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Farming Pushed Natural Drought into Disaster

Climate scientists using computer models to simulate the 1930s Dust Bowl on the U.S Great Plains have found that dust raised by farmers probably amplified and spread a natural drop in rainfall, turning an ordinary drying cycle into an agricultural collapse.

30 Apr 2008

Making the Best Economic and Environmental Choice Starts by Figuring Out the Facts

It's sunshine, it's free, it's simple enough-right? With all the dizzying things to consider, from interpreting your power bill and reviewing solar proposals to comparing paying cash with lower-cost offerings, the process of switching to solar can leave a homeowner buried in paperwork.

30 Apr 2008

CDI Engineering Selected by Silfab for Polysilicon Technology Integration Services

CDI Corp. announced today that its CDI Engineering Solutions business unit has been selected by Silfab S.p.A. to provide technology integration, basic engineering and detailed engineering services for Silfab's solar grade polysilicon manufacturing project to be built in Borgofranco d'Ivrea, Italy.

30 Apr 2008

Renovation of Hydro Plant Increases Supply of Clean, Renewable Electricity

A PPL Corporation subsidiary will renovate and recommission its Orono, Maine, hydroelectric plant, adding 20,000 megawatt-hours per year of clean, renewable electricity to the region's power supplies.

30 Apr 2008

An Energy-Efficient Solution for Lighting

With consumer interest in energy-efficient lighting growing rapidly, the next wave of mass-market residential and business lighting could be coming from LEDs - light-emitting diodes, also known as solid-state lighting.

29 Apr 2008

To Better Understand the Regional Climate-Change Picture

The state of Alaska has the dubious distinction of leading the lower 48 in the effects of a warming climate. Small villages are slipping into the sea due to coastal erosion, soggy permafrost is cracking buildings and trapping trucks.

29 Apr 2008

The First Multi-Crop Seed Brand Supplying New Market for Biofuel Feedstocks

Energy crop company Ceres, Inc. plans to market its agricultural seeds and traits under the trade name Blade Energy Crops in the United States. Company president and CEO Richard Hamilton unveiled the new brand at the BIO World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology in Chicago earlier today.

29 Apr 2008

Beacon Power to Provide Flywheel Energy Storage System in Support of Wind Power Integration Project

Beacon Power Corporation, a company that designs and develops advanced products and services to support more stable, reliable and efficient electricity grid operation, announced today that it has been awarded a subcontract to provide a flywheel energy storage system in support of a wind integration R+D project sponsored by the California Energy Commission.

29 Apr 2008

Santa Clara Ranks As the Second Largest Green Power Community

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has named the City of Santa Clara a Green Power Community, making the City only one of 14 communities to receive such an honor.

29 Apr 2008

Solar Center to Produce Enough Electricity to Power at Least 800 Homes

Department of Environmental Protection Secretary Kathleen A. McGinty today hailed an announcement by the city of Philadelphia that a vacant, seven-acre brownfield at the Navy Yard will soon help to meet Pennsylvania's energy needs with clean, renewable solar technology.

29 Apr 2008