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WWF Develops Climate Change Action Plan

With a series of critical European Union meetings on a new global climate deal about to begin, WWF has set out what Europe needs to do to grow in a green way while contributing to helping the world avoid passing the 2 degree threshold of warming that presents unacceptable risks of catastrophic climate change

2 Mar 2009

PG and E Plans to Develop Up To 500MW of Solar Power in California

Pacific Gas and Electric Company has announced plans for a five-year program to develop up to 500 megawatts (MW) of clean solar photovoltaic (PV) power in its northern and central California service area

2 Mar 2009

Largest Solar Energy Project in New York History Announced

Governor David A. Paterson today announced that the largest solar energy project in New York State history is moving forward on Long Island, increasing the State's total solar energy production threefold

1 Mar 2009

Climate Change Evidence From Millions of Years Ago Points to an Underestimation of Current Climate Change Predictions

New temperature data and numerical climate model simulations contradict the long-held idea that global temperatures were steady in the greenhouse-to-icehouse transition 34 million years ago. This suggests that models in use now to predict climate change may be underestimating future polar warming

1 Mar 2009

Volunteers to Track Climate Change by Obeserving Flowers Blooming

Thousands of volunteers are taking part in a nationwide initiative to track climate change by recording the timing of flowering, leafing, and other plant life cycle events

1 Mar 2009

Starbucks Goes Green With The Opening of LEED Certified Coffee Roasting Plant

Starbucks Coffee Company has announced the opening of its state of the art roasting plant located in Calhoun County in central South Carolina

1 Mar 2009

Hungary Loses Green Credibility By Propping Up Budget Rather Than Spending Carbon Credit Money on Renewable Energy

Hungary - a major seller of carbon credits– will weaken its credibility in the growing international carbon markets by using revenues to prop up its budget rather than green its energy production, WWF-Hungary has warned

1 Mar 2009

Making a High-Energy Fuel by Recycling a Greenhouse Gas Using the Sun

A team of researchers at Penn State has come up with an ingenious method of turning captured CO2 into methane using the energy of the sun

1 Mar 2009

28 Million Scouts Get Behind Earth Hour

The Scouts, the world's largest youth movement with more than 28 million members in 160 countries, lead thousands of community groups around the world mobilising their supporters for Earth Hour, the global expression of a desire for serious and sustained action on climate change

1 Mar 2009

Magnesium to be Key Material for Energy Efficient Transport

Magnesium and its alloys are being considered for structural applications in every type of vehicle because of their favorable combination of tensile strength, elastic modulus, and low density, according to ASM International, the materials information society

1 Mar 2009

Natural Defences of Crops Against Predators

Ever since insects developed a taste for vegetation, plants have faced the same dilemma - use limited resources to out-compete their neighbors for light to grow, or, invest directly in defense against hungry insects

1 Mar 2009

Innovative Housing for Solar Cells Boosts Solar Energy Conversion

The housing for a new, innovatively designed photovoltaic module that concentrates the sun's rays is made with DuPont Rynite PET resin. The rugged, dimensionally stable molded housing helps focus concentrator optics and boost solar energy conversion

1 Mar 2009

LOT To Demonstrate Solar Simulators

The first class Solar Simulators and probe stations of Abet Technologies are combined with high quality measurement instruments and the ReRa Tracer software. LOT are holding an Abet Solar Simulator (Photovoltaics) Workshop/Demonstration at their offices on Tuesday 31st March

27 Feb 2009

Siemens Energy Looks At Innovative Ways to Plug Electric Vehicles Into The Power Grid

As a partner in an international consortium Siemens Energy is to investigate within the framework of the EDISON project innovative options for connecting electric vehicles to the public power supply grid

27 Feb 2009

Siemens Wind Energy Investments Improve Financial Projections for Wind Farm Operators

Siemens Energy has entered into a cooperative research and development agreement (CRADA) with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) to conduct atmospheric modeling research that is expected to help operators and owners operate wind farms more efficiently, while providing more power to power grids

27 Feb 2009