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Sustainability Education Initiative Specifically Tailored to Meet the Needs of Foodservice Industry

Kendall College's School of Culinary Arts has announced an ecological sustainability education initiative, specifically tailored to meet the needs of the foodservice industry. Announced today at the National Restaurant Association Restaurant Hotel-Motel Show, the nationwide initiative was launched with the release of a brief instructional video.

19 May 2008

Ponds Capture Carbon in Two Main Ways

Research led by Iowa State University limnologist, or lake scientist, John Downing finds that ponds around the globe could absorb as much carbon as the world's oceans.

8 May 2008

Amazon Rainforest Coming Under Threat From Cleaner Air

The Amazon rainforest, so crucial to the Earth's climate system, is coming under threat from cleaner air say prominent UK and Brazilian climate scientists in the leading scientific journal Nature.

7 May 2008

Global Warming Likely to Reduce Health of Tropical Species

Global warming is likely to reduce the health of tropical species, scientists from UCLA and the University of Washington report May 6 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

5 May 2008

Green Windmill Power to Come to the Aid of Thousands of Rural Pond and Lake Owners

Outdoor Water Solutions (OWS) is using old fashioned technology to come to the aid of thousands of rural pond and lake owners employing environmentally friendly windmill power.

1 May 2008

Healdsburg, Newport Beach and Petaluma Roll Out City-wide Water Savings Initiative

Healdsburg, Newport Beach and Petaluma have implemented the WeatherTRAK(R) smart water management solution to conserve water at parks and other landscaped sites.

29 Apr 2008

Connections Between Atmospheric CO2 and the Breakdown of Minerals in Earth’s Crust

Over millions of years carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere have been moderated by a finely-tuned natural feedback system- a system that human emissions have recently overwhelmed.

29 Apr 2008

Company's Environmental Research Efforts Deepen with New Power Aware Program

As part of its Sustainable Computing Program, Microsoft Corp. today announced it will support four academic research projects focused on energy efficiency in computing in the areas of datacenter power efficiency, power management and the creation of parallel computing architecture with decreased power demands.

28 Apr 2008

Discovery of Ocean Currents Could Dramatically Improve Forecasts of Climate

An international collaborative of scientists led by Peter Niiler, a physical oceanographer at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, and Nikolai Maximenko, a researcher at the International Pacific Research Center, University of Hawaii, has detected the presence of crisscrossing patterns of currents running throughout the world's oceans.

25 Apr 2008

Richer Plant Diversity Significantly Enhances an Ecosystem's Productivity

In the first experiment involving a natural environment, scientists at Brown University have shown that richer plant diversity significantly enhances an ecosystem's productivity. The finding underscores the benefits of biodiversity, such as capturing carbon dioxide, a main contributor to global warming.

24 Apr 2008