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French Get Nude For Climate Change

700 volunteers posed nude in a French vineyard to send a message about climate change. This human art installation in the South of Burgundy was created by artist Spencer Tunick - to warn about the dangers of global warming.

6 Oct 2009

H+H Given Very Good Rating For Responsible Sourcing of Construction Products

H+H is the first company to achieve “very good” in the BES 6001:2008 Standard for the Responsible Sourcing of Construction Products. This means that all of its products from all manufacturing sites have gone through the exacting processes required to obtain this prestigious certification

6 Oct 2009

Alcoa to Discuss Sustainable Building Using Aluminum

Alcoa
(NYSE:AA) announced today that Eddie Bugg, Director, Sustainable Solutions
for Kawneer and Alcoa Building and Construction Systems, will discuss aluminum’s
role in sustainable building design at METALCON International 2009 next week
in Tampa, Florida. Bugg’s presentation, “Aluminum and Sustainable
Building Design”, will be held on Monday, October 5, 2009, from 1:00 –
2:30 p.m

5 Oct 2009

Joint French Research Team Developed for Thin Film Solar Power

Total and Laboratoire de Physique des Interfaces et des Couches Minces (LPICM), a joint R&D research team between the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and France’s Ecole Polytechnique engineering school, today announce the creation of a joint research team focusing on thin film technologies for photovoltaic solar applications

1 Oct 2009

Energy Efficient LED Lighting Developed for Airport Taxiways

Lighting manufacturer OSRAM and Safegate, specialist for docking guidance and lighting systems at airports, have now developed resistant and energy-efficient LEDs for taxiways

1 Oct 2009

Airbus Welcomes Biofuel Jetfuel

Airbus welcomes the latest steps towards the approval by ASTM International, one of the largest voluntary standards developing organizations in the world, for the use of a 50 per cent synthetic jet fuel in commercial aviation

1 Oct 2009

From Printed Flexible Solar Cells to Biomedical Products, CSIRO Celebrates Breakthrough Technology

Flexible plastic solar cells that can be printed like money, carbon fibres so thin they can be spun into yarns and a raft of new biomedical products to combating illness and injury are just some of the research breakthroughs being developed by the new CSIRO National Research Flagship for Future Manufacturing launched today

1 Oct 2009

Chemical Management Reform Discussed by US EPA Administrator

In a speech today at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, U.S. EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson announced core principles that outline the Obama Administration's goals for legislative reform of this country's chemical management law

1 Oct 2009

Air Products Signs Supply Contract for Thin Film Photovoltaics Plant

Air Products today announced it has signed, through its subsidiary Air Products San Fu Co. Ltd. in Taiwan, a long-term contract to provide nitrogen to NexPower Technology Corporation (NexPower), at its new thin-film photovoltaic (PV) facility in the Central Taiwan Science Park (CTSP) in Houli, Taichung, Taiwan

1 Oct 2009

Applied Materials Comments on The Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act

Applied Materials, the world's largest supplier of equipment to the solar industry, released the following statement in support of the "The Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act" a bill introduced today by Senator John Kerry and Senator Barbara Boxer

1 Oct 2009

US EPA Launches Strategy Into Understanding Possible Environmental Harm Caused by Nanomaterials

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today outlined a new research strategy to better understand how manufactured nanomaterials may harm human health and the environment

30 Sep 2009

Flu Drug, Tamiflu, Found Polluting River Water and Sewer Discharge of Japan

In a study published September 24th ahead of print in the peer-reviewed journal Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP), researchers measured oseltamivir carboxylate (OC), the active metabolite of the popular anti-influenza drug Tamiflu (oseltamivir phosphate), in samples of sewage discharge and river water collected near Kyoto City

29 Sep 2009

Environmentally Friendly But Powerful 'SKY-G' and 'SKY-D' Engines to be Showcased by Mazda at Tokyo Motor Show

Mazda Motor Corporation will showcase the world premiere of its next-generation engine lineup and automatic transmissions at the 41st Tokyo Motor Show

29 Sep 2009

Traditional Materials May Be The Environmentally Friendly Materials of the Future

Plaster made from lime is environment-friendly, repairable and sustainable. Despite this, lime plaster on historic buildings has been replaced in modern times by plaster containing Portland cement – which has caused severe damage to historic buildings

29 Sep 2009