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Green and Sustainable Building Education from Environmental Center

Sustainable building practices let the Bellevue, WA Environmental Education Center blend with the surrounding environment it aims to teach about

3 Nov 2008

Project to Save the Endangered Tasmanian Devil From Extinction

University of Adelaide zoologist Dr Jeremy Austin will lead a national project to help save the endangered Tasmanian devil from extinction

3 Nov 2008

Changing the Face of Solar Power With Coating that Boosts the Amount of Captured Solar Energy

Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have discovered and demonstrated a new method for overcoming two major hurdles facing solar energy. By developing a new antireflective coating that boosts the amount of sunlight captured by solar panels and allows those panels to absorb the entire solar spectrum from nearly any angle

3 Nov 2008

Volvo Environment Prize Winner Says Financial Markets Can Learn From Ecosystems and Climate Crisis

Politicians and policy-makers all over the world struggle to stabilize the global financial system. But perhaps regulations and command-and-control won’t do much good. Instead, governments should take a closer look at the research on resilience – the capacity of an eco-system to cope with shock and then rebuild and renew itself

3 Nov 2008

African Nations Outline Sustainability Plan

More protected areas, respect for indigenous populations, the sharing of benefits and greater care for forests were all features of a broad sustainability action plan outlined last week by African nations

3 Nov 2008

Researcher Finds Boom and Bust Cycles in Ecology, Plants and Animal Populations

The natural world behaves a lot like the stock market, with periods of relative stability interspersed with dramatic swings in population size and competition between individuals and species

3 Nov 2008

First Hybrid Motor Yacht Uses a Combination Solar - Diesel - Electric Drive System

Powered by wind, solar and diesel, The Island Pilot DSe Hybrid 12m motor yacht is positioned as an environmentally friendly choice in boating due its remarkable efficiency

3 Nov 2008

Update on Sustainable Biofuel Test Flight for Air New Zealand

The world's first commercial aviation flight powered by a sustainable second-generation biofuel moved a step closer

3 Nov 2008

Microsoft and Google Competing in the Ultimate End Game, Renewable Energy Powered Cloud Computing

Exclusive report details plans by Google, Microsoft and others to leverage renewable energy and cloud computing, fundamentally changing the competitive landscape

3 Nov 2008

Energy Saving Televisions Mean Big Reduction in Greenhouse Gas Emissions

New energy efficient television standards equivalent to greenhouse gas emission reductions achieved by removing one million cars from the road

3 Nov 2008

Decomissioning Nuclear Power Plants to Cost UK Over $140 Billion

According to the Nuclear Industry Association, the UK is recognized as one of the top ten global markets for nuclear decommissioning opportunities. It is estimated that the UK will spend in the region of $140 billion on their nuclear clean up initiative

3 Nov 2008

Vineyards Go Solar Powered

SolarCraft announced today it has completed the design and installation of a solar electric system for Trione Vineyards and Winery in California

2 Nov 2008

Gamma Ray Technology from Satellites Being Used to Fight Terrorists and Detect Radioactive Dirty Bombs

A British company has developed a device based on the gamma-ray detection equipment used in ESA's Integral astronomy satellite to detect and identify the radioactive material mixed with conventional explosives in 'dirty bombs'

2 Nov 2008

Glacier Model Set to be Benchmark for Climate Change Studies

EPFL researchers have developed a numerical model that can re-create the state of Switzerland's Rhône Glacier as it was in 1874 and predict its evolution until the year 2100

2 Nov 2008

BioFuels Projects to Use Waste Biomass to Power Hurricane Ike Cleanup

Biofuels Power Corporation (OTCBB:BFLS) announced today that it will manage a project to use wood chips and other refuse from Hurricane Ike cleanup activities in the metro Houston area to fuel a pilot scale power generation and carbon sequestration project that will be connected to the ERCOT grid and provide up to 4 MW of low cost green electricity for Houston

2 Nov 2008