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Can Natural Indicators in the Environment Be Used to Predict Environmental Disasters

Economists use leading indicators — the drivers of economic performance – to take the temperature of the economy and predict the future. Now, in a new study, scientists take a page from the social science handbook and use leading indicators of the environment to presage the potential collapse of ecosystems

5 Jan 2009

Car Parts Can be Made From Coconuts Say Researchers

A team of Baylor University researchers who have identified a variety of low-cost products that can be manufactured from coconuts in poor coastal regions have now developed a way to use coconut husks in automotive interiors

5 Jan 2009

Large Order Placed For Photovoltaics Solar Cell Manufacturing Equipment

Despatch Industries, a leading process technology provider for the solar industry, announces their recent large volume sale of photovoltaic manufacturing equipment

5 Jan 2009

Webzine Features EcoHousing

Housing is responsible for just over 28 percent of the UK's primary energy consumption and associated CO2 emissions

5 Jan 2009

Research Grant Awarded to Use Nanotechnology to Develop Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Solar Cells

The Advanced Technology Institute at the University of Surrey has been awarded a major research grant by the energy giant E.ON based in Germany as part of their 'Application of Nanotechnology in the Energy Business' to use nanotechnological expertise to develop organic-inorganic hybrid solar cells

5 Jan 2009

Company Celebrates 25 Years of Recyling Lumber into Antique Wood Flooring

Whole Log Lumber, a North Carolina company that sells reclaimed wood, is celebrating 25 years in business

5 Jan 2009

Advanced Li-ion Battery Maker Asks for $480 Million Federal Loan Funds to Accelerate Next-Generation Auto Industry

Low interest Federal funds would help grow domestic production of crucial systems for plug-in electric vehicles and bolster U.S. competitiveness

4 Jan 2009

Aquaculture Set to Remain the Most Rapidly Growing Food Production Sector

Aquaculture production of seafood will probably remain the most rapidly increasing food production system worldwide through 2025, according to an assessment published in the January 2009 issue of BioScience

4 Jan 2009

PECO Increases Wind Energy for Philadelphia Headquarters

As part of its ongoing environmental commitment PECO today announced a three-year, 4,050 megawatt hour per year purchase of wind energy for its Main Office Building at 23rd and Market Streets in Philadelphia

4 Jan 2009

Energy Savings and Tax Credit Earnings With Window Films

CPFilms Inc, the world's leading producer of professional window films for automotive, residential, and commercial markets, has announced that its Vista, LLumar and Gila energy-saving window films will qualify for a federal tax credit in 2009

4 Jan 2009

Alaska Celebrates 50 Years of Seafood Sustainability

On January 3rd Alaska will celebrate its 50th anniversary of statehood and sustainable fisheries management

4 Jan 2009

Air New Zealand Makes Successful Test Flight Using Jatropha Biofuel

The world's first commercial aviation test flight powered by the sustainable second-generation biofuel jatropha has been successfully completed in Auckland

1 Jan 2009

How Water and Forests Interact Presents a Challenge to Forest Management and Water Policies

Incorporating results from forest hydrology studies in water policies can help avoid uncertainty and confusion caused by the current difficulties in transferring research findings to different countries and regions, varying forest types and species and diverse forest management regimes

1 Jan 2009

GreenHunter Biodiesel Approved by the US EPA for On Road Use

GREENHUNTER BIOFUELS, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of GreenHunter Energy, Inc. (AMEX: GRH), announced today that it has registered and been approved by the Environmental Protection Agency to sell GreenHunter Biodiesel to the on-road market in the United States

1 Jan 2009

Green Building Council Gives Chicago FBI Building Higest Level Environmental Award

USAA Real Estate Company is pleased to announce that the Federal Bureau of Investigation Regional Facility located in Chicago, Illinois has earned a Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design for Existing Buildings (LEED EBOM) from the United States Green Building Council (USGBC) at its highest, Platinum level

1 Jan 2009