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World at Green Economy Cross Roads

In a keynote address to Chatham House in London, UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner today said G8 leaders have a golden opportunity to focus political action towards powering forward a Green Economy future

8 Jul 2009

National Solar Thermal Test Facility Shows Off New SunCatcher Power System

Stirling Energy Systems (SES) and Tessera Solar recently unveiled four newly designed solar power collection dishes at Sandia National Laboratories’ National Solar Thermal Test Facility (NSTTF). Called SunCatchers (TM), the new dishes have a refined design that will be used in commercial-scale deployments of the units beginning in 2010

8 Jul 2009

Clean Fuels in Ships Could Reduce Polluting Emissions and Save 40000 Lives Each Year

Rising levels of smokestack emissions from oceangoing ships will cause an estimated 87,000 deaths worldwide each year by 2012. A new study says that government action to reduce sulfur emissions from shipping fuel could reduce that toll

8 Jul 2009

Weed Killers Shown To Improve Nutritional Value of Food Crops

Scientists are reporting for the first time that the use of weed killers in farmers’ fields boosts the nutritional value of an important food a crop. Application of two common herbicides to several varieties of sweet corn significantly increased the amount of key nutrients termed carotenoids in the corn kernels

8 Jul 2009

Remediation of Polluted Sites Using Nanotechnology

A new review article appearing in Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP) co-authored by Dr. Todd Kuiken, a research associate for the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies (PEN), focuses on the use of nanomaterials for environmental cleanup

8 Jul 2009

Electronics Companies Fail To Improve The Eco Friendliness of their Products

The latest edition of Greenpeace's 'Guide to Greener Electronics' ranking, released today, reveals that the world's biggest PC makers - Hewlett Packard (HP), Dell and Lenovo - have failed to improve their low scores

8 Jul 2009

Eco-Friendly Lighting Installed at Orlando International Airport

Energy Smart Industry (ESI), a company based in Florida and New York, is in talks to redesign an undisclosed portion of Orlando International Airport with an innovative energy-saving LED lighting system

8 Jul 2009

Toxic Chinese Made Drywall to be The Subject of July 28th Litigation and Insurance Seminar

Litigation and insurance coverage claims involving alleged personal injuries and property damage from drywall imported from China is the focus of a half-day seminar set for July 28, 2009 at the Mission Bay Conference Center at the University of California San Francisco. The event will also be webcast

8 Jul 2009

Security Device Destroys CD and DVD Data in an Environmentally Responsible Manner

Proton Data Security is announcing the new Proton model 1250A, a security device that ensures all information on compact disks (CD, CD-RW, CD-R, CD-ROM) and optical disks (DVD) is destroyed and rendered useless in an environmentally responsible manner

8 Jul 2009

Revealing the Genome of Sugarcane Could Bring a Revolution in Environmentally Friendly Energy

Scientists based at UQ are working towards one of sustainable energy's holy grails – harvesting the untapped potential of sugar cane

8 Jul 2009

Piaggio Releases Three Wheeled Hybrid Scooter

The Piaggio Group presents the MP3 Hybrid, the world's first hybrid scooter and a vehicle destined to revolutionise urban mobility. This is not just a "scooter with two powerplants", but a highly advanced vehicle supplements a low environmental impact conventional internal combustion engine with a zero emissions electric motor, summing the advantages of the two units

8 Jul 2009

High Demand for Environmentally Friendly Kitchen and Bathroom Fixtures and Fittings

A growing environmental conscientiousness coupled with a penchant for distinctive kitchens and bathrooms have made greener "prosumer" lines such as Grohe a must-have

7 Jul 2009

Òne Million Jobs Could Be Created In The US By Switching to Clean Energy

One million more jobs would be created in renewables in G8 countries by 2020 if the leaders of the world’s wealthiest countries agreed to switch from coal and other climate-destroying conventional energy sources to renewables in order to help slash carbon emissions and avert a climate catastrophe

7 Jul 2009

Climate Change Threatening More Polar Bear Populations

The world’s top experts have just confirmed that Arctic warming is continuing its ravages of polar bear populations. The Polar Bear Specialist Group of the International Union of the Conservation of Nature has added to its list of declining polar bear populations

7 Jul 2009

CIGS Solar Panels Cheaper and Use Less Raw Materials Than Traditional Solar Panels

Though the solar industry today predominately produces solar panels made from crystalline silicon, they remain relatively expensive to make. New players in the solar industry have instead been looking at panels that can harvest energy with CIGS (copper-indium-gallium-selenide) or CIGS-related materials

7 Jul 2009