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New Type of Wheel From Michelin Completely Changes Electric Car Possibilities

Michelin has reinvented the wheel, enabling the unveiling of two cars at the Paris Motor Show that usher in a totally new era

30 Nov 2008

Experiment Shows Students How to Save The World One Snack at a Time

The Green Education Foundation and IXG are launching Green Week at William Seach Elementary Schoolin Weymouth, MA

30 Nov 2008

Global Warming Greenhouse Gas Saved Ancient Earth From Becoming Ice Ball

The planet's present day greenhouse scourge, carbon dioxide, may have played a vital role in helping ancient Earth to escape from complete glaciation, say scientists

30 Nov 2008

Software For Eco-Design and Restricted Substances Being Guided by Environmental Materials Information Technology Consortium

The Environmental Materials Information Technology (EMIT) Consortium held its first meeting at the Eurocopter site in Marseille, France in mid-October. The Consortium is guiding development of software to support eco design and to enable design in the context of restricted substances regulations

30 Nov 2008

Microbes Can Generate Electricity and Clean Up Pollution

Microorganisms are vital to humans and the environment. Some can corrode metal or protect it, some microbes generate electricity and some can clean up pollution

30 Nov 2008

Counting and Cutting CO2 Emissions With WWF Travel Helper

WWF and Swiss firm routeRANK have launched an online European travel planner designed to help fight climate change

27 Nov 2008

New Discovery Predicts Where Ice Shelves Will Calve or Break Off

A newly derived, simple law may help scientists improve their climate models and glaciologists predict where icebergs will calve off from their parent ice sheets

27 Nov 2008

Aquatic Osteoporosis Found in North American Lakes

A research team has documented biological damage caused by declining levels of calcium in many temperate, soft-water lakes

27 Nov 2008

Forests and People at Risk From Climate Change Crisis

Unless immediate action is taken, climate change could have a devastating effect on the world's forests and the nearly 1 billion people who depend on them for their livelihoods, warned a leading group of forest scientists in a report to be released next week

27 Nov 2008

Governor’s Award for Environmental and Economic Leadership in Sustainable Communities Goes to Treasure Island

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, California EPA Recognize TI’s Green Building Features and Energy Conservation

27 Nov 2008

Recycling Center to Redirect Plastic Waste from Landfills into Cost Saving Retail and Restaurant Bags

Command Packaging, a leading U.S. manufacturer of plastic carry bags for retail stores and restaurants, announced it has been officially licensed by the California State Department of Conservation as an approved plastic film and bag recycling center

27 Nov 2008

Air New Zealand Set to Test Biofuel Jet Fuels

The world's first commercial aviation test flight powered by a sustainable second-generation biofuel is ready to go

27 Nov 2008

Exposure to Organochlorate Pollutants and Lead Weakens Bones

A new methodology developed by a researcher of the University of Granada will permit to determine the toxicological effects caused in animals which have been exposed to organochlorate pollutants and lead analysing their bones

27 Nov 2008

Asbestos Warnings for Tradespeople from Health and Safety Executive and Jewson

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) and Jewson, the UK's leading supplier of timber and building materials, have joined forces to help warn tradesmen of the dangers of asbestos

27 Nov 2008

Energizer Bunny Just Keeps Going at Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade

The Energizer Bunny surprised the crowds at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade when he continued past the end of the parade down 34th street. The escape marks the beginning of his 20th birthday celebration and brings the first Bunny commercial to life

27 Nov 2008