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Only Five Years Left to Avoid Climate Catastrophe

The world has just five years to initiate a low carbon industrial revolution before runaway climate change becomes almost inevitable. But the good news is that it can be done and that the long term benefits will be immense

18 Oct 2009

Greenpeace Encourages EU Not To Bow to US Pressure to Weaken Climate Deal

The European Union needs to stand firm and reject US efforts to weaken a climate deal in Copenhagen, said Greenpeace, as the world’s largest emitters gather in London for the US-led Major Economies Forum (MEF) beginning Sunday

18 Oct 2009

SINTEF Gets Award for Carbon Capture and Storage

SINTEF’s DYNAMIS project received the "CSLF Recognition Award" in London in October for its contribution to CO2 capture and storage

18 Oct 2009

Butler University Going Environmentally Friendly

Everywhere you look on the Butler University campus in Indianapolis, there’s something “green” going on. A new classroom and lab addition to the College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences building was built following national Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) criteria. Ditto for renovations that brought an abandoned 80-year-old fraternity house back to life

18 Oct 2009

Solar Decathlon Winners Announced

U.S. Department of Energy Deputy Secretary Daniel Poneman today announced the winners of the 2009 Department of Energy Solar Competition

18 Oct 2009

Conservation Targets Being Set Too Low To Stop Extinction

Conservation biologists are setting their minimum population size targets too low to prevent extinction

18 Oct 2009

Biofuels Report Examines Pros and Cons of Crop Based Fuels

A far more sophisticated approach needs to be taken when developing biofuels as an environmentally-friendly energy option a new report concludes

18 Oct 2009

Innovative New Wind Turbine to get Power Conversion System From Parker Hannifin

Parker Hannifin, the global leader in motion and control technologies, is providing power conversion systems and generators for a new innovation in wind turbine design from Green Energy Technologies

18 Oct 2009

Cybercom Selected to Provide Electronics for Low Emissions, High Fuel Efficiency Truck Project

A world-leading truck manufacturer chose Cybercom (STO:CYBE) to supply the control electronics for trucks that will be test driven in a unique environmental project during 2010-2012

15 Oct 2009

Corn Oil Extraction Patent Awarded to GreenShift

GreenShift Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: GERS) announced today that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued U.S. Patent No. 7,601,858, titled "Method of Processing Ethanol Byproducts and Related Subsystems” (the ’858 Patent) for the extraction of corn oil to GS CleanTech Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of GreenShift

15 Oct 2009

Merck and Dyesol Join Forces On Dye Solar Cells

Merck KGaA and Dyesol Limited have signed an agreement to collaborate in the development of electrolytes for use in Dye Solar Cells (DSC)

15 Oct 2009

NextGen Research Invesitgates Hybrid and Electric Vehicles

A new market study “Electric and Hybrid-Electric Vehicle Components: The Global Market for Batteries, Ultracapacitors, Electric Motors, and the Electronics that Improve Vehicle Efficiency”, builds on NextGen Research’s recent research on electric vehicles and both consumer and commercial hybrids, and presents the overall vehicle sales forecast data segmented by hybrid, electric, and hydraulic architecture from 2008 through 2014

15 Oct 2009