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Parents Encouraged to Buy Healthy Toys for Children This Christmas

Instead of shopping for the hottest pricey toy this holiday season, Dr. Paula Kramer, chair and professor of occupational therapy at University of the Sciences in Philadelphia, encourages parents to buy their children toys that promote healthy childhood development

11 Dec 2008

Whole Foods Market Named No. 1 Retailer in Seafood Sustainability by Greanpeace

Whole Foods Market has again been named the nation's number one retailer in seafood sustainability by Greenpeace

11 Dec 2008

Report Released into the State of Thin Film Photovoltaics Markets

NanoMarkets, a leading industry analyst firm based here, today announced it has released an updated analysis of the thin-film photovoltaics (TFPV) markets

11 Dec 2008

New Era of Solar Energy Will Be One of Survival of the Fittest

A visit to the bar at the top of the Jimao tower in Shanghai, one of the highest buildings in the world, presents the dynamics of the Chinese PV industry in better perspective

11 Dec 2008

Construction Campies to Halve the Amount of Waste Sent to Landfill

Leading companies across the construction supply chain have committed to collectively halve the amount of construction waste sent to landfill by 2012

11 Dec 2008

New Controller Released for Energy Efficient LED Lighting Systems

Following the release of the world's first microcontroller (MCU) with four-channel constant-current drive for LED lighting systems, NEC Electronics Corporation this month began shipment of 14 new 8-bit All Flash MCUs for energy-efficient lighting applications

11 Dec 2008

New High Efficiency, Low Energy Light Bulb Technology from GE

Miniaturized electronics developed by GE Consumer + Industrial engineers and scientists are the enabling technology of a new covered GE Energy Smart compact fluorescent light (CFL) bulb featuring the GE Spiral CFL inside the glass bulb

11 Dec 2008

European Butterflies Face Threat from Climate Change

Climate change will cause Europe to lose much of its biodiversity as projected by a comprehensive study on future butterfly distribution

11 Dec 2008

Fuel Cell Research Center Established by University of Delaware

The University of Delaware has established the Center for Fuel Cell Research (CFCR) to improve the understanding of fuel cells and address critical issues and barriers to commercialization

10 Dec 2008

Green Construction Course from University of Arkansas at Little Rock

Construction management Department at UALR offers a new course this spring teaching builders the techniques of building environmentally friendly new construction and retrofitting existing business to be more green

10 Dec 2008

Urban Agriculture Summit From Sky Vegetables

Sky Vegetables, will host a summit of industry-leading specialists from around the world at the first-ever Building-Integrated Sustainable Agriculture (B-ISA) Summit

10 Dec 2008

Earth Hour to be Huge Boost to Climate Change Awareness

Dozens of events around the world today marked the launch of the campaign for Earth Hour 2009, a global climate event for which 74 cities in 62 countries have already committed to switch off their lights on March 28

10 Dec 2008

Stunted and Deformed Fish in Polluted San Francisco Water

Striped bass in the San Francisco Estuary are contaminated before birth with a toxic mix of pesticides, industrial chemicals and flame retardants that their mothers acquire from estuary waters and food sources and pass on to their eggs

10 Dec 2008

Global Food Security Through Organic Farming

Ogranic Farming methods proven worldwide can sustain farmer profits, address hunger and malnutrition and restore ecological health

10 Dec 2008

Emirates to Make World's Longest Green Flight

On December 15th, Emirates Airline, with one of the world's youngest fleets, will trial a new environmental program to execute the longest green journey

10 Dec 2008