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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

Researchers Turn Bananas Into Plastics

Researchers at Queen's University Belfast are pioneering a new technique for the use of banana plants in the production of plastic products

29 Sep 2009

Siemens Wins Order for Operation and Maintenance of PV Systems

Siemens Industry has won an order from the Madrid-based company Eolia Renovables for the technical operation and maintenance of four photovoltaic systems with a total power output of over 45 MW. Spanning a period of more than 20 years, the service and maintenance contract has a volume of approximately EUR40 million.

27 Sep 2009

Royal DSM's KhepriCoat Achieving Highest Energy Conversion

Royal DSM N.V., the global Life Sciences and Materials Sciences company headquartered in the Netherlands, announces today that its KhepriCoat™ anti-reflective coating system has contributed to achieving the highest energy conversion ever of a full-size solar module.

27 Sep 2009

OnChip Announces Ability to Provide Submounts for HB LED

A global leader in Integrated Passive Devices (IPD), OnChip announced the ability to provide Silicon and Ceramic Carriers or Submounts for HB LED (High Brightness Light Emitting Diode) manufacturers.

27 Sep 2009

Hydro Executive Saving Tonnes of Climate Emissions with "Low-CO2 Presentation"

Hydro executive Birgitte Holter saved tonnes of climate emissions with a "low-CO2 presentation" to a sustainable building conference in Norway this week.

25 Sep 2009

Rhodia Chosen to Produce Parts for Biofuel Engines

Magneti Marelli has chosen Rhodia’s Technyl® to produce the air intake manifold (AIM) and the fuel rail of the Citroën C4 and the C5 2l biofuel engines in Brazil. This choice is extended to Peugeot 407, 307 and 308 series.

25 Sep 2009

West Sussex Retirement Homes Built With Sustainable Construction

H+H UK's Rå Build method of sustainable construction was used to speed up the construction of 16 new affordable and retirement homes in West Sussex

24 Sep 2009

Cheap, Environmentally Friendly Batteries Made From Paper

Imagine a gift wrapped in paper you really do treasure and want to carefully fold and save. That's because the wrapping paper lights up with words like "Happy Birthday" or "Happy Holidays," thanks to a built in battery - an amazing battery made out of paper

23 Sep 2009

UN Climate Neutral Network Announces Low-Carbon Future Partnerships

From cities to cooperatives and from railways to postal services, industry and civil society associations have pledged to significantly reduce their carbon footprint and promote greener living by joining the Climate Neutral Network led by the United Nations Environment Programme

23 Sep 2009

Asian Countries Look to Obama on Climate Change

People in developing Asia pin their hopes for a new global climate treaty mainly on one man: Barack Obama, according to a new poll

23 Sep 2009

Electric Car Designed and Built By First Year University Students

First-year university students have designed and built a groundbreaking electric car that recharges itself and does away with axles and gear boxes

23 Sep 2009

Siemens Introduces New Photovoltaic Inverter Family for Professional Solar Power Plants

Siemens is set to substantially extend its share in the PV (photovoltaics) inverter market. A current IMS Research study has shown that the PV plant market is expected to grow by at least 30 per cent annually until 2013, with the expectation that the
growth rate will be disproportionately high in the commercial and power plant segment

23 Sep 2009

World Record Efficiency for Amorphous Silicon Photovoltaic Solar Cells

Oerlikon Solar, the world's leading supplier of thin film silicon photovoltaic (PV) production equipment, today announced that it has achieved a new stabilized record efficiency level for amorphous silicon (a-Si) single junction PV cells

23 Sep 2009