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Energy Efficiency and Cost Savings For Californian Schools With Custom-Bilt Metal Roofs

Custom-Bilt Metals is pleased to announce its low-maintenance and energy-saving Titan Cool Roof metal roofing is helping Southwest College to significantly reduce its energy costs and contribute to green building energy certification

9 Dec 2008

Software Quantifies Carbon Sequestration of Urban Trees

U.S. Forest Service scientists are providing online software that can show users how much carbon dioxide an urban tree in California has sequestered in its lifetime and the past year

9 Dec 2008

World Leading Wave Power Comes From Dissertation

A technology that is adapted to the special conditions for wave energy places the wave energy technology from Uppsala on the absolute cutting edge in the world

9 Dec 2008

Including Tropical Deforestation Carbon Emissions In Climate Change Regulations Not Enough to Save Rainforests

Including carbon emissions from tropical deforestation in a future international climate regime will not suffice to protect the world's remaining tropical forests from expanding palm oil plantations

9 Dec 2008

Chi-Chang Kao Appointed Director of Joint Photon Sciences Institute at DoE Brookhaven Lab

Chi-Chang Kao, a physicist and leader in synchrotron light research, has been named founding Director of the Joint Photon Sciences Institute (JPSI) at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory

9 Dec 2008

Chemical Contamination in School Air May Be Making Your Child Sick

This morning USA TODAY released their study of schools where the outside air poses an unacceptable health risk from chemical contamination to young children and school staff

8 Dec 2008

Ener1 to Develop Batteries for Hybrid Electric Buses

Ener1, Inc. today announced a cooperative partnership to develop high-energy batteries for hybrid bus and heavy duty vehicle markets

8 Dec 2008

Riding the Green Dragon, Environmental Opportunities Abound in China

Developed world countries with the reputation of being green technology leaders are falling behind in the huge new market for green goods and services opening up in China

8 Dec 2008

Sandia and Mesa del Sol Enter New Sustainable Energy Era

Sandia National Laboratories and Mesa del Sol have signed a formal agreement supporting the research, development and demonstration of energy technologies in a real-life environment at Mesa del Sol — all toward the goal of achieving the nation's energy objectives and meeting national energy needs

8 Dec 2008

Climate Change Laws Unlikely to Force Companies Offshore

Fears that companies will simply relocate to "pollution havens" in the face of tougher climate policies and damage the international competitiveness of countries have little support from the evidence

8 Dec 2008