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Asia's Most Important Freshwater Source Under Threat

The Tibetan Plateau's vast reserves of glacial freshwater, which supply Asia's most populous regions, are both at risk and are emerging as an issue in the increasingly tense political and cultural strife between China and Tibet, scientists and experts say, according to a new report by Circle of Blue published today.

8 May 2008

CES Selected to Supply CO2 to a Large-Scale Carbon Capture and Storage Project

Clean Energy Systems' (CES) zero emissions power plant technology has been selected to supply carbon dioxide to a large-scale carbon capture and storage project under the leadership of the West Coast Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership (WESTCARB).

8 May 2008

Technology Expected to Alter Gasoline Dependence and Greatly Reduce CO2 Emissions

The revolutionary EFuel100 MicroFueler(TM) is the first product that allows anyone to reduce their dependency on oil, greatly diminish their carbon footprint and produce fuel for under $1.00 per gallon.

8 May 2008

Minimizing the Carbon Footprint of the Trucking Industry

Schneider National, Inc., a premier provider of transportation, intermodal and logistics services and the nation's largest truckload carrier, announced today its plans to operate the most energy-efficient fleet in the industry.

8 May 2008

Company Created an Eco-Friendly Water Vending Machine

Many schools in the US and Canada are boycotting bottled water in hopes of making a point about green living. To them, there's no reason to sacrifice the Earth's health for something that can be acquired through a faucet.

8 May 2008

Company Opens First LEED Certified Building

Chevron Corp. today announced the opening of the company's first LEED certified building and the first gold certified LEED building in the state of Louisiana. LEED is an acronym for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, a certification program of the United States Green Building Council.

8 May 2008

Developing High-Efficiency Solar Cells with High Power Conversion Efficiency

Magnolia Optical Technologies, Inc. announced today that it is part of the Kopin Corporation team that has been selected for the award of a solar cell development contract from NASA. The Phase II STTR program will develop indium nitride (InN)-based quantum dot solar cell technology.

8 May 2008

Aluminium - Part of the Solution in Solving Global Climate Challenges

Aluminium is saving CO2 in many ways. To explain how, Hydro is participating at the current Carbon Expo. The fair and conference in Cologne, Germany, is a global meeting point for companies operating on the CO2 market.

8 May 2008

The Very Cutting Edge of Renewable Energy

For a project that could be on the very cutting edge of renewable energy, this one is actually decidedly low tech--and that's the point.

8 May 2008

Siemens Energy Awarded Largest Wind Turbine Orders

Siemens Energy has been awarded one of its largest wind turbine orders ever. FPL Energy has ordered 218 Siemens wind turbines to be installed at several wind farms across the U.S. for delivery in 2009. The Florida-based energy provider is the largest operator of wind farms in the United States with 56 projects in 16 states currently in operation.

8 May 2008

Energy Focus to Present at Conference in New York

Energy Focus, Inc., the global leader in energy-efficient advanced lighting solutions, today announced that CEO Joseph Kaveski and President John Davenport will present an overview of the company and its businesses at the Merriman Curhan and Ford CleanTech Conference, May 13, 2008, at 4PM at Le Parker Meridien Hotel in New York.

8 May 2008

VIASPACE Enters Distribution Agreement for its State of the Art Battery Electrode Health Analyzer

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 it has entered into a distribution agreement for its state of the art BA-1000 Battery Electrode Health Analyzer product with WonATech Corporation of Seoul, Korea.

8 May 2008

Three-Story Home Built on Museum's Property is 'Chicago's Greenest Home'

Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry has created a functioning, three-story modular and sustainable "green" home in its own backyard to showcase the ways that people can make eco-friendly living a part of their lives.

8 May 2008

95 Percent of American Mothers Believe Household Cleaning Products can be Toxic

Home may be where the heart is, but these days it's also where the toxins are. According to The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the average American home generates over 20 pounds of household hazardous waste every year. Cumulatively it's a whopping 1.6 million tons -- that's 3.2 billion pounds -- of household hazardous waste per year, of which 176,000 tons is just from cleaning products.

8 May 2008

Auto Manufacturers Aim to Develop Smaller Engines that Produce Better Fuel Efficiency

The Technical Insights Group at Frost + Sullivan is pleased to announce its 2008 Quarterly Analyst Briefing Presentation on the engine downsizing market to be held on Thursday, May 15, 2008 at 8:00 am PDT.

8 May 2008