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Powering Wireless Environmental Sensors With Vibration and Solar Energy

Midé Technology has combined the Volture™ Vibration energy harvester with the Volture™ Solar Energy Harvester to power physical or environmental condition monitoring systems with a wireless hybrid product

27 Oct 2008

Window Film Use Can Give 30 Percent Energy Savings

Energy Experts Agree: Look to Solar Gard® or Panorama® Window Films for Proven Energy Savings

27 Oct 2008

Report Released on Immune System Response to Toxic Environmental Chemical Dibutyltin or DBT

An international team of researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and the University of Basel in Switzerland have issued a report on the mechanism of toxicity of a chemical compound called Dibutyltin (DBT)

27 Oct 2008

Renewable Fuels Become Topics of McCain and Obama Campaigns for President

In the past two weeks, key energy advisors to the McCain and Obama presidential campaigns, respectively, shared their views on ethanol

27 Oct 2008

BREEAM Environmental Standards for Building Launched Into The Gulf Region

BRE Global has launched its world-leading environmental standard BREEAM into the Gulf region

27 Oct 2008

Future of Low Carbon Home Heating Shown Off in Eco House

Mitsubishi Electric is using Interbuild to demonstrate its comprehensive range of Ecodan residential water and space heating products which offer UK households reduced running costs from a viable and sustainable low carbon alternative to gas and oil

27 Oct 2008

New Energy Saving Building Code Introduced for Michigan Residents

A long-awaited state energy code, requiring homebuilders to use modern energy efficiency measures in new home construction, will now be in effect

26 Oct 2008

Good Design is Good Business, and Good Design is Green

Delegates to a recent conference on sustainable development heralded a recurring green urban theme: "Good design is good business, and good design is green." The group also pointed to innovative entrepreneurship in sustainable business as the cure for energy demands and an ailing US economy.

26 Oct 2008

Study to Find Grass to the Power Bioenergy Era

Cornell bioenergy plant experts are learning which field grasses are the best candidates for "dedicated energy" crops in the Northeast, considering the region's climate and soil conditions

23 Oct 2008

Oak Ridge Labs to Improve Energy Efficiency of Industry

Four Oak Ridge National Laboratory technologies to improve energy efficiency in industry have won funding from the Department of Energy’s Industrial Technologies Program

23 Oct 2008