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IBM Helps Religare Data Centers Go Green

IBM announced that it is deploying three energy-efficient and green Scalable Modular Data Centers (SMDCs) in a US$3.1 million IT infrastructure services agreement with Religare Enterprises Limited (REL), which is one of the leading integrated financial services groups of India

3 Feb 2009

Whole Log Lumber Show How Beauty and Sustainability Go Hand-in-Hand

Sustainability isn't something that often gets associated with beauty. One North Carolina based company, Whole Log Lumber, is beginning to change that idea with their recycled lumber products

3 Feb 2009

BASF Research Units Increasing Production Efficiency and Sustainability

BASF's research units are its pulsating lifelines. The worldwide Verbund of creative thinkers is constantly producing new ideas and projects, driving forward the company even in economically difficult times

2 Feb 2009

Freetrade Chocolates from Plush Chocolates Also Come in Environmentally Friendly Packaging

Plush Chocolates, a new 100 percent Fairtrade company, have launched their product ranges with eco friendly packaging for their Luxury Fairtrade English and Belgian Chocolate collections

2 Feb 2009

There's Gold In The Toilet as Japan Mines Gold From Human Sewage

Yomiuri and Nagano Nippo are reporting that a sewage plant in Japan's Nagano prefecture has started mining gold from sewage sludge

2 Feb 2009

Nansulate Thermal Insulation Being Incorporated into Solar Panels and Solar Hot Water Systems

Industrial Nanotech announced today that the Company's patented Nansulate protective thermal insulation coatings are now incorporated into solar hot water heater and solar panel systems

2 Feb 2009

Consumer Watchdog Expands Investigation Into Possibly Toxic Chinese Made Drywall

Because of consumer horror stories, Americas Watchdog's Homeowners Consumer Center is expanding its Florida investigation of possibly toxic Chinese imported Chinese dry wall.

2 Feb 2009

Bob Geldof to Speak About the Benefits of Biofuels

Sir Bob Geldof will be a keynote speaker at the 2009 World Biofuels Markets (WBM) congress and exhibition, to be held in Brussels on the 16-18th March

2 Feb 2009

3M Launches Renewable Energy Division

3M has announced the formation of its new Renewable Energy Division. This organization will enable 3M to maximize the company's technologies, products and responsiveness to the fast-changing renewable energy industry

2 Feb 2009

PGI Increases Corporate Sustainability Program

PGI has announced it is strengthening its corporate sustainability program with a focused and expanded initiative in this area led by the company's first chief sustainability officer

2 Feb 2009

BioEnergy Plants in Rural India to Tackle Energy Poverty

Aston University and the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi have secured a grant to build bio-energy power plants, which will tackle energy poverty in rural India and promote renewable energy in the United Kingdom

2 Feb 2009

Topsoil Screener That Allows Onsite Screening and Recycling of Topsoil

The EZ-Screen 1200XL enables contractors to recycle topsoil on the jobsite, eliminating energy consumption used on disposing of old soil and trucking in new soil

2 Feb 2009

Hanley Wood's ECOHOME Becomes Finalist for Best Start-Up Magazine and New Web Site

ECOHOME, an integrated network of media including a magazine, Web site and e-newsletter, is a finalist in the 2009 Neal Awards competition and min's 2008 Best of the Web Awards

2 Feb 2009

Energy, Biotechnology and Agribusiness Experts Team Up to Form SG Biofuels to Develop Jatropha as Low-Cost, Sustainable Oil

Following three years of research, a team of energy, biotechnology and agribusiness veterans today announced the formation of SG Biofuels, a San Diego, CA-based plant oil company specializing in the development of Jatropha as a low-cost, sustainably produced source of oil

2 Feb 2009

U.S. Secret Plan to Increase Whaling

Documents released today by the International Whaling Commission (IWC) confirm the United States' leadership in negotiations to undo the global moratorium on commercial whaling and extend unprecedented authorization to the Government of Japan to kill whales off its coastline and in international waters

2 Feb 2009