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IBM Helps With Optimization of Highmark Green Data Center

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced it has partnered with Highmark Inc. to transform Highmark's energy-efficient data center in its Harrisburg, PA location

21 Dec 2008

Air Force Base Adopts Geothermal Heating

Geothermal heating has been used since the time of the Romans as a way of heating buildings, and now it has come to Minot Air Force Base

21 Dec 2008

Grants to Help Electric Car Industry

U.S. Li-ion Auto Battery Maker Ener1 Voices Support for $1.6 Billion Federal Grant to Propel Electric Vehicle Technology

21 Dec 2008

Call For Foods Made With Nanotechnology to be Regulated for Safety

Nanotechnology policy experts are urging that food additives that contain nanoscale materials be subject to new safety testing to ensure that their use does not pose unintended risks

21 Dec 2008

Chemical Scrubbing Technology from Dow to be Used to Capture Power Plant Carbon Emissions

Advanced amine-based scrubbing technology from The Dow Chemical Company (Dow) is expected to be used in a pilot carbon capture and storage (CCS) plant built by Alstom Power, Inc. (Alstom) at the Belchatow Power Plant in Poland

17 Dec 2008

Has a New Glacial Age Been Diverted by Climate Change

The common wisdom is that the invention of the steam engine and the advent of the coal-fueled industrial age marked the beginning of human influence on global climate

17 Dec 2008

Sustainable Building Products Brochure Published by PPG

PPG Industries has published EcoLogical Building Solutions, a new brochure highlighting its sustainable architectural glass, coatings and paint products

17 Dec 2008

No Need for Batteries in Energy Harvesting Radios for Monitoring Bridge Safety

If changing the batteries in the remote control or smoke detector seems like a chore, imagine having to change hundreds of batteries in sensors scattered across a busy bridge

17 Dec 2008

Nanotechnologies for Cleantech Report

Clean-tech investing is at an all time high and is expected to flourish in a range of sectors, including renewable and distributed energy, advanced materials, transportation, and water purification and management

17 Dec 2008

New Lightweight, Resilient and Recyclable Plastic Chosen For Use in Electronic Car

A lightweight, resilient and 100 percent recyclable expanded polypropylene has been selected by Nordic low emissions car manufacturer

17 Dec 2008

ExxonMobil Invests $1Billion on Clean Diesel

ExxonMobil Refining and Supply has announced it will invest more than $1 billion in three refineries to increase the supply of cleaner burning diesel by about six million gallons per day

17 Dec 2008

Glaciers in Greenland Losing Ice Faster This Year than Last

Researchers watching the loss of ice flowing out from the giant island of Greenland say that the amount of ice lost this summer is nearly three times what was lost one year ago

15 Dec 2008

Antarctic Ice Melting and Bedrock Is Moving

As ice melts away from Antarctica, parts of the continental bedrock are rising in response -- and other parts are sinking, scientists have discovered

15 Dec 2008

Study Shows How Salt Water Irrigation Works

Take an arid field riddled with salty soil. Irrigate it with salty water. Plant a salt-tolerant grass along with a salt-sucking companion plant and what do you get? If you're a Brigham Young University research team, you raise a crop that successfully replaces corn as cattle feed

15 Dec 2008

Australian Emissions Reduction Plan Branded Low, Unacceptable, Pitiful, Short Sighted and Pandering to Polluters

In the space of a year Australia has gone from climate change hero to climate change under-achiever, announcing an emissions reduction target of just 5-15 per cent by 2020

15 Dec 2008