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President of Ireland to Speak at Environmentally Friendly Mount Holyoke College Commencement

It will be an "all-green" event when Mount Holyoke College celebrates its 172nd commencement and confers 600 degrees on Sunday, May 24 -- beginning with the president of the Emerald Isle as commencement speaker

19 May 2009

Obama and Schwarzenegger To Announce Rigorous Greenhouse Gas Emission Standards For Passenger Cars and Truck

President Barack Obama and California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger will announce an historic blueprint to carry out rigorous greenhouse gas emission standards for passenger cars and trucks while giving the nation's automakers the certainty of cohesive regulatory standards

19 May 2009

Ford Starts Production Of Their EcoBoost Advanced Fuel Efficient Engines

Ford Motor Company today marked the start of production of its advanced fuel-efficient EcoBoost engines at Cleveland Engine Plant No. 1 - a key step in Ford's plan to deliver leading fuel economy across millions of vehicles

19 May 2009

Limbach Energy Solutions Expands Into New Markets and Embraces Energy Efficiency

A long-time player in the U.S. building industry is shaking up the energy services market. Limbach Facility Services, one of the United States leading specialty contractors, announced today that it is expanding its en...

19 May 2009

Honeywell Now Helping Organizations Down The Road to Sustainability

Honeywell has introduced a Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Inventory service that measures and provides a comprehensive snapshot of an organization's verifiable GHG emissions

19 May 2009

World's Highest Output Lithium Ion Battery Developed

Hitachi, Ltd. and Hitachi Vehicle Energy, Ltd. which develops and manufactures lithium-ion batteries for automotive applications, such as hybrid electric vehicles, have developed a lithium-ion battery having the world's highest power density

19 May 2009

Acceleration of Smart Grid Standards Called for By GE Energy

GE announced today that Bob Gilligan, vice president of transmission and distribution for GE Energy, will be one of the select few industry executives participating in the Smart Grid Leadership Meeting in Washington, D.C

19 May 2009

Global Consumption of Ethanol Being Led By USA

Global demand for ethanol is predicted to increase annually by 9.3% over next 5 years. The United States is the largest consumer using 50% of the world’s supply, largely due to mandated production levels specified by legislation

19 May 2009

CEMEX Teams Up With World Business Council for Sustainable Development on Energy Efficiency in Buildings

CEMEX in collaboration with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and a group of leading companies in the building, equipment, and energy industries- announced the release of "Transforming the Market: Energy Efficiency in Buildings”, a new research report of the Energy Efficiency in Buildings (EEB) project

19 May 2009

Conservatory Building in UK to be Government Regulated In Effort to Meet Carbon Targets

Although the Government has suffered defeat once in 2002 with the same proposed legislation managing directory of Conservatory Quote Online.com - Stephen Giles said: "We expect the Government to be successful in 2010 as it only has 10 years to achieve the carbon emissions target and part L of the Building Regulations is the only tool they have to use."

19 May 2009

Plant Researchers Use Ultraviolet LEDs To Grow Healthier Lettuce

Salad dressing aside, a pile of spinach has more nutritional value than a wedge of iceberg lettuce. That's because darker colors in leafy vegetables are often signs of antioxidants that are thought to have a variety of health benefits. Now a team of plant physiologists has developed a way to make lettuce darker and redder—and therefore healthier—using ultraviolet light-emitting diodes (LEDs)

18 May 2009

Review of Anti-Infectives Contamination of Water

Anti-infectives have become environmental contaminants of growing concern, as they are transported from landfills, agriculture and urban centers into waterways and drinking water, according to a review article published in the May 2009 issue of the peer-reviewed journal Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP)

18 May 2009