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Queensland Government in Australia to Fund Research Into Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Cattle and Sheep

The Queensland Government has secured funding for three new, major research projects aimed at cutting the greenhouse gas belched out by livestock

6 Apr 2009

Investigation Continues into Toxic Chinese Drywall Now in Texas

Americas Watchdog and its Homeowners Consumer Center have been advancing a nationwide and state by state of toxic Chinese drywall since the beginning of the year

6 Apr 2009

Additional $85M for Fisker Automotive to Develop Plug-In Hybrid Cars

Fisker Automotive, Inc., a leading producer of advanced green technology automobiles, announced today it has entered into definitive agreements to receive an additional $85 million in venture capital funding for the development and manufacturing of its Karma plug-in hybrid automobiles

6 Apr 2009

Gulf Alternative Energy Turns Non-Food Plant Matter Into Bio Fuel

Transforming cellulose to ethanol efficiently is a technical challenge that will transform the biofuels industry. Gulf Alternative Energy believes it has moved the industry much closer to economic viability with its preprocessing technology

6 Apr 2009

Methane Gas From Landfill to Generate Electricity Near Seattle

King County, Puget Sound Energy and Bio Energy-Washington, are joining forces to turn the public's garbage into natural gas - an innovation that will generate enough electricity to power an estimated 24,000 homes in the area while at the same time cutting greenhouse-gas emissions and creating green jobs

6 Apr 2009

Latest NASA Data Shows Arctic Sea Ice Is Disappearing

The latest data from NASA and the University of Colorado at Boulder's National Snow and Ice Data Center show the continuation of a decade-long trend of shrinking sea ice extent in the Arctic, including new evidence for thinning ice as well

6 Apr 2009

Monitoring System Helps Concrete Producers Get Greener

Fortrans Inc. announces a self-contained pH control and monitoring system that uses CO2 gas to neutralize high pH process water produced at ready mixed concrete plants

6 Apr 2009

Energy Efficient Retrofit for Empire State Building

World's most famous office building's more than $500 million upgrade program to incorporate comprehensive project with goal to reduce energy use by nearly 40 percent

6 Apr 2009

Forecast Report Released into the Worldwide Electric Vehicle Market

Worldwide Nanotechnology Electric Vehicle EV Market Shares Strategies and Forecasts 2009 to 2015 report released

6 Apr 2009

Climate Change Message Being Taken to the Top of Mount Everest

A sherpa set off to climb Mount Everest for a record 19th time to take an anti-climate change message to the world’s highest peak

6 Apr 2009

Farming is a Business and What is the Better Strategy - Conventional Cropping or Organic?

The rise in organic cropping has led agronomists at the University of Wisconsin to study whether or not it can be as profitable for farmers as monocropping systems, and they were able to conclude that governmental policy supporting mono-culture is outdated and should be shifted to promote organic farming practices

6 Apr 2009

Business Students Win With Plan to Clean Up Polluted Water in India

Small textile firms that dominate the industry in South India cannot afford traditional wastewater treatment, so they simply dump toxin-filled water into the local rivers. That's the problem that a team of University of Virginia business students has a plan to solve. And their plan has been getting some validation recently

6 Apr 2009