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Sustainable Building Award Comes In Part Due to Rockwool Rockfloor Insulation

Rockwool’s Rockfloor mineral wool insulation helped Wolseley,
a leading supplier of construction products and materials, secure the Edie Award for Best Sustainable Construction Project

28 Apr 2009

Large Scale Production of Jatropha Oil to be Accelerated by SG Biofuels Genetic Resource Center

SG Biofuels has announced the opening of its Jatropha Genetic Resource Center (GRC) to further accelerate profitable, large-scale production of Jatropha as a low-cost, sustainable source of feedstock for biofuel

28 Apr 2009

Marcal Paper Products Contest Encourages Artists to Help Them Save Trees

As an advocate for the trees that keep the earth healthy, Marcal Paper Products, LLC, one of the nation's oldest earth-friendly paper goods producer of household recycled tissue paper products, today announces its Marcal(R) Small Steps(TM) "Save the Trees" Paper Towel Design Contest

28 Apr 2009

Lost World of Dinosaurs That Survived Extinction May Be A Reality

New scientific evidence suggests that dinosaur bones from the Ojo Alamo Sandstone in the San Juan Basin, USA, date from after the extinction, and that dinosaurs may have survived in a remote area of what is now New Mexico and Colorado for up to half a million years

28 Apr 2009

Los Angeles Community College District to Host Sustainability Conference

The Los Angeles Community College District will become the first community college system ever to host the UC/CSU/CCC Annual Sustainability Conference

28 Apr 2009

Ford Fusion Hybrid Breaks 1,000 Miles on Single Tank and Keeps on Going

At 9:08 a.m. this morning, the 2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid team hit the 1,000-mile mark on a single tank of gas, and is continuing its ultimate fuel-efficiency challenge with nearly one-third of a tank of fuel remaining

28 Apr 2009

L.A. Metro and Chevron Energy Solutions Lift The Veil On The Largest Solar Panel Installation at a Transit Facility in The USA

The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) today unveiled a groundbreaking energy efficiency and renewable power project with the installation of the nation's largest solar panel system at a transit facility. It is also the largest solar panel installation within the City of Los Angeles

28 Apr 2009

Bricks Made From Cow Dung Win Global Social Venture Competition

Making high-quality bricks from abundantly available cow dung – instead of depleting scarce firewood and clay – earned the EcoFaeBrick team from Prasetiya Mulya Business School in Indonesia the $25,000 top prize at the tenth annual Global Social Venture Competition

27 Apr 2009

Stored Nuclear Fuel To Be Protected From Causing Contamination By Using The Hydrogen

When Sweden's spent nuclear fuel is to be permanently stored, it will be protected by three different barriers. Even if all three barriers are damaged, the nuclear fuel will not dissolve into the groundwater, according to a new doctoral dissertation from Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden

27 Apr 2009

India's Poor to Benefit From Solar Powered Lamps

Solar energy has the potential to improve the living conditions of poor rural households in India as well as contribute to the country's future energy security

27 Apr 2009

Asteroid Impact Did Not Cause Dinosaur Extinction

The enduringly popular theory that the Chicxulub asteroid crater holds the clue to the demise of the dinosaurs, along with some 65 percent of all species 65 million years ago, is challenged in a paper to be published in the Journal of the Geological Society

27 Apr 2009

Sustainable Living Off The Grid In A Modern Yurt

Everett Boutilett and Louis Johnson always had the intention of building a small, energy efficient dwelling. Although their original plans were to build an earth sheltered home, a close friend convinced them that a yurt might be the way to go

27 Apr 2009

Golden Opportunity Missed by California in Reducing Carbon Emissions

The California Air Resources Board (ARB) on Thursday voted to adopt a highly controversial Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS), but agreed to convene an expert work group to assist the Board in “refining and improving the land use and indirect effect analysis of transportation fuels.”

27 Apr 2009

Environmentally Friendly, Recyclable Power Cables Being Developed

Engineers at the University of Southampton are part of a team developing new "green" power cables which can be recycled at the end of their lives

27 Apr 2009

Jet Fuel Made From Seeds by Renewable Fuel Company Reduces Carbon Emissions by 84 Percent

Renewable fuels company Sustainable Oils today announced the results of a life cycle analysis (LCA) of jet fuel created from camelina seeds developed by the company, which shows that the renewable fuel reduces carbon emissions by 84 percent compared to petroleum jet fuel

27 Apr 2009