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SolarBotanic Signs Deal On Energy Harvesting Artificial Trees

SolarBotanic has signed a a major joint-venture deal with the renewable energy company GREENgENERGY, Inc. to fund the R + D phase for the company's patented energy harvesting artificial trees. The potential market for SolarBotanic's trees is virtually unlimited and it involves integrating a vast array of brilliant and cutting-edge technologies

9 Jun 2009

National Building Museum Honors the Energy Efficient Products and Commitment to Environmental Improvements by UTC

United Technologies Corp received a 2009 National Building Museum Honor Award for the company's energy efficient building products and for creating sweeping energy and environmental improvements in its manufacturing operations

9 Jun 2009

Ice Energy and Data Aire Team Up to Provide Smart Grid-Ready Energy Storage Solution for Greening Data Centers

Ice Energy, the leading provider of distributed energy storage and smart grid solutions for optimizing energy system efficiency, has teamed with Data Aire, a leading provider of computer room air conditioning systems, to offer the industry's first cost-effective energy storage solution specifically developed to address peak cooling loads in data and telecom centers

9 Jun 2009

Increasing Crop Yields Needs Worldwide Co-operation

Speaking today at the World Grain Forum 2009 in St. Petersburg, John Atkin, Syngenta Chief Operating Officer Crop Protection, emphasized the essential role of technology in meeting the global food production challenges of the 21st Century

9 Jun 2009

Analysis Report Says a Combination of Energy Efficiency, Renewable Energy and New Clean Coal Plant is Needed for Future Power

A Consumers Energy analysis of electric generation needs and alternatives concludes that a balanced portfolio of diverse energy resources will be needed to meet the future power demands of the utility's 1.8 million electric customers

9 Jun 2009

Green Energy and the Future of Space Propulsion To Be Examined at Conference

Alternative fuels, electric propulsion systems, fuel cells, and futuristic aerospace propulsion systems will take center stage at the 7th International Energy Conversion and Engineering Conference

9 Jun 2009

True Full Lifecycle Environmental Costs of Transport Examined in New Research

Trains, planes, buses and automobiles do not only effect the environment via their exhaust pipes. There is a full life-cycle of processes associated with getting from a to b that we rarely acknowledge

9 Jun 2009

Alcan Packaging Launches it's Global Sustainability Moments Campaign for World Environment Day

Alcan Packaging, a business unit of Rio Tinto Alcan, is launching its global Sustainability Moments(SM) campaign to coincide with World Environment Day celebrations

9 Jun 2009

Plug In Hybrid Electric Vehicle Tests Completed

Green Star Products announced that it has successfully completed its full series of Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle (PHEV) testing protocols

9 Jun 2009

Motion Power Devices Capture Energy From Movign Trucks and Buses to Generate Clean Energy

New Energy Technologies, a next-generation alternative and renewable energy developer, today announced that the Company is immediately expanding its product range of MotionPower technologies for harvesting the kinetic energy of moving vehicles to generate clean electricity

9 Jun 2009

Fremont Union High School District to Install $30million Solar Power Program

Real Goods Solar announced today it has signed a contract to design and install solar electric systems totaling 3.65 megawatts for the Fremont Union High School District in California. The new solar systems will be constructed as carports at all five high schools in the District

9 Jun 2009

Brazillian Food Company Wins Award For Using Bio-Plastic Based Packaging

Cereplast, a leading developer of proprietary bio-based sustainable plastics, today announced that Bunge Alimentos, the largest agribusiness and food company in Brazil, has received the prestigious 2009 Embanews Award for Best Renewable and Biodegradable Packaging

8 Jun 2009