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First Solar Hits Gigawatt Milestone

First Solar, Inc announced that it has produced 1 gigawatt (GW) of its advanced solar modules since beginning commercial production in early 2002

23 Mar 2009

Heat Loss From Wooden Buildings Solved With New Insulation Product From Bayer

The detached wooden houses so typical of Scandinavian countries are an attractive complement to their surroundings and - what’s more - are also made using a natural product - wood. However, in the depths of winter, a lack of heat insulation can make getting close to nature a lot less enjoyable and send heating costs soaring

23 Mar 2009

Turkey Needs to Turn to Modern Irrigation Techniques Before Water Runs Out

With less than one tenth of Turkey's irrigable land under modern irrigation techniques vast potentials for water saving exist in agriculture, user of nearly three quarters of the nation's increasingly scarce water

22 Mar 2009

Alternate Thinking the Only Way For New Orleans to Make a Sustainable Recovery from Hurricane Katrina and Withstand Future Storms

Calling New Orleans "the canary in the global warming coal mine," two Tulane professors say the Crescent City must embrace unconventional thinking in order to recover in a sustainable way from Hurricane Katrina while withstanding a continual threat from rising sea levels, diminishing wetlands and future storms

22 Mar 2009

Researcher Works to Bring Greener Gardens, Cleaner Waterways and Even Healthier Astroturf

Dan Brabander wants to put the green in – and take the lead out of – urban gardens. His focus is on environmental geochemistry and public health, has received funding from the U.S. EPA and has formed a partnership with Boston's Food Project, a nonprofit organization that helps foster organic urban gardens

22 Mar 2009

Nanotechnology Researchers Increase Efficiency of Equipment That Uses the Power of the Sun to Produce Hydrogen Fuel

Researchers find great promise in a process that could use solar energy to use hydrogen, the third most abundant element on earth's surface, as the ultimate alternative to fossil fuels. This process increase dramatically the efficiency of titania photoanodes used to convert solar energy into hydrogen in fuel cells

22 Mar 2009

Loading the Seas With Carbon Dioxide Set to Create Ocean Based Ecological Disaster

The loading of carbon dioxide into oceans is a consequence of fossil fuel use that has only begun to be widely recognized as problematic in the past decade. Its subsequent effects on seawater chemistry have the potential to spread ecological disaster to a variety of industries dependent on the seas

22 Mar 2009

Air Pollution Monitoring Near Highways To Reveal Secrets of Indoor Air Quality

Intensive monitoring of air quality near a major highway intersection could reveal a lot about how the air outside affects the air in our indoor environment

22 Mar 2009

Neglected Water Treaty Revitalised

Delegates of 14 countries attending the World Water Forum tonight signed pledges of support to a growing call to bring into force a global water treaty that has languished in limbo for more than a decade as anxiety grows about the increased potential for conflict in a world increasingly short of water

22 Mar 2009

Acropolis Becomes World's Oldest Landmark to Join Earth Hour

The Acropolis, a symbol of western civilization, will be the world’s oldest landmark to turn off the lights for Earth Hour and join the global movement against climate change

22 Mar 2009

Model to Protect Water Resources From Unwanted Medicines

As part of Stony Brook University's ongoing campaign to promote environmental education and advocacy, the University, Stony Brook University Medical Center, and the surrounding community are sponsoring a special pharmaceutical recycling event where residents can safely dispose of unwanted or expired medicines

22 Mar 2009

Environment Forcing Radical Rethinking on Cars and Vehicles

This year's list of the technologically most interesting new cars suggests that a radical rethinking of personal transportation is in the air

22 Mar 2009

AZoCleanTech Adds Earth Hour to Their Environmentally Friendly Activities

The team behind clean technology information source, AZoCleantech.com, has announced in addition to their day to day environmental and sustainable activities, they are throwing their weight behind the Earth Hour initiative

22 Mar 2009

EPA Over $200 Million of Funding For the Reduction of Diesel Emissions, Spur Redevelopment and Create Jobs

State and local governments, nonprofit organizations and tribal agencies can now apply for up to an estimated $211 million in funding that will help create jobs for redevelopment nationwide and protect communities and the environment from diesel emissions

22 Mar 2009

Styrofoam Insulation from Dow Is Going Environmentally Friendly

The Dow Chemical Company announced today that it has succeeded in converting its first facility that manufactures STYROFOAM Brand Insulation to its new zero ozone-depleting, no-VOC (volatile organic compound) foaming agent technology

22 Mar 2009