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GM Receives Neighborhood Environmental Partner Awards for Seventh Year

General Motors and seven of its facilities are being recognized by the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality for longtime support of environment-focused community collaboration. GM remains the leader for most Neighborhood Environmental Partner awards granted since the program began in 2005.

20 Sep 2013

Green Building Thought Leaders Assemble at Carrier’s Distinguished Sustainability Lecture Series

Two of the most rapidly expanding construction markets in the world are leveraging Carrier’s natural leadership to support their growing commitment to green building. Through its prestigious Distinguished Sustainability Lecture Series, Carrier, the world’s leader in high technology heating, air-conditioning and refrigeration solutions, has assembled some of the world’s most respected green building thought leaders to inform building owners and designers in China and India. Carrier is a part of UTC Climate, Controls & Security, a unit of United Technologies Corp.

20 Sep 2013

Fortum, DCNS and AW-Energy Partner to Develop 1.5 MW Wave Power Demonstration Project

Energy signed a development agreement in wave power research and development with the support of La Région Bretagne. As part of the agreement, the companies will develop a joint 1.5 MW wave power demonstration project. The wave power technology chosen for the project is WaveRoller™.

20 Sep 2013

Soitec Enters Contract with U.S. DoD’s ESTCP for Fort Irwin 1 MW Solar Project

Soitec (Euronext), a world leader in generating and manufacturing revolutionary semiconductor materials for the electronics and energy industries, announced today that a contract has been signed with the U.S. Department of Defense’s Environmental Security Technology Certification Program (ESTCP) for a 1 MWAC solar project at Fort Irwin, California.

From Soitec 20 Sep 2013

Nice-Pak Plans 855 kW Roof-Top Solar Array Installation at Orangeburg Headquarters

Nice-Pak Products, Inc. ("Nice-Pak") and its affiliate company, PDI, today announced plans to install an 855kw solar array on the roof of its headquarters in Orangeburg, New York. Installation began in late August and will take an estimated six weeks to finish.

20 Sep 2013

Woodhead Publishing: Advanced Techniques for Fuel Flexible, High Efficiency and Low Emission Combustion

Fluidized bed (FB) combustion and gasification are advanced techniques for fuel flexible, high efficiency and low emission conversion.

19 Sep 2013

Teijin Provides ECOPET Recycled Green Carpet for Tokyo International Film Festival

Teijin Limited announced today that, for the sixth consecutive year, it will provide an eco-friendly Green Carpet made with ECOPET recycled polyester fiber derived from used polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles for the Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) Opening a new window. The event is one of Asia's most competitive film festivals and will be held at the upscale Roppongi Hills complex and other Tokyo venues from October 17 to 25.

19 Sep 2013

Environmental Stewardship Award for Southern Arizona Presented to TEP

An association of Arizona business, civic, academic and nonprofit organizations presented Tucson Electric Power (TEP) with an environmental stewardship award for the company's leadership and continued investment in solar energy at the University of Arizona Science and Technology Park's Solar Zone.

19 Sep 2013

Blue Sphere Signs Binding MOU for Landfill Gas to Energy Project in Ivory Coast

Blue Sphere Corp. (the "Company" or "Blue Sphere"), a company in the cleantech sector as a waste-to-energy and clean energy project integrator, is pleased to announce that it has signed a binding memorandum of understanding in respect of a 3-6 MW landfill gas to energy project at the Akouedo Landfill in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.

19 Sep 2013

Biotricity Secures Contract on Supply of Feedstock for Biomass Electricity Generation Plant in Ireland

Irish renewable company, Biotricity Ltd., has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Irish Farmers' Association covering the purchase and management of straw feedstock for its Rhode, Co. Offaly biomass plant in the Irish midlands which is scheduled to come into production from late 2015.

19 Sep 2013

Rioglass Solar Signs Contract with Siemens CSP for Receiver Technology Acquisition

Rioglass Solar, the leading manufacturer of mirrors used for Concentrating Solar Power, has signed an agreement with Siemens CSP, for the acquisition of the receiver technology and related manufacturing assets.

19 Sep 2013

Greenwood Biosar to Deliver Five Santerno Solar Inverters at Romanian Solar Project

Santerno, the Carraro Group company that specializes in alternative energy electronics and industrial automation, has signed an agreement with Greenwood Biosar, the engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) division of Greenwood Energy, to deliver five Santerno TG760 1000V solar inverters for installation at a new solar project in Calarasi, Romania.

19 Sep 2013

ASU Student Studies Impact of Climate Change on Nepali Farmers

In a country where she didn’t know anyone, couldn’t speak the language and was a stranger to the culture, Tayler Jenkins pushed through her mission to research sustainable agriculture and livelihoods of smallholder farmers in Nepal.

19 Sep 2013

Marine Scotland Awards Consent to MeyGen for 86MW Tidal Energy Project

MeyGen Ltd. has been awarded consent by Marine Scotland for an 86MW tidal energy project in the Pentland Firth. The largest tidal stream energy project in Europe to receive consent, it constitutes the first phase of a site that has the potential to yield up to 398MW.

18 Sep 2013

New Approach Provides Early Warning of Potential Overfishing Threats

A new UC Santa Barbara study shows that threats created by overfishing can be identified decades before the fish species at risk experience high overly harvest rates and subsequent population declines.

18 Sep 2013