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Network Aims to Inspire Consumers to Learn and Take Action to Lighten Environmental Footprint

Today The Timberland Company announced the global launch of the Earthkeeper campaign, a movement to recruit one million people to become part of an online network designed to inspire real environmental behavior change.

10 Jun 2008

Award Recognizes Outstanding Marketplace Contributions to Clean Air and Energy Efficiency

Diversified industrial manufacturer Eaton Corporation announced today it has received the CALSTART 2008 Blue Sky(TM) Award for innovation and advancement in sustainable transportation technology. The annual award recognizes outstanding marketplace contributions to clean air, energy efficiency and the clean transportation industry overall.

10 Jun 2008

Green Building Continues to Gain Momentum

Green building continues to gain momentum as it demonstrates numerous opportunities to improve the impacts of buildings on the environment and health. To acknowledge this growing trend and EPA's expanded role in it, EPA has released a new video on green buildings in its Green Scene series.

10 Jun 2008

AMSC Receives Order for Electrical Components for Wind Turbines

American Superconductor Corporation, a leading energy technologies company, today announced that it has received a $450 million order from Beijing-based Sinovel Wind Corporation Limited for core electrical components for 1.5 megawatt (MW) wind turbines.

10 Jun 2008

Suntech Power Introduces BIPV Products to the European Market

Suntech Power Holdings Co., Ltd., one of the world's leading manufacturers of photovoltaic (PV) cells and modules, today announced it will introduce its Just Roof(TM), Light Thru(TM) and QuikSnap building integrated PV (BIPV) products from Suntech's MSK Solar Design Line(TM) to the European market at the upcoming Intersolar Technology Trade Fair 2008. Intersolar will be held from June 12-14, 2008 at The New Trade Fair Centre in Munich, Germany

10 Jun 2008

Effectively Managing Forests has Important Societal Implications

Remote-sensing techniques can make forests more productive, offsetting increased carbon-dioxide (CO2) concentrations in the atmosphere and oceans, Dr. Randolph Wynne, a NASA investigator and Virginia Tech professor of forest biometry and geomatics, recently told a group of forestry professionals and students at a seminar here.

10 Jun 2008

Perf Go Green Products Will be Available for Purchase on Amazon.com

Perf Go Green Holdings, Inc., a marketer and distributor of biodegradable plastics announced today that the company's first products - the 13 gallon kitchen trash bags and 30 gallon lawn and leaf bags - will be available for purchase on Amazon.com beginning in mid-June.

10 Jun 2008

New Technology Takes the Mystery Out of Battery Health

Argus Analyzers today introduced the Battery Bug(R) Deep Cycle Monitor (DCM), the only battery monitor that communicates both battery charge level and percent remaining battery life. Designed for 12-volt deep cycle batteries in boats, R/Vs, commercial trucks, emergency and off-road vehicles, the DCM series extends battery life and improves reliability by providing the user with accurate charge level and battery life information.

10 Jun 2008

Demonstration Fleet Examines the Future of PHEVs

Powered by lithium-ion batteries from Johnson Controls-Saft, the demonstration fleet will examine the future of PHEVs as part of a complete vehicle, home and grid energy system. The fleet is the result of an ongoing collaboration among Ford, Johnson Controls-Saft, Southern California Edison (SCE) and Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI).

10 Jun 2008

Cooperative Effort Urging Congress to Revisit Nation's Food-to-Fuel Policies

Today, the Food Before Fuel Campaign - a partnership of more than 20 environmental, retail, hunger, Hispanic and food industry groups - launched a cooperative effort urging Congress to revisit the nation's food-to-fuel policies, a key factor in the growing global food crisis.

10 Jun 2008

Amtech Systems Receives New Solar Orders

Amtech Systems, Inc., a global supplier of production and automation systems and related supplies for the manufacture of solar cells, semiconductors, and silicon wafers, today announced that its solar subsidiary, Tempress Systems, Inc., has received $8.5 million in new solar orders for its diffusion processing systems.

10 Jun 2008

Carbon Dioxide Captured by Marine Bacteria

Marine bacteria have the capacity to take up and capture carbon dioxide with the help of sunlight. This has been discovered by researchers at Kalmar University in Sweden in collaboration with colleagues in Spain, Australia, and Russia. The finding is being published in the internationally respected scientific journal PNAS.

10 Jun 2008

Collaboration Aims to Provide Foundation for New CO2 Storage Technologies

At a ceremony at Imperial College London, Qatar's Deputy Premier and Minister of Energy and Industry, His Excellency Abdullah Bin Hamad Al-Attiyah, Ms. Linda Cook, Executive Director of Royal Dutch Shell plc, Dr Tidu Maini, Executive Chairman of Qatar Science + Technology Park (QSTP), and Sir Roy Anderson, Rector Elect of Imperial College London launched a joint research collaboration that will focus on further understanding carbonate reservoirs, which constitute the vast majority of hydrocarbon reservoirs across the Middle East, and CO2 storage.

10 Jun 2008

VIASPACE Receives Order to Design and Produce Formic Acid Fuel Cell Cartridges

VIASPACE Inc., a company that transforms proven space and defense technologies from NASA and the Department of Defense into hardware and software solutions, announced today that its Direct Methanol Fuel Cell Corporation (DMFCC) subsidiary has received an order from Lynntech Inc. of College Station, TX to design and produce formic acid fuel cell cartridges.

10 Jun 2008

DuPont Expands Production of Solamet to Support Fast-Growing PV Market

To meet the needs of the fast-growing photovoltaic (PV) solar energy market, DuPont today announced that it will expand production of DuPont(TM) Solamet(R) thick film metallization pastes at its Electronic Materials DuPont Dongguan Ltd. (EMDD) facility here.

10 Jun 2008