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New Shake Away Organic, Non-toxic Pest Repellent Gets Ride of Unwanted Animal Visitors

New Shake Away granules have the odor of a preditor to repell unwanted pests. The granules are non-toxic, safe to use around your home or business, and effective in repelling larger animals such as deer, elk and raccoons, or smaller pests including rats, skunks, moles, squirrels and rabbits

23 Mar 2009

Environmental Pioneers Sought For World's Greenest Building

Independence Station, the Oregon development slated to become the World's Greenest Building when it opens in 2010, is now accepting priority pre-reservations for the 15 condominium-style homes included in the mixed-use development

23 Mar 2009

Actor Richard Dreyfuss Makes Eco-friendly Renovation and Expansion of His San Diego House

Actor Richard Dreyfuss has chosen the San Diego-based architecture and design firm S.K.I.N. to renovate and environmentally upgrade his 1970s Encinitas residence and property in order to cut his water and power bill to near-zero

23 Mar 2009

Clean, Sustainable Bridge to Global Energy Future May Come From "Ice That Burns"

Natural gas derived from chunks of ice that workers collect from beneath the ocean floor and beneath the arctic permafrost may fuel cars, heat homes, and power factories. Researchers are reporting these "gas hydrates" or frozen natural gas, show promise as an abundant, untapped source of clean, sustainable energy

23 Mar 2009

Oak Ridge National Laboratory to Get $71.2 Million in Recovery Act Funding

Oak Ridge National Laboratory officials announced today that construction will start in eight to 10 weeks on a major research facility made possible by $71.2 million from President Obama’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

23 Mar 2009

New Evidence Emerges For The Existence of Cold Fusion Energy and a New Energy Source

Researchers are reporting compelling new scientific evidence for the existence of low-energy nuclear reactions (LENR), the process once called "cold fusion" that may promise a new source of energy

23 Mar 2009

Green Pesticides Exploit Plant Defenses in Battle To Control Fungi Attacks on Crops

Exploiting a little known defense strategy in the ongoing battle between disease-causing fungi and crop plants, scientists in Canada are reporting development of a new class of green fungicides that could provide a safer, more environmentally-friendly alternative to conventional fungicides

23 Mar 2009

$184.3 Million in Recovery Act Funding for Brookhaven Lab

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory will receive $184.3 million in new science funding from President Obama’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, principally to accelerate construction of the National Synchrotron Light Source II

23 Mar 2009

New Process Turns Waste Paper Products into Cement

An alternative to landfill disposal for waste products of the paper industry that can be used to make clinker for cement production is reported this month by Portuguese scientists

23 Mar 2009

BioEnergy Research Collaborative Examines Ways To Make Biofuels

In a move that will advance development of alternative energy in South Carolina, the state’s leading bioenergy researchers have teamed to study how South Carolina’s agricultural resources can help reduce the state’s and nation’s dependence on fossil fuels

23 Mar 2009

Recovery Funding For Lawrence Berkeley Lab

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced that the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) will receive $115.8 million from President Obama’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

23 Mar 2009

First Solar Hits Gigawatt Milestone

First Solar, Inc announced that it has produced 1 gigawatt (GW) of its advanced solar modules since beginning commercial production in early 2002

23 Mar 2009

Heat Loss From Wooden Buildings Solved With New Insulation Product From Bayer

The detached wooden houses so typical of Scandinavian countries are an attractive complement to their surroundings and - what’s more - are also made using a natural product - wood. However, in the depths of winter, a lack of heat insulation can make getting close to nature a lot less enjoyable and send heating costs soaring

23 Mar 2009

Turkey Needs to Turn to Modern Irrigation Techniques Before Water Runs Out

With less than one tenth of Turkey's irrigable land under modern irrigation techniques vast potentials for water saving exist in agriculture, user of nearly three quarters of the nation's increasingly scarce water

22 Mar 2009

Alternate Thinking the Only Way For New Orleans to Make a Sustainable Recovery from Hurricane Katrina and Withstand Future Storms

Calling New Orleans "the canary in the global warming coal mine," two Tulane professors say the Crescent City must embrace unconventional thinking in order to recover in a sustainable way from Hurricane Katrina while withstanding a continual threat from rising sea levels, diminishing wetlands and future storms

22 Mar 2009