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Greenleaf Biofuels Reaches Significant Milestone

Greenleaf Biofuels, LLC, announced today that as of October 31, 2013, the Company produced its 1 millionth gallon of biodiesel. In commercial production at its New Haven Terminal location since this summer, reaching this milestone was a key goal for the Company and for the biofuel industry in Connecticut and New England.

6 Dec 2013

Carrier, Otis Convene Lecture Series to Promote Green Building Opportunities in Middle East

In order to promote green building opportunities in a region known for having one of the world's highest per capita consumption rates of electricity, Carrier and Otis convened their Distinguished Sustainability Lecture Series this week in the Middle East.

6 Dec 2013

ABM’s Energy Business Successfully Commissions 1.2MW Solar Array in Baltimore

ABM, a leading provider of facility solutions, announced today that ABM’s energy business has successfully commissioned a 1.2 MW solar array in Baltimore, Md., representing one of the largest solar installations to date in the Baltimore metropolitan area.

6 Dec 2013

Clayton Homes Participates in TVA’s ENERGY STAR Manufactured Homes Pilot Program

Clayton Homes recently participated in The Tennessee Valley Authority’s (TVA’s) ENERGY STAR® Manufactured Homes pilot program. The initiative was launched to encourage the manufactured housing industry to produce more energy-efficient homes and consumers to upgrade to ENERGY STAR® qualification.

6 Dec 2013

Study Discovers Link Between Sea Ice Conditions and Melting Rate of Totten Glacier

A new NASA-led study has discovered an intriguing link between sea ice conditions and the melting rate of Totten Glacier, the glacier in East Antarctica that discharges the most ice into the ocean. The discovery, involving cold, extra salty water - brine - that forms within openings in sea ice, adds to our understanding of how ice sheets interact with the ocean, and may improve our ability to forecast and prepare for future sea level rise.

6 Dec 2013

Vermilion’s Environmental Partnership with Tom d'Aqui Earns French Ecology Award

Vermilion Energy Inc. ("Vermilion") is pleased to announce that its environmental partnership with the tomato growing company Tom d'Aqui in Parentis-en-Born (France Aquitaine Basin) has earned a national ecology award from the French government.

5 Dec 2013

Winners of Cleantech Open’s Global Ideas Competition Announced

The Cleantech Open, the world's largest clean-technology accelerator, has announced the winners of the Global Ideas Competition. Now in its fifth year, the Cleantech Open Global Ideas Competition brings early-stage startups with breakthrough cleantech ideas to Silicon Valley to compete for the Global Ideas Prize.

5 Dec 2013

Concord Blue and LanzaTech Partner to Demonstrate Production of Fuels from Waste Materials

Concord Blue USA, Inc. and LanzaTech have entered into an agreement to integrate their individually proven technologies to demonstrate the production of fuels and chemicals from waste materials.

5 Dec 2013

Upper Ocean Crust Could Safely Store Large Volumes of Carbon Dioxide

Researchers from the University of Southampton have identified regions beneath the oceans where the igneous rocks of the upper ocean crust could safely store very large volumes of carbon dioxide.

5 Dec 2013

Global Warming Shrinks Massive Plates of Sea Ice in the Arctic Ocean

For the past three decades, as the climate has warmed, the massive plates of sea ice in the Arctic Ocean have shrunk: In 2007, scientists observed nearly 50 percent less summer ice than had been seen in 1980.

5 Dec 2013

Carbon Dioxide Pumped Into the Air Affects Carbon Cycle of the Coastal Ocean

Carbon dioxide pumped into the air since the Industrial Revolution appears to have changed the way the coastal ocean functions, according to a new analysis published this week in Nature.

5 Dec 2013

Fish Get Anxious When Exposed to Acidified Ocean Conditions

A new research study combining marine physiology, neuroscience, pharmacology and behavioral psychology has revealed a surprising outcome from increases of carbon dioxide uptake in the oceans: anxious fish.

5 Dec 2013

Rapid Regional Climate Changes Had Occurred with a Time Difference of 120 Years

Regional climate changes can be very rapid. A German-British team of geoscientists now reports that such a rapid climate change occurred in different regions with a time difference of 120 years. Investigation in the west German Eifel region and in southern Norway demonstrated that at the end of the last glaciation about 12,240 years before present climate became warmer, first recognised in the Eifel region and 120 years later in southern Norway. Nonetheless, the warming was equally rapid in both regions.

5 Dec 2013

SunEdison and New York City Launch Innovative Solar Energy Project

SunEdison, one of the world's largest solar energy providers, last week introduced an innovative renewable energy project in partnership with America's largest city.

5 Dec 2013

Pollutec Horizons 2013: Ontario Clean Technology Alliance Invites Global Investments

As Canada enjoys a $350 billion “infrastructure supercycle” over the next five years, the Ontario Clean Technology Alliance – a collective of regional and municipal economic development organizations across Ontario – is attending Pollutec Horizons 2013 in Paris.

5 Dec 2013