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Green Building Components Promote Sustainable Design and Architecture

The University of Houston Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture is primed to sharpen and green the cutting edge of design and architecture with the new UH Green Building Components

22 Feb 2009

Expert Advises Congress to Jump Start Economy By Building a Better Battery

"Lighter, more efficient batteries could hold the key to a more economically and environmentally sound future," says William Robinson, Chairman and CEO of Bellingham-based Integral Technologies, Inc., a development-stage company that may have created a new building block for a better Detroit

22 Feb 2009

Archbishop Desmond Tutu Lends His Support to Earth Hour

Archbishop Desmond Tutu has lent his voice to Earth Hour's global call for action on climate change

22 Feb 2009

Glaciers Declining in Tibet and China

Glaciers that serve as water sources to one of the most ecologically diverse alpine communities on earth are melting at an alarming rate, according to a recent report

22 Feb 2009

The Solution to the United States Ageing Nuclear Arsenal

In the March 2009 issue of IEEE Spectrum, Francis Slakey and Benn Tannenbaum argue that the current program of "stockpile stewardship," with some modifications, will be sufficient to preserve the U.S. arsenal for the foreseeable future

22 Feb 2009

Norway Commits 35 Million Euros to Green Buildings

Earlier this month, the Norwegian government asked the Norwegian University of Science and Technology to host one out of eight new national Centers for Environment-friendly Energy Research. Over the next 8 years, The Research Centre on Zero Emission Buildings (ZEB) are granted an annual budget of 4,5 million euros

22 Feb 2009

Dow Corning to Sponsor Award for Sustainable Cosmetics

Dow Corning Corporation is to sponsor the first Dow Corning Sustainable Innovation with Silicones Award honoring the contributions of the cosmetic technical community in using silicones for a sustainable future

22 Feb 2009

Carbon Dioxide Capture Plant For Coal Fired Power Stations to be Built By Siemens and E.ON Kraftwerke

Siemens and E.ON Kraftwerke are to build a pilot CO2 capture plant at the E.ON power plant Staudinger in Grosskrotzenburg near Hanau

22 Feb 2009

Recycling Rate Up For PET Bottles

The national recycling rate for PET plastic bottled water containers has improved by 16.42 percent, according to new data from two new studies

22 Feb 2009

Environmentally Friendly Flame Retanrdant Acoustic Insulation Added to Beijing Aquatics Center

BASF's specialty foam Basotect is being used in the Beijing swimming stadium in order to clad the interior of the building with flame-retardant and environmentally friendly acoustic insulation

22 Feb 2009

Hydrogen Safety Sensor Launched by NexTech Materials

NexTech Materials is pleased to announce the launch of its new hydrogen sensor. Designed for hydrogen safety monitoring, this ceramic sensor exhibits a highly sensitive, selective, and rapid response to the presence of hydrogen in ambient air

22 Feb 2009

Using Nanotechnology to Make Hydrogen Peroxide More Easily Obtained and Used as a Disinfectant

Nanotechnology breakthrough promises to enable the on-site production of hydrogen peroxide in smaller quantities and more desirable concentrations

20 Feb 2009

Mac 1 Seeks to Replace All Incandescent Lights in America With Energy Efficient LED Bulbs

MAC 1 Industries is forging ahead with its green initiative to change all incandescent lights throughout America, one light bulb at a time

19 Feb 2009

Installed Costs of Solar Electricity Falling

A new study on the installed costs of solar photovoltaic (PV) power systems in the U.S. shows that the average cost of these systems declined significantly from 1998 to 2007, but remained relatively flat during the last two years of this period

19 Feb 2009

Sears Set to Introduce Suits Made from Recycled Plastic Bottles

Sears is set to introduce fashionable suits that appeal to the eco-conscious customer under the EcoGIR name. The suits will be made fro fabric that was once plastic bottles. The collection is only available at Sears under the "Covington Perfect Wardrobe" label beginning in the spring of 2009

19 Feb 2009