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Toxic Chinese Drywall Investigation Expanded by Chinese Drywall Complaint Center

The Chinese Drywall Complaint Center is dramatically expanding their investigation of toxic Chinese drywall in Texas

8 Jun 2009

Green Building Now on the Curriculum at Colleges Throughout United States

Green Builder® Media announced that it has expanded the reach of its online educational platform, Green Builder® College, through a partnership with ProTrain LLC. Green Builder College’s online courses will be included in the curriculum of 135 colleges across the country

4 Jun 2009

Kodak Reveals New Sustainability Goals

Eastman Kodak Company announced today a new set of three-year Sustainability Goals. This comes on the heels of a prior program that reduced carbon emissions in an amount equal to taking 190,000 cars off the road

4 Jun 2009

Heavy Metal Pollution Can Be Cleaned Up By Deep Sea Bacteria

A species of bacteria, isolated from sediments deep under the Pacific Ocean, could provide a powerful clean-up tool for heavy metal pollution

4 Jun 2009

Tesla Delivers 500th Electric Car, Will Celebrate With

Tesla Motors will host a road rally Saturday to commemorate the electric vehicle manufacturer’s 500th Roadster delivery and the one-year anniversary of its first retail store

4 Jun 2009

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