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Nominations Open for UNEP Champions of the Earth 2010

From pioneers driving the shift to a more resource-efficient development path to visionary leaders steering global environmental policy, UNEP will celebrate its 2010 Champions of the Earth on 22 April 2010 at a spectacular ceremony in Seoul

16 Sep 2009

CSIRO Collaboration to Develop Energy Efficient Aluminium Smelting

Scientists from CSIRO and five Universities will research sustainable energy-efficient technologies for the Australasian aluminium industry through a collaboration launched today

16 Sep 2009

Greenpeace Tells Obama and Harper That Climate Leaders Aren't Interested in Tar Sands

As Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper prepares to meet US President Barack Obama in Washington, 25 Greenpeace activists from Canada, the US, and France have blocked a mining operation at the Shell Albion Sands open-pit mine in Northern Alberta, and placed a giant banner reading “Tar Sands: Climate Crime.”

16 Sep 2009

Alcoa Grows One Millionth Plant for Mine Site Rehabilitation

Alcoa’s (NYSE:AA) Australia Operations have been recognized by national and international organizations as a world leader in mine site rehabilitation for its long term management of the ecosystem. Once again, Alcoa has demonstrated its leadership after growing its one millionth plant at its state-of-the-art laboratory near Perth, Australia

16 Sep 2009

NSF Grant to Support Sustainable Living Research

A new grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) will support 30 graduate students working in the Cornell Center for Materials Research (CCMR) on the development of materials to advance sustainable living

16 Sep 2009

Prototype Biomass Electric Generator Completed by Cyclone Power Technologies

Cyclone Power Technologies announced today that is has completed development of a working prototype biomass power generator, the first system of its kind capable of allowing homes, farms and small commercial enterprises to produce electricity from vegetative waste and byproducts

16 Sep 2009

US EPA 2009 Green Power Leadership Award Given To Applied Materials for Green Energy

Applied Materials, Inc. announced today that it has received a 2009 Green Power Leadership Award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

16 Sep 2009

EcoSafe Inflator Introduced as an Environmentally Friendly Vehicle Airbag Inflator

ARC Automotive Inc., a leading producer of airbag inflator technologies, today announced a new, ‘greener’ alternative – the EcoSafe Inflator™ – to engage airbag passive safety restraint systems in passenger vehicles

15 Sep 2009

Spanish Forestry Unsustainable Due to Energy Consumption

Spain is one of the leading European countries, along with Sweden, in terms of wood production for paper paste, but this uses large amounts of energy. Spanish and Swedish scientists have compared the environmental load stemming from forestry operations, and have concluded that the Spanish sector uses more energy than the Swedish one

15 Sep 2009

Nature in the Arctic Indicates Our Climate Changed Future

In Arctic areas, climate change is progressing faster than in any other location on Earth. Researchers at the University of Helsinki have participated in two new studies indicating that the changes are astonishingly fast

15 Sep 2009

Carbon Nanotubes to be The Building Block of Super Efficient Solar Cells

Using a carbon nanotube instead of traditional silicon, Cornell researchers have created the basic elements of a solar cell that hopefully will lead to much more efficient ways of converting light to electricity than now used in calculators and on rooftops

15 Sep 2009

Big Leap Forward for Generating Hydrogen Using Sunlight

RoseStreet Labs Energy scientists announced a leap forward in generating hydrogen gas directly from sunlight by a photoelectrochemical cell

15 Sep 2009

Navy to Get Plant Based Jet Fuel

Sustainable Oils, a producer of renewable, environmentally clean, and high-value camelina-based fuels, announced it has been awarded a contract by the Defense Energy Support Center (DESC) for 40,000 gallons of camelina-based jet fuel

15 Sep 2009

Bulb Shaped LED Lights Launched by Panasonic

Panasonic Corporation, a leader in electronics technology and innovation, has unveiled bulb-shaped LED (light-emitting diode) lamps, the latest addition to its EVERLEDS LED lighting products

15 Sep 2009

EcoFriendly Carpet Cleans Up In Rhino Challenge

The grudge match is over and the winner has been crowned in the battle between Mohawk SmartStrand carpet made with DuPont Sorona renewably sourced polymer, and Ricko The Rhino. The beige carpet emerged victorious in the SmartStrand Rhino Challenge… after two weeks of exposure to Ricko

15 Sep 2009