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KFC and Taco Bell Operate First Green Restaurant

Yum! Brands the world's largest restaurant company and parent of Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, KFC, has opened an environmentally-friendly KFC-Taco Bell restaurant in Northampton, Massachusetts

9 Mar 2009

Solar Hot Water Systems Pay For Themselves Five Times

An analysis of the engineering and economics for a solar water-heating system shows it to have a payback period of just two years, according to researchers in India

9 Mar 2009

Cellulosic Biofuels Promise A Low Cost, Environmental Friendly Petroleum Replacement

Cellulosic biofuels offer similar, if not lower, costs and very large reductions in greenhouse gas emissions compared to petroleum-derived fuels

5 Mar 2009

NASA and Cisco Team Up To Monitor Climate Change With Planetary Skin Project

NASA and Cisco Inc. announced Tuesday a partnership to develop an online collaborative global monitoring platform called the "Planetary Skin" to capture, collect, analyze and report data on environmental conditions around the world

4 Mar 2009

Sustainability Hits The Slopes With Elastomer Made From Renewable Resources Being Used in Winter Sporting Goods

This month DuPont Engineering Polymers launches one of the first uses worldwide of DuPont Hytrel RS thermoplastic elastomer in sporting goods applications

3 Mar 2009

Penn State Researchers Turn Carbon Dioxide into Methane Fuel Using the Sun

At Penn State, a team of researchers led by Craig Grimes has come up with an ingenious method of turning captured CO2 into methane, a combustible fuel, using the energy of the sun

2 Mar 2009

Making a High-Energy Fuel by Recycling a Greenhouse Gas Using the Sun

A team of researchers at Penn State has come up with an ingenious method of turning captured CO2 into methane using the energy of the sun

1 Mar 2009

Media and Entertainment Industries Want to Go Green But Are Doing a Bad Job Getting There

A nearly unanimous 99 percent of IT professionals feel that it is important for their digital media and entertainment industry-related businesses to reduce their carbon footprint, and most are becoming much more aware of ecological issues due to recent press, celebrity involvement, and consumer demand

24 Feb 2009

Green Ammunition Introduced to Solve Problems of Toxic Chemical Residue and Unexploded Ordnance on Defence Force Training Ranges

U.S. subsidiary, American Rheinmetall Munitions, is pleased to announce partial integration of Mk281 "green ammunition" at the National Training Center (NTC), Fort Irwin, California

23 Feb 2009

New Research Report Looks At the Amount of Corn Used for Food and For Ethanol Fuel

About 60 percent of South Dakota’s corn went into ethanol production by 2007-08, the highest proportion of any state. In Iowa the figure was 50 percent, in Nebraska, 40 percent, and in Minnesota and Illinois, 30 percent. The increasing rate of corn for ethanol use has affected the availability of corn for feed and exports

23 Feb 2009