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Engineering Students Take on Shell Eco-Marathon With Fuel Miser Vehicle

With its light body made of Kevlar, sleek aerodynamic design and three Olympic-racing wheelchair tires, it looks like something that escaped from the Batcave. But actually it's a school project by a team of six Dalhousie University senior mechanical engineering students

18 Feb 2009

Deforestation, Sustainable Environmental Practices, Disease and the Collapse of Easter Island

Rather than environmentally destroying Easter Island, the Rapanui people were also developing sustainable practices - innovating, experimenting, trying to adapt to a risky environment - and they would still be here today if it weren't for the diseases introduced by European settlers

18 Feb 2009

HFCL Selects IBM BladeCentre and System x Server Technology to Support Robust IT Infrastructure and Increase Energy Efficiency

The HFCL Group, a leading player in the telecom sector in India, has selected IBM to integrate and implement innovative blade server technology to help reduce its operational costs and "Go Green" while increasing efficiency

18 Feb 2009

SOLA II Flare for Refineries from Thermo Fisher Scientific Delivers Fast Results, Unmatched Dynamic Range and Smaller Footprint

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced a more compact and cost-efficient solution for refineries and related facilities seeking to meet the new Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) sulfur emission regulations

18 Feb 2009

The Top 50 Greener Gadget Designs Announced

Greener Gadgets are excited to announce the top 50 finalists of the Greener Gadget Design Competition

18 Feb 2009

Boeing Hits Major Environmental Certification Goal

Boeing today announced that all of its major manufacturing facilities received the internationally recognized ISO 14001 environmental certification by the end of 2008, marking achievement of one of the company's most significant environmental goals

18 Feb 2009

Dow Corning Steps Up Efforts to Increase Vehicle Fuel Efficiency With Green Tires

Dow Corning scientists are stepping up their search for a technology solution that will help improve fuel efficiency for millions of drivers worldwide. Green tires are already in widespread use on cars, particularly in Europe, but Dow Corning is now working on them for trucks and road tankers

18 Feb 2009

Over 500 Cities Sign Up For Earth Hour Climate Change Awareness

The global call to action on climate change has been answered from east to west as a record 538 cities and towns in 75 countries sign up to turn their lights off at 8.30pm on 28 March for Earth Hour 2009

18 Feb 2009

Konarka Gets Additional Funding For Plastic Material That Turns Light into Electricity

Konarka Technologies an innovator in development and commercialization of Konarka Power Plastic a material that converts light to energy, today announced the company has received $5 million in financing in connection with its recently opened production facility
in the city of New Bedford

18 Feb 2009

Production Begins On World's Largest Solar Power Modules

T-Solar Global S.A. announced today that it has begun volume production of the world's largest solar photovoltaic (PV) modules using a SunFab Thin Film Line supplied by Applied Materials

18 Feb 2009

Schneider Electric and Philips Launch Building Control and Energy Management System

Schneider Electric and Philips have launched a new vision for interoperability in home automation and building control at the ZigBee Alliance’s European Smart Energy Forum in Dublin, Ireland

18 Feb 2009

Applied Materials Set to Continue to Lead The Solar Electricity Charge

Applied Materials executive team have discussed the company's plans for preserving its strong financial position while investing hundreds of millions of dollars to extend its leadership in semiconductors, LCD display, crystalline silicon and thin-film solar, and other energy and environmental products

18 Feb 2009

Pirelli Eco Technology Filter Reduces More Than 95 Percent of Diesel Engine Exhaust Particles

Pirelli Diesel Particulate Filter systems, called Feelpure, are produced using silicon carbide, a thermal-shock-resistant ceramic material, and allow for an average reduction in particulate matter emitted by diesel engines of more than 95 percent and the abatement of 50 percent of NO2

18 Feb 2009

Clean and Sustainable Technologies in Australia Boosted with The Launch of CleanFutures, Joining Nanotechnology and CleanTech

South Australia continues to be a focal point for expertise in clean and sustainable technologies with the launch of new venture CleanFutures

17 Feb 2009

Cement Quality, Efficiency and Environmental Control to be Discussed at Building Materials Workshop

PANalytical is pleased to announce that renowned Dutch scientist and diffraction analysis pioneer, Dr. Hugo Rietveld, will be the keynote speaker on the first day of the 2009 Building Materials Analysis workshop to be held at the Martin Luther University

17 Feb 2009