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BREEAM Datacentre Scheme Used by Digital Realty Trust For Their Buildings Around the World

Digital Realty Trust have adopted the BREEAM Datacentre scheme for their buildings throughout the world and expect to achieve significant environmental and cost savings by doing this

31 Mar 2009

BRE Innovation Park to Include Green Apartment Block and Retail Outlet

Work starts this week on a Code for Sustainable Homes Level 6 four-storey apartment block complete with an retail store which will form part of the Phase II expansion of the BRE Innovation Park

31 Mar 2009

National Wind Launches Initiative for Minority Business Owners

National Wind Solutions, Inc. (PinkSheets: NWND) announced today that it has launched a new initiative aimed at helping minority business owners launch alternative energy projects in the wind and fuel cell industries

31 Mar 2009

Passive Solar Energy System a Success for The Energy Crowd

theEnergyCrowd.com the crowd-source based developer of renewable energy technologies has announced that the initial stage of its first project has proved successful. A passive solar energy based system for capturing heat energy for either long or short term storage started producing results - even during late winter months

31 Mar 2009

Construction Begins on the Team California 2009 Solar Decathlon House

While thousands of students have been away on spring break, a handful of them stayed behind to begin construction on their solar-powered house for the U.S. Department of Energy’s 2009 Solar Decathlon

31 Mar 2009

Microbes Use Electricity to Produce Methane Renewable Fuel From Carbon Dioxide

A tiny microbe can take electricity and directly convert carbon dioxide and water to methane, producing a portable energy source with a potentially neutral carbon footprint, according to a team of Penn State engineers

30 Mar 2009

American Iron and Steel Institute Work With Automakers to Meet New Emissions Requirements Announced by the Department of Transportation

The American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) said today that it is actively supporting automakers as they work to produce more fuel-efficient and environmentally friendly vehicles that can meet the Department of Transportation's (DOT) new requirements

30 Mar 2009

Detroit Electric and Proton Team Up To Make Affordable and Practical Pure Electric Cars

Detroit Electric to produce and market full line of innovative Pure Electric vehicles in US, UK, EU and China beginning 2010

30 Mar 2009

USGBC Environmental Award Presented for FBI Building in Chicago

Recently, the Federal Bureau of Investigation Regional Facility, located in Chicago, Illinois, officially received a Platinum-level Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design for Existing Buildings (LEED EBOM) award from the United States Green Building Council (USGBC)

30 Mar 2009

Linde Group to Supply Gases for Next-Gen Thin Film Photovoltaic Production for Masdar in Germany

The Linde Group has been awarded a long-term contract to supply all the gases for next-generation thin-film photovoltaic (PV) module production at Masdar's manufacturing site in Erfurt, Germany

30 Mar 2009