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IBM Uses Red Hat to Reduce Datacenter Carbon Footprint

Red Hat, Inc. , the world's leading provider of open source solutions, and IBM have announced that Bank of New Zealand, a subsidiary of the National Australia Bank Group, has deployed Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 on IBM System z mainframes to solve environment, space and cost issues related to its datacenter

8 Feb 2009

Rural Community Shows Green Heating is a Viable Option

An historic Norfolk town has placed itself at the cutting edge of green technology by hosting the world’s first trial of a renewable heating oil that can be used in existing boilers

8 Feb 2009

Biomass Combustion Heater Brings New Era in Sustainable and High Efficiency Home Heating

Scientists in Japan are reporting development of an improved "biomass charcoal combustion heater" that they say could open a new era in sustainable and ultra-high efficiency home heating

8 Feb 2009

New Book Shows the Science Behind Fuel Cell Power

The new book by John Wiley and Sons, Fuel Cells: Fundamentals (2nd edition) takes the miracle of fuels cell into the real world by introducing the basic science behind the technology

8 Feb 2009

Scientists Get Closer to High Efficiency Mass Produced Fuel Cells Made Using Nanotechnology

Researchers have found that carbon nanotubes containing nitrogen are cheaper and work better than platinum in providing long-term fuel cell power

8 Feb 2009

Predicting theEnvironmental Impact of Building Construction

A team of researchers from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC) has developed a method that makes it possible to evaluate the environmental impacts caused during the construction of buildings in advance

5 Feb 2009

Sustainable Management of Canada's Ocean Resources The Goal of New Network

Dalhousie University is celebrating the recent launch of the NSERC Canadian Healthy Oceans Network (CHONe). CHONe will bring together Canada’s marine science capacities and provide a baseline of information against which future changes in the oceans can be monitored and understood

5 Feb 2009

Commercial Fisherman Banned From Chasing Fishing Ground Revealed by Retreating Arctic Ice

Commercial fishing in US Arctic waters is to be banned at least until its effects are understood, the North Pacific Fishery Management Council decided today

5 Feb 2009

2009 NextGen Home Showcases New Green Building Materials

New green building materials are currently on display at the 2009 NextGen Home in Las Vegas

5 Feb 2009

Butterfly Wings Have Natural Solar Collectors That Are Inspiring Better and More Powerful Solar Electricity Cells

The discovery that butterfly wings have scales that act as tiny solar collectors has led scientists in China and Japan to design a more efficient solar cell that could be used for powering homes, businesses, and other applications in the future

4 Feb 2009

Stratospheric Ozone Depletion Recovery May Be Delayed by Global Warming

Increasing greenhouse gases could delay, or even postpone indefinitely, the recovery of stratospheric ozone in some regions of the Earth

4 Feb 2009

Climate Change Records to be Set By Earth Hour 2009

With eight weeks still to go, citizens, businesses and public authorities in 375 cities across 74 countries have already committed to turning off their lights for one hour at 8.30pm on 28 March in a graphic show of support for decisive action on climate change

4 Feb 2009