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New Website Offers Most Generous Rewards Program for Greener Living

The new EcoPerks experience launches today offering simple ways to live a more carbon neutral lifestyle while earning EcoPoints to be used toward valuable rewards.

14 Apr 2008

Solar Cell Prototypes Reveal a 15-20% Growth of Electrical Power

Global Warming Solutions, Inc. - a developer of technologies aimed at mitigating the effects of global warming -today provided an update on the progress of its joint testing with Solar Wind, Ltd.

14 Apr 2008

Award Program Honors U.S. Schools in Addressing Global Warming

Butte College in Oroville, California has been named the Grand Prize Winner in the National Wildlife Federation's Chill Out: Campus Solutions to Global Warming nationwide competition.

14 Apr 2008

Focusing on Energy Efficiency Investments

With everyone talking about skyrocketing energy costs and the environment, executives are continuing to focus on energy efficiency investments, according to new research commissioned by Johnson Controls.

14 Apr 2008

Providing Opportunity for Young People to Learn About Carbon Footprints

National Environmental Education Week (EE Week), the largest organized environmental education event in the U.S., launched today with over 1600 partner organizations, and millions of teachers, students and others in step. This year, EE Week provides an opportunity for young people to learn about carbon footprints -- both how they are created and what can be done to shrink them.

14 Apr 2008

Concern About Environment and Global Warming Impacting on Buying Habits

Concern about the environment and global warming is not only influencing how consumers live their lives, but also impacting their buying habits.

14 Apr 2008

TRC Earns Award for Protecting the Environment through Energy Efficiency

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has named TRC's Energy Services division as a 2008 ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year for outstanding energy management and reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. TRC's accomplishments were recognized at an awards ceremony in Washington, D.C. on April 1, 2008.

11 Apr 2008

Transparent Glass Containing Solar Cells Could Capture Enough Energy to Power a Home

Professor John Bell said QUT had worked with a Canberra-based company Dyesol, which is developing transparent solar cells that act as both windows and energy generators in houses or commercial buildings.

11 Apr 2008

Leading By Example, Parducci Adopts 100% Green Power

Parducci Wine Cellars, the nation's first carbon neutral winery, announces the company's conversion to 100% solar and wind power.

11 Apr 2008

An Oil Company Agreed to a Date Certain End of Production

The Environmental Defense Center (EDC), Get Oil Out! (GOO!), and Citizens Planning Association of Santa Barbara (CPA) announced today that they have signed an historic and unprecedented agreement that will allow for development by Plains Exploration + Production Company (PXP) of the Tranquillon Ridge Oil and Gas Field off Lompoc, while curtailing the life of existing oil and gas operations offshore Lompoc and the Gaviota Coast.

11 Apr 2008