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Building Operating Management Top Products Award Goes to Environmentally Friendly Glo Brite Eco Exit Safety Signs

Jessup Manufacturing Company's Glo Brite Eco Exit safety signs have received a 2009 Top Products Award from Building Operating Management magazine

2 Dec 2008

Largest Single Solar Photovoltaic Installation Now Powering Southern California

Southern California Edison (SCE) today announced completion of the first of its proposed 150 solar photovoltaic installations on Southern California commercial rooftops. The project could eventually cover two square miles of existing commercial roofs with 250 million watts of peak generating capacity

2 Dec 2008

Pocket Guide to Leading a Low Carbon Lifestyle Released

A consumer handbook on how individuals and families can reduce their carbon footprint and monthly outgoings has been published today by WWF

1 Dec 2008

Deforestation of the Amazon Increasing

Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon forests has flipped from a decreasing to an increasing trend, according to new annual figures released yesterday

1 Dec 2008

Scientists Use Salts to Turn Carbohydrates into Biofuels

Scientists have used imidazolium salts (IMSs) to convert carbohydrates into versatile chemical compounds for biofuel production

1 Dec 2008

How Smart Homes Can be Sustainable Homes

Ibexcellence, an intelligent buildings network group run by BRE, has launched a report on how smart home technologies could help new dwellings meet the performance levels of the Code for Sustainable Homes

30 Nov 2008

Threat to Wilkins Ice Shelf

New rifts have developed on the Wilkins Ice Shelf that could lead to the opening of the ice bridge that has been preventing the ice shelf from disintegrating and breaking away from the Antarctic Peninsula

30 Nov 2008

China's Tallest Building Brings New Thinking to Tall Building Sustainability

Groundbreaking ceremonies held today mark the start of construction on Shanghai Tower

30 Nov 2008

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