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.
Deutsche Bank takes clean tech seriously. A fact that was driven home by the appointment of Adam Bergman as a director in the firm’s global clean technology corporate coverage group.
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.
Third quarter investments in cleantech venture capital funding in 2010 have suffered as per a report from Ernst & Young and Dow Jones VentureSource.
VELUX America has declared the availability of ‘No Leak Skylight’. The new Skylight system is actually an upgrade of the company's earlier skylight line of products that underwent major changes with the introduction of superior energy efficiency glass and increased safeguard against incursion of roof water. The No Leak Skylight for the first time is offered with a no leak product guarantee.
The EcoCommercial Building Program for sustainable construction continues to expand. SilenceSolutions, a leading specialist for the acoustic interior design of office and industrial buildings, is new to the global network led by Bayer MaterialScience
Spanish and Scottish researchers have added wool fibres to the clay material used to make bricks and combined these with an alginate, a natural polymer extracted from seaweed. The result is bricks that are stronger and more environmentally-friendly, according to the study published recently in the journal Construction and Building Materials.
In a real-life “back to the future” story, scientists today reported that the sustainable, environmentally-friendly process that gave birth to plywood a century ago is re-emerging as a “green” alternative to wood adhesives made from petroleum.
Loughborough University today (Monday 27 September) welcomes a special delegation of visitors from the National University of Civil Engineering (NUCE) in Hanoi, Vietnam. The four visitors will be look at sustainability in the UK’s construction industry
The American Institute of Architects’ (AIA) Committee on the Environment (COTE) has named its top ten green building projects for 2010, and at least five of them feature environmentally advanced glass or coatings made by PPG Industries.
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