Princeton University and universities in Madrid, Spain, highlight how an improved understanding of forest dynamics is needed to better predict environmental change.
Mr. Handyman, the national home repair and maintenance franchise and the nation's No. 1 employer of handymen, is leveraging its access to hundreds of local households with practical energy-savings solutions that could effectively decrease water usage by millions of gallons each month and significantly reduce the region's energy consumption overall.
Sheila Kennedy, an expert in the integration of solar cell technology in architecture who is now at MIT, creates designs for flexible photovoltaic materials that may change the way buildings receive and distribute energy.
As American consumers and businesses struggle with the myriad of light bulb choices available to achieve energy efficiency and other objectives, Lutron Electronics Co., Inc., has created an easy-to-read website designed to answer the basic question, "What is the best light bulb for me?"
In its commitment to energy savings, sustainability and lowering energy costs, Kentucky-based Thorntons Inc., has selected Wisconsin-based BetaLED exterior luminaires for 13 properties, and all future renovations and new construction. The company recently opened a convenience store with gas in Edgewood, KY., and is the first-ever LED store in the state.
BioSolar, Inc., developer of a breakthrough technology to produce bio-based materials from renewable plant sources that reduce the cost of photovoltaic solar cells, has been cited in recent news media reports exploring the increasing demand for bio-based solar cell components, which will help the entire industry make photovoltaic solar cells more financially viable by substantially lowering the cost of the cells through the use of petroleum-free materials.
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