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Sustainable Palm Oil Shipment Marks the Possible End of Rainforest Destruction

The arrival of the first certified sustainable palm oil shipment in Europe opens up possibilities for palm oil users to move away from subsidising forest destruction and social disruption from expanding palm oil plantations

12 Nov 2008

Boston's First Skyscaper Gets Energy Efficient LED Lighting Makeover

Boston's first official skyscraper, the Marriott Custom House Tower, has undergone a long-awaited lighting makeover to reclaim its skyline prominence with LED fixtures that consume just one third the energy of the previous sources

12 Nov 2008

Electricity Utility Turns Green With Neon Sign Being Replaced by LED Lights

The letters still glow bright red, but ComEd's prominent sign atop its Oakbrook Terrace headquarters has gone green

12 Nov 2008

Green Sports Score Card Helps Sporting Organizations Assess Their Environmental Friendliness

The GW School of Business' Institute for Corporate Responsibility and Sport Management program has launched a "Green Sports Score Card" research initiative that will help sports organizations globally assess their environmental friendliness

12 Nov 2008

Chemical Scrubbing Process Being Developed to Remove Carbon Dioxide from the Air

Karl Anders Hoff and his colleagues at SINTEF are developing chemical scrubbing processes for capturing carbon dioxide, the greenhouse gas that is spewed out by factories and as flue gases from coal and gas-fired power stations

12 Nov 2008

Airport Malaria Causing Problems in the US

Airport malaria is transmitted when a mosquito infected with the disease bites a human in the vicinity of an international airport. Warmer climate changes in major U.S. cities with a large presence of international air traffic, seem to have created a more welcoming environment where these infected mosquitoes can survive

11 Nov 2008

Octillion to Generate Electricity from the Energy of Moving Vehicles

Octillion Corp., a next-generation alternative and renewable energy technology developer, today announced plans to further Octillion’s development of first-generation devices capable of generating electricity by harvesting energy from vehicles in motion

11 Nov 2008

Green Building Speaker Wated Globally to Talk About Green Building

Green building speaker and consultant Jerry Yudelson keynoted an awards ceremony at Europe's largest real estate conference and at four other conferences around the world

11 Nov 2008

Clean Diesel TDI Trophy Truck from Volkswagen Entered in 41st SCORE Baja 1000

Volkswagen of America, Inc. has announced the all new Volkswagen-Red Bull Baja Race Touareg TDI, powered by a clean diesel TDI engine, will enter this year's 41st Annual Tecate SCORE Baja 1000 desert race in the SCORE Trophy Truck class

11 Nov 2008

Energy Conservation and Building Maintenance to be Focus of Conference

Did you know that buildings consume one-third of the energy worldwide? And that by 2030, world energy consumption is projected to increase 60 percent? Building owners and facility managers do not need to wait to ...

11 Nov 2008

Environmental Artificial Lagoons Showcased at Asian Property Market

Today, a Chile-based crystalline lagoon inventor and patent owner officially announces its presence of the state-of-the-art technology to Asian audiences at the third edition of MIPIM Asia, the world's property market in Asia

11 Nov 2008

Clean Coal Group Claims Using Renewable Energy For Electricity Will Harm Electricity Supply Grid

Drastically reducing carbon emissions through fuel switching could prove detrimental to the effectiveness of North America's transmission infrastructure, this according to a new report by the North American Electric Reliability Corporation

11 Nov 2008

Carbon Trust Standard Achieved by Keele University

Keele University has been officially certified with the Carbon Trust Standard after taking action on climate change by reducing its carbon footprint by three per cent

11 Nov 2008

Solar Powered International Space Station to Become 'Greener' With Water Recycling

Christopher Ferguson, a Drexel University alumnus and Philadelphia native will lead the crew of the space shuttle Endeavour for the first time as mission commander. During the mission, crew members will install a system that recycles urine into drinking water

11 Nov 2008

University of Notre Dame Adopts Energy Efficient LED Lighting Program

Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq:CREE), a leader in LED lighting, announces that the University of Notre Dame is joining the LED University(tm) program, an international community of universities working to accelerate the adoption of energy-efficient LEDs across their campuses

11 Nov 2008