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Portable Light Project Wins Technology Award

A groundbreaking renewable energy project directed by Sheila Kennedy, professor of the practice of architecture at MIT and principal of KVA MATx in Boston, has won an international award for technology that benefits humanity

9 Sep 2008

Mexico City Smog May Come From Garbage, Not Motor Vehicles

A new report by scientists who are part of the international MILAGRO Campaign indicates that some of the most harmful air pollution in Mexico City may not come from motor vehicles but instead originates with industrial sources – and that the culprit may be garbage incineration

8 Sep 2008

Earth Animal Found to be Able to Survive the Freezing, High Radiation, Vacuum of Deep Space

New research shows that some animals are able to do away with space suits and can survive exposure to open-space vacuum, cold and radiation

8 Sep 2008

Electric Vehicle Battery Company to List on the Stockmarket

Earlier this month, lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery manufacturer A123Systems sought to capitalize on the interest in electric and hybrid vehicles, filing for an IPO

8 Sep 2008

Fishing For Energy Project Takes Abandoned Fishing Equipment and Turns It Into Electricity

“Fishing for Energy,” an innovative partnership to recycle fishing equipment into energy, has expanded to Newport, Rhode Island

8 Sep 2008

Green Star Alternative Energy To Build Wind Energy Project in Serbia

Green Star Alternative Energy announces the development of a new wind energy project in the Republic of Serbia. The 20 Megawatt (MW) Belo Blato wind farm will be the initial phase of a 300 MW development plan. It will be the country’s first alternative energy project to generate renewable, emission-free power from wind

8 Sep 2008

Bacteria in Compost Could Provide 10 Percent of Transport Fuel for the UK

Bacteria found in compost heaps able to convert waste plant fibre into ethanol could eventually provide up 10percent of the UK's transport fuel needs

8 Sep 2008

Ammonia Recovery Facility to be Built in New York City

ThermoEnergy Corporation today announced the signing of a formal agreement with Earth Tech, Inc., part of AECOM one of the worlds largest environmental and infrastructure engineering companies, to act as Construction Manager as well as perform the civil engineering work for the Company's multi-million dollar Ammonia Recovery Process

8 Sep 2008

Managing Forests as Carbon Storage Solutions to Offset Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Scientists who have determined how much carbon is stored annually in upper Midwest forests hope their findings will be used to accelerate global discussion about the strategy of managing forests to offset greenhouse gas emissions

8 Sep 2008

Enzyme Discovery Could Lead to The Development of New Biofuels

U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory has discovered a fundamental shift in an enzyme's function that could help expand the toolbox for engineering biofuels and other plant based oil products

8 Sep 2008