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Recyled Glass Building Materials Now Available in New Colours For Kitchen and Bathroom Surfaces

Vetrazzo, the original Recycled Glass Surface, unveils four gorgeous new earth-tone colors today that showcase the intersection of high design and respect for the environment

3 May 2009

Energy Frontier Research Center For Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory will be home to one of 46 new multi-million-dollar Energy Frontier Research Centers announced earlier this week by the White House in conjunction with a speech delivered by President Barack Obama

30 Apr 2009

Cleantech Guru to Speak on the Third Industrial Revolution

President of the Foundation on Economic Trends and professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Jeremy Rifkin, will be a keynote speaker at the CleanTech Innovation Marketplace conference, at HiT Barcelona

30 Apr 2009

Arizona State University to Get New Energy Frontier Research Center

Arizona State University will be home to a new Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC) announced by the White House in conjunction with a speech delivered by President Barack Obama

30 Apr 2009

Toshiba America Nuclear Energy Corporation To Establish An Engineering Center in North Carolina

Toshiba Corporation today announced that Toshiba America Nuclear Energy Corporation, a U.S.-based Toshiba Group company, will establish an engineering center in Charlotte, North Carolina

29 Apr 2009

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to Speak at Solar Energy Summit

In partnership with the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, SolarTech, an initiative of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group and the California Solar Energy Industries Association announce the participation of California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger as an honorary guest speaker at their inaugural Summit

29 Apr 2009

Biofuel Development To Benefit From Lignocellulose Development Grant

Cutting edge approaches and methodology employed by plant and molecular biologists, chemists, physicists, material scientists, computational modelers and engineers will be applied to plant cells in the newly funded Center for Lignocellulose Structure and Formation, a Department of Energy, Energy Frontier Research Center at Penn State

29 Apr 2009

Greenhouse Gas Storage and Revolutionary Solar Cells to be Developed With New Grants

With two $15 million grants, scientists and engineers aim to revolutionize solar cells and provide the fundamental science for geological storage of greenhouse gases as part of two Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRCs) established at The University of Texas at Austin by the U.S. Department of Energy

29 Apr 2009

Coca-Cola Moves Forward With Positive Environmental Steps in Washington D.C.

Coca-Cola will demonstrate their environmental leadership through a series of innovations designed to reduce the Coca-Cola system’s environmental footprint at each step in the manufacturing, distribution and sales processes

29 Apr 2009

High Performance Green Buildings Gain Recognition For Kohl

Kohl’s Department Stores (NYSE:KSS) announced today that 110 additional Kohl’s stores earned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) ENERGY STAR label, a nationally recognized symbol for superior energy efficiency and environmental protection

29 Apr 2009

Guilty Plea For Former Oklahoma Water Treatment Supervisor Who Falsified Drinking Water Safety Reports

Christopher Neil Gauntt, the former supervisor of the Fort Gibson Water Treatment Plant in Fort Gibson, Okla., pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Muskogee, Okla., to falsifying a monthly operating report that certified the safety of drinking water from the facilit

29 Apr 2009

Salmon of the America's Responds to Pharmaceutical Contamination Claims by PEW Environmental Group

In a press release issued by the PEW Environmental Group, the group announced that they have issued a letter to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warning the acting commissioner of the potential environmental threats related to the discharge of banned drugs into the marine environment as well as the human health risk allegedly resulting from the medical treatment of farmed salmon

29 Apr 2009

Siemens to Expand EcoFriendly Product Range

Siemens intends to rigorously expand its world-leading position as a supplier of ecofriendly products and solutions

29 Apr 2009

The Future of Solar Technology in Buildings Will Be Fast and Strong Growth After The Recession

The solar building integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) and the solar thermal heating systems (STS) markets have been hit hard by the current economic situation. However, as soon as the recession shows signs of recovery, both sectors will start booming again

29 Apr 2009

Green Building on the Agenda for Affordable Housing Conference

Council for Energy Friendly Affordable Housing (CEFAH), an affiliate of the National Housing & Rehabilitation Association, is convening a Green Housing Symposium on May 11 at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza in Los Angeles, California

29 Apr 2009