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Pakistan Sets World Record For Tree Planting

Pakistan set the Guinness World Record for tree planting, beating India in a healthy and productive international competition contributing to preserving fragile and endangered forests

17 Jul 2009

MIT Researchers Tracking Trash

What if we knew exactly where our trash was going and how much energy it took to make it disappear? Would it make us think twice about buying bottled water or "disposable" razors? A team of MIT researchers today announced a major project called Trash Track, which aims to get people thinking about what they throw away

17 Jul 2009

Germany Leading the Way on Solar Photovoltaic Power

Germany has been leading the way towards a healthy solar energy market for some years now. Despite the global economic crisis, and a decreasing feed-in tariff, the German market has been reporting growth figures of around 20-30 percent per year, and solar energy companies in Germany are reasonably optimistic about the near future

16 Jul 2009

New Material From SABIC Innovative Plastics Increases Colour Durability of Carpet Made With Recycled Plastics

Working closely with carpet maker Interface Americas and its converter, Universal Fibers, Inc., a leading supplier of high-end solution-dyed (melt pigmented) fibers, SABIC Innovative Plastics developed Valox iQ* 2205HV resin for carpet made from recylced plastics. The environmentally progressive, high-performance resin is used as a critical additive to provide permanent stain resistance and strong, consistent color, and to maximize PCR content

16 Jul 2009

Are Houses of Straw Going to be The Environmentally Friendly Buildings of the Future

Could straw houses be the buildings of the future? That's what researchers at the University of Bath will be testing this summer by constructing a "BaleHaus" made of prefabricated straw bale and hemp cladding panels on campus. And people around the world will be able to watch its progress online via "Strawcam"

16 Jul 2009

Fuel Cells Now Able to Compete With Any Form of Battery or Power Delivery For Vehicles and Other Applications

Fuel cells can compete with batteries, the internal combustion engine and the power grid. Hydrogen can compete with any fuel now produced and cause no pollution but its price is higher than gasoline or natural gas because it is difficult to transport and store

15 Jul 2009

Veeco Moves Into CIGS Solar Market

Veeco Instruments announced today that it has completed a transaction to purchase certain assets of DayStar Technologies, in order to accelerate its penetration of the rapidly growing copper, indium, gallium, selenium (CIGS) solar market

15 Jul 2009

Coal Industry Turns to Chemistry to Make Coal Power Cleaner and Greener

In an effort to make coal a cleaner energy source, an increasing number of companies are engaged in multimillion dollar efforts to develop and test technologies to capture and store carbon dioxide, a source of global warming

15 Jul 2009

Capturing Carbon Dioxide in a Molecular Bowl

The accidental discovery of a bowl-shaped molecule that pulls carbon dioxide out of the air suggests exciting new possibilities for dealing with global warming, including genetically engineering microbes to manufacture those CO2 catchers

15 Jul 2009

OLED Market To Continue Growth Boom

In its latest Quarterly OLED Shipment and Forecast Report, DisplaySearch forecasts the total OLED display market will grow to $7.1 billion by 2016, from $0.6 billion in 2008

15 Jul 2009

Scientists Work Out How To Use Plants to Make Fuel, Polyester and Other Chemicals

Scientists took a giant step closer to the biorefinery today, reporting in the journal Science that they have directly converted sugars ubiquitous in nature to an alternative source for those products that make oil so valuable, with very little of the residual impurities that have made the quest so daunting

15 Jul 2009

Boost for Sustainable Palm Oil in China

Major China-based producers and users of palm oil have announced they intend to provide more support for sustainable palm oil, an important boost for efforts to halt tropical deforestation

15 Jul 2009

Big Bankers Back Environmentally Friendly Green Investments

A powerful group of asset managers, representing around USD 2 trillion in assets under management, are arguing that integrating environmental, social and governance (ESG) considerations into investment decisions is no longer just a luxury, but a legal responsibility

15 Jul 2009

Japanese Pro Baseball's 2009 All-Star Games to get Green Electricity from Mazda

Mazda Motor Corporation will provide electricity generated from renewable sources, such as wind power, solar power, and biomass, for two all-star games organized by the Nippon Professional Baseball Association (NPB) in Japan

15 Jul 2009

Report Released on Tin and the Photovoltaics Market

NanoMarkets, has announced the release of its newest report, "Tin Markets for Photovoltaics," the latest from the firm's "Metals in PV" series examining opportunities for various metals in the photovoltaics industry

15 Jul 2009