Cleantech News

RSS

The First Ever Carbon Neutral Event

Wipro Technologies, the global IT services division of Wipro Limited hosted the first ever Carbon Neutral event by an Indian IT company at Florida recently. Wipro as a responsible and an ecologically conscious organization made Mandala 2008, an annual customer forum event, completely carbon neutral.

4 Jun 2008

Green Earth's Automotive Appearance Products Are Now Available

Green Earth Technologies' line of bio-based, "ultimate biodegradable," superior performing automotive appearance products are now on store shelves at Target, along with over a dozen other regional retailers nationwide.

4 Jun 2008

New Facility Will Produce Rentech's Ultra-Clean Synthetic Transportation Fuels

Rentech, Inc. today announced that it has completed the purchase of approximately 450 acres in Adams County, Mississippi near the city of Natchez. Rentech intends to build its Rentech Strategic Fuels and Chemicals Center at the site.

4 Jun 2008

Hilton Hotels Corp Announces Goals and Objectives Towards Building Sustainability

Hilton Hotels Corporation announced today short and long term goals and objectives towards building sustainability into the core fabric of its businesses worldwide. Christopher J. Nassetta, President + CEO, outlined directional targets for improvement in the company's sustainability performance throughout the next five years within systemwide hotels globally.

4 Jun 2008

PureWater System Confirms Potential Use in Villages Throughout the Third World

Homeland Security Network, Inc., doing business as Global Ecology Corporation (GEC), today announced that it has successfully completed testing its PureWater System(TM) prototype, which uses GEC’s proprietary copper sulfate acid formula to purify water.

4 Jun 2008

245 Megawatt Project is Nation’s First for New Solar Tower Technology

Southern California Edison (SCE) today signed a contract to procure an additional 245 megawatts of solar power for its customers with Pasadena, Calif.-based eSolar in the nation's first commercial effort using power tower solar thermal technology.

4 Jun 2008

A Major Benefit to Our Planet and its People

Professor Shuji Nakamura, Director UC Santa Barbara's Solid-State Lighting and Energy Center, has been named a recipient of the 2008 Prince of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research.

4 Jun 2008

Generating Electricity at Twice the Efficiency

HP and Xtreme Energetics (XE), a solar energy system developer based in Livermore, Calif., today announced they have entered into an agreement for the development of a solar energy system designed to generate electricity at twice the efficiency and half the cost of traditional solar panels.

4 Jun 2008

Air NZ at Forefront of Testing Environmentally Sustainable Fuels for Use in Aviation

Air New Zealand announced today it expects to use at least one million barrels of environmentally sustainable fuel annually by 2013.

4 Jun 2008

Production and Efficiency Developments in Solar Cell Manufacturing from Evergreen Solar

Reuters is reporting on production and efficiency developments in solar cell manufacturing from Evergreen Solar.

4 Jun 2008

Smart Green Home Designers Earn LEED Gold Certification for Two Luxury Homes

Solaris Home Systems, a provider of green home automation and remodeling services, is pleased to announce their most recent achievement - dual LEED Gold certifications from the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) for their Lucia and Aura model homes.

4 Jun 2008

Online Gateway to the Most Energy-Efficient and Environmentally-Friendly Buildings

The California Department of General Services today announced it has developed the nation's first statewide online database of "green" buildings that employs Geographic Information Systems mapping technology.

4 Jun 2008

New Study Names Seventh Generation A Top Ten Green Brand Overall

According to a report presented yesterday at the Sustainable Brands '08 Conference in Monterey, California, American consumers have named Seventh Generation the "greenest" household cleaning brand and the number six "greenest" brand across all categories.

4 Jun 2008

The Compute Appliance Company Is Now Delivering a Carbon Neutral Business

Carbonfund.org, one of the country's leading carbon offset organizations, announced today a new partnership with Azul Systems, the award-winning innovator behind server appliances that deliver compute and memory resources as shared network service.

4 Jun 2008

Spire Corporation to Provide Turnkey Photovoltaic Module Assembly Line in India

Spire Corporation, a global solar company providing turnkey solar factories and capital equipment to manufacture photovoltaic cells and modules worldwide, today announced that it has received a contract from PLG Power Limited (PLG Group) to provide a state-of-the-art, turnkey photovoltaic module assembly line in India.

4 Jun 2008