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Diesel-Powered Emergency Backup Generators Play a Vital Role during Hurricane Sandy

As communities throughout the East Coast and Mid-Atlantic continue to deal with the devastating winds and flooding from Hurricane Sandy, diesel-powered emergency backup generators are working to provide power to hospitals, nuclear power plants, emergency response centers, and other critical facilities.

2 Nov 2012

New Report on the Global Market for E-Waste

E-waste is one of the fastest growing waste streams. Waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) recyclers represent a booming opportunity worldwide. Tons of e-waste is being generated as the life cycle of computers, printers, television, mobile phones, music systems, refrigerators and others have declined sharply in the past few years. Meanwhile, constant upgrades are increasing the volume of discarded mobile phones, spurring the need for safe disposal of such waste.

2 Nov 2012

New Report Analyzes Threats to National Security from Climate Change

The American Security Project released a new report analyzing the threats to national security both at home and abroad from climate change. As we are seeing by the events of this week, extreme weather – exacerbated by a changing climate – poses clear threats to the United States.

2 Nov 2012

Single-Point Resource for Burn Ban Information

Starting November 1, the winter burning curtailment season begins, which can cause confusion about the restrictions that may be imposed on fireplace usage by local air districts. Residents in the Western U.S. can check www.WhenToBurn.com for a single-point resource on when they can burn and ways to reduce emissions from their fireplaces.

2 Nov 2012

Suntech Modules Demonstrate High PID Resistance in VDE Tests

Suntech Power Holdings Co., Ltd., the world's largest producer of solar panels, today announced that its Wd poly, Wd mono and Ve poly series modules are highly resistant to potential-induced degradation (PID) as confirmed in recent tests performed by the Association for Electrical, Electronic and Information Technologies (VDE), one of the world's leading testing and certification institutes.

1 Nov 2012

Researchers Urge More Sustainable Approach to Urbanization

City leaders aspiring to transform their cities into models of sustainability must look beyond city limits and include in their calculation the global flow of goods and materials into their realm, argue researchers in the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences journal Ambio.

1 Nov 2012

New Technique Quickly Converts Algae into Biocrude

It looks like Mother Nature was wasting her time with a multimillion-year process to produce crude oil. Michigan Engineering researchers can "pressure-cook" algae for as little as a minute and transform an unprecedented 65 percent of the green slime into biocrude.

1 Nov 2012

New Study Provides Insights to Improve Accuracy of Climate Models

Using dogwood trees, scientists are gaining a better understanding of the role photosynthesis and respiration play in the atmospheric carbon dioxide cycle. Their findings will aid computer modelers in improving the accuracy of climate simulations.

1 Nov 2012

Researchers Create Functional Solar Cell Made Entirely of Carbon

Stanford University scientists have built the first solar cell made entirely of carbon, a promising alternative to the expensive materials used in photovoltaic devices today.

1 Nov 2012

Study Heightens Concerns for Sustainability of Pacific Shark Populations

Research published today in the journal Conservation Biology presents the most comprehensive assessment of the status of Pacific shark populations to date.

1 Nov 2012

PACK EXPO 2012: Milliken Highlights Sustainable High-Performance Additives for Packaging Applications

Milliken & Company is highlighting the major advantages of its high-performance additives for packaging applications at PACK EXPO 2012, booth #4759, here in Chicago from Oct. 28-31. Milliken’s Millad® NX™ 8000 clarifying agents for polypropylene (PP) and Hyperform® nucleating agents for PP and polyethylene (PE) deliver notable improvements in appearance, performance, processability and sustainability.

1 Nov 2012

Grupo Bimbo Inaugurates 90 MW, 45 turbine Piedra Larga Wind Farm

Grupo Bimbo concluded today the largest and most important conversion to renewable energy sources done by a company in the food industry at a global level. Daniel Servitje, Grupo Bimbo CEO, started-up the operations of the Piedra Larga Wind Farm that will supply electric power to 45 facilities in Mexico, covering almost all of the company's operations in the country.

1 Nov 2012

New Report Analyzes the Global Clean Coal Technology Market

Countries are attempting to balance global warming with the continued use of fossil fuels, by developing clean coal technologies, states a new report by energy experts GlobalData.

1 Nov 2012

First Wind Submits Revised 48 MW Bowers Wind Project With 40% Fewer Turbines

Champlain Wind LLC, a project company of First Wind, an independent U.S.-based wind energy company, has submitted an application to the Maine Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) for a revised 48 megawatt (MW) Bowers Wind project that has 40 percent fewer turbines than an earlier proposal.

1 Nov 2012

EControl-Glas Introduces Switchable Solar Control Glass with Improved Daylight Transmission

At glasstec 2012 in Düsseldorf, Germany, EControl-Glas (Plauen, Germany) introduced with ECONTROL 55/12 their new generation of switchable solar control glazing. The major novelty: Daylight transmission when switching the electrochromic glass to a light shade has been noticeably increased. “We keep improving our product continuously.

31 Oct 2012