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Landscape Rating System to Transform Sustainable Building Industry

A partnership of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA), the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center at The University of Texas at Austin and the U.S. Botanic Garden today released the nation’s first rating system for the design, construction and maintenance of sustainable landscapes, with or without buildings

9 Nov 2009

Technological Developments Moving Us Towards Personalised Solar Energy

New scientific discoveries are moving society toward the era of “personalized solar energy,” in which the focus of electricity production shifts from huge central generating stations to individuals in their own homes and communities

9 Nov 2009

Solar Power Pioneer Moves On To Next Generation Solar Cells

A pioneer in solar power in the 1990s before it became "sexy," University of Houston Professor Alex Freundlich recently entered into a collaborative research agreement with U.K.-based start-up QuantaSol for the development of the next generation of super efficient solar cells

9 Nov 2009

G20 Finance Ministers Fail to Make Agreement on Climate Change

Finance ministers of the world’s dominant economies failed to reach agreement on the financing required for a global agreement to stave off catastrophic climate change

9 Nov 2009

Laws Need Strengthening to Protect the Environment During Wars

Strengthening, enforcing and clarifying existing laws protecting environment in times of conflict could go a long way towards protecting a country's natural assets during wars, says a new report by legal experts released today by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP)

9 Nov 2009

Truck Fuel Consumption Reduced by 7.5 Percent By Using a 'Boat Tail'

A boat tail, a tapering protrusion mounted on the rear of a truck, leads to fuel savings of 7.5 percent. This is due to dramatically-improved aerodynamics, as shown by road tests conducted by the PART (Platform for Aerodynamic Road Transport) public-private partnership platform

9 Nov 2009

Chinese Experts Helping English Buses Go Green

Experts from China are helping prepare the North East for a low-carbon future with the creation of the region’s first petrol-free passenger bus

9 Nov 2009

How Paint, Glass and Coatings Can Help Make a Building 'Green'

PPG Industries has published a white paper detailing how PPG paint, glass and coatings can help building projects earn "green" certification

8 Nov 2009

Gurit Gets Patent for Wind Turbine Blade Materials

Gurit's European patent EP 1 128 958, which covers its SPRINT product used mainly in the manufacture of wind turbine blades but also many other Gurit target market applications

8 Nov 2009

French Solar Power Plant Gets Working

Neoen and Arkema announce the start-up of a photovoltaic power plant on Arkema’s Serquigny industrial site in Haute-Normandie, France

8 Nov 2009

The Renault-Nissan Alliance To Make Batteries for Electric Vehicles in France

A letter of intent was signed today in Flins between the Renault-Nissan Alliance, the French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) and the French Strategic Investment Fund (FSI) to set-up a joint venture company that would develop and manufacture batteries for electric vehicles

5 Nov 2009

Catalysts Hold the Key to Increasing Energy Production and Reducing Climate Change Emissions

University of Utah chemists demonstrated the first conclusive link between the size of catalyst particles on a solid surface, their electronic properties and their ability to speed chemical reactions

5 Nov 2009

EnerDel to Develop Battery System For US Army Hybrid Humvee

Automotive lithium-ion battery maker EnerDel, Inc. announced today that it will be working with the United States Army to develop a next-generation battery system for the hybrid version of the iconic High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV or Humvee), known as the XM1124 Humvee

5 Nov 2009

BASF Reshuffles Business to Focus on Fuel Cells

BASF is realigning its business for the fuel cell market. In the future, competencies for the production of high-temperature membrane electrode assemblies (MEAs) will be concentrated in Somerset, New Jersey

5 Nov 2009

Artificial Leaf Turns Sunlight into Liquid Fuel For Vehicles

Scientists are making progress toward development of an "artificial leaf" that mimics a real leaf's chemical magic with photosynthesis - but instead converts sunlight and water into a liquid fuel such as methanol for cars and trucks

5 Nov 2009