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Greenhouse Gas Emissions Could Be Cut By Boosting Efforts to Conserve Forests and Other Ecosystems

Boosting investments in the conservation, rehabilitation and management of the Earth's forests, peatlands, soils and other key ecosystems could deliver significant cuts in greenhouse gas emissions and avoid even more being released to the atmosphere, a new report by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) says

4 Jun 2009

Climate Heroes Program to be Launched By United Nations

Born out of the UN-wide call for the world to Unite to Combat Climate Change in the lead up to the critical negotiations this December in Copenhagen, one component of this year's World Environment Day will be the launch of the Climate Heroes

4 Jun 2009

How Will Climate Change Effect Rotterdam, Jakarta, and New York

Policy makers and environmental, planning, and engineering experts from around the world convene to compare and assess the mitigation and adaptation policies of three major world coastal cities, each with a Dutch heritage: Rotterdam, Jakarta, and New York City

4 Jun 2009

Blach Solar Photovoltaic Project to be Built in San Jose

Blach Construction was recently selected by the Orchard School District to provide program management and preconstruction services for the installation of campus-wide energy management and efficiency upgrades

4 Jun 2009

More Than One Million Carbon Offset Credits Issued by Climate Action Reserve

The Climate Action Reserve, the premier offset registry for the North American carbon market, announced it has issued over one million carbon offset credits, known as Climate Reserve Tonnes

4 Jun 2009

Verisae Earns Greenhouse Gas Emissions Tracking Patent

Verisae, a supplier of Sustainability On-Demand software solutions, publicly announced issuance of U.S. patent number 7440871 for their invention, technical methods of implementation, and delivery of a web-based system for tracking and reporting Greenhouse Gas emissions

4 Jun 2009

Renewable Energy Power Plant For Paper Mill Starts Up Ahead of Schedule

The new renewable energy power plant at UPM’s Caledonian paper mill in Scotland has started-up successfully one month ahead of schedule

4 Jun 2009

Solterra Renewable Technologies to Fulfill U.S. Congress 'Clean Energy' Bill Mandate

CEO Stephen Squires of Solterra Renewable Technologies, said that Solterra's proprietary process for manufacturing quantum dot semiconductors, which are used in its solar cells to create electricity, positions the company perfectly to fulfill the mandates of the H.R. 2454, "The American Clean Energy and Security Act,"

4 Jun 2009

Solar Cells Become Event More Environmentally Friendly

Delivering a major step forward in sustainable solar power, Malibu today launched the world's first thin-film solar module factory that completely eliminates the use of nitrogen trifluoride (NF3), a greenhouse gas with a significant global warming potential, from the manufacturing process

4 Jun 2009

Sustainable Buildings Boosted by Lexan Polycarbonate Sheeting

SABIC Innovative Plastics’ growing portfolio of Lexan polycarbonate (PC) multiwall sheet products are contributing to the green building movement and are strengthening sustainable building designs by increasing energy conservation, improving working/living environments and promoting recycling

4 Jun 2009

Courses in Sustainable Design for Buildings Introduced by PPG

PPG Industries introduced three new American Institute of Architects’ Continuing Education Services (AIA/CES) courses, including two that fulfill the AIA’s new sustainable design (SD) requirement

3 Jun 2009

Cost Found Not To Be a Deterrent to Being Green and Environmentally Friendly

When it comes to environmental issues and corporate social responsibility, people are willing to put their money where their hearts are, even in this economic environment

3 Jun 2009

BioSolar Called a "True Green" Solar Technology

BioSolar, Inc. is touted in RECHARGE, a news source for the global renewables industry, as a company on a “mission of nothing less than developing plant-derived polymers that could replace the petroleum-based plastics used in the production of the majority of photovoltaic (PV) cells and modules.”

3 Jun 2009

Clean Diesel Funding Delivers Economic and Environmental Benefits to Ohio

This morning EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson announced the first of several clean diesel retrofit projects that are being funded from the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act. The Ohio Department of Development will receive $5 million to retrofit a variety of locomotives, construction equipment, trucks, buses and other municipal vehicles

3 Jun 2009