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Prairie Lakes Found to Have High Levels of Mercury After Rains

Prairie lakes are more likely to carry elevated mercury levels during wet cycles that can affect fish caught in them and subsequently consumed by people

6 Jul 2009

First Colorado City to Have All LED Street Lights is Ouray

Through joint efforts between San Miguel Power Association, Inc. (SMPA), The City of Ouray, Tri-State Generation & Transmission, the Governor’s Energy Office, and Beta LED, Ouray, CO will officially become the first city in the state of Colorado to have 100% LED street lighting

6 Jul 2009

High Profile Companies Call On Governments to Set Ambitious Climate Change Targets and Get The Green Economy Rolling

Some of the world’s highest-profile companies like Johnson & Johnson, Nike, Lafarge, Tetra Pak, Nokia, Sony and HP today called on G8 leaders meeting in Italy to agree on a global climate deal by the end of 2009 and to set ambitious targets to cut carbon emissions. The campaign encourages governments and policy-makers to “Let The Clean Economy Begin”

6 Jul 2009

Electronic Waste Recycling Through the EasyPak Sustainable Recycling Program, Boosted By Upgrade

Air Cycle Corporation is pleased to announce the upgrade of LampRecycling.com, an online resource for facilities that need a simple and cost-effective way to recycle their fluorescent bulbs, CFLs, batteries, ballasts, and electronic waste

6 Jul 2009

Burger King Drive Through to Generate Electricity From Moving Cars

New Energy Technologies, today announced that engineers have completed development of the Company’s newest MotionPower prototype for generating electricity from the movement of cars and light trucks, and will now undertake active field tests of the device at a drive-thru located at a prominent Burger King® franchise in the New York metropolitan area

6 Jul 2009

Answers Demanded by Chinese Drywall Complaint Center About Toxic Chinese Drywall and Who Knew What, When

Chinese Drywall Complaint Center is sure air conditioning companies knew about the Chinese drywall issues as far back as 2005, and failed to inform the consumers, out of fear of annoying their biggest clients, US homebuilders

6 Jul 2009

Insulated Concrete Wall Manufacturer, Greenblock, Expands Operations With New Manufacturing Facility

Greenblock Worldwide Corp. announced today that they have begun production of their Insulated Concrete Form wall systems at Diversifoam Products in Rockford, MN. This facility brings Greenblock's total manufacturing locations to eight

6 Jul 2009

What's The Difference Between Different Types of Hybrid Vehicle?

Not all hybrid vehicles are created equal. The basic concept of a hybrid vehicle is constant – a combination of two technologies, in this case a gasoline engine and electric motor—that work in tandem to power the vehicle. However, that’s about where the similarities end

6 Jul 2009

Cresco Concrete Products Introduces Innovative Green Building Product Line

Cresco Concrete Products now offers a complete line of precast fence systems featuring lightweight panels and rails. The company also manufactures Liteblok™, a lightweight, interlocking, dry stacked green building block

6 Jul 2009

New Way of Storing Hydrogen for Fuel Cell Vehicles

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Savannah River National Laboratory have created a reversible route to generate aluminum hydride, a high capacity hydrogen storage material

6 Jul 2009

Californian Curved Roof Gets Sole Power Tile System from SRS Energy

SRS Energy, a leading developer of sustainable solar roofing products, has completed one of the first residential installations of the Sole Power Tile system at a residence in Bermuda Dunes, CA. The Sole Power Tile is the first building-integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) roofing product designed for curved roofing systems

6 Jul 2009

Construction Begins on World's First Floating Nuclear Power Plant

Russia is the first country to build a floating nuclear power plant. Similar projects have existed in other countries, but their realization was never adopted

6 Jul 2009

Anti-Reflective Coating Under Development For More Efficient Solar Panels

XeroCoat Inc. has announced that the United States Department of Energy (US DOE) has awarded the company a grant for a $2.96 million project to develop a method for applying its patented anti-reflective (AR) coating technology directly onto assembled photovoltaic (PV) solar modules

6 Jul 2009

McDonald's to Install Electric Vehicle Charging Stations from NovaCharge

McDonald’s and NovaCharge have announced the deployment of electric vehicle charging stations. McDonald's will open the first "green" restaurant, built with eco-friendly materials and technologies, including ChargePoint™ Networked Charging Stations for electric vehicles from Coulomb Technologies, making it the first of its kind in the United States

6 Jul 2009

Toxic Chinese Drywall Contamination Removal System Prototyped

SabCo, has developed a specifically unique process, referred to as the RISS System. The RISS System(TM) is effective in removing sulfur based contaminants at or below the analytical instrument detection limits (ppb to ppt), and in many cases below the odor threshold

6 Jul 2009