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Santa Clara Ranks As the Second Largest Green Power Community

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has named the City of Santa Clara a Green Power Community, making the City only one of 14 communities to receive such an honor.

29 Apr 2008

Solar Center to Produce Enough Electricity to Power at Least 800 Homes

Department of Environmental Protection Secretary Kathleen A. McGinty today hailed an announcement by the city of Philadelphia that a vacant, seven-acre brownfield at the Navy Yard will soon help to meet Pennsylvania's energy needs with clean, renewable solar technology.

29 Apr 2008

SAS for Sustainability Management Makes Being Green Easier

Today's announcement of SAS for Sustainability Management introduces the first decision-support software platform for proactively identifying innovative strategies that effectively address complex environmental, social, and economic situations while achieving stakeholder objectives.

29 Apr 2008

Award to Recognize Effort to Help Families Use Solar Energy to Reduce Utility Bills

Maryland Senator Robert Garagiola and Delegate Sue Hecht each received the prestigious Government Leadership Award today for their prominent roles in passing the Maryland renewable portfolio standard into law to mandate the increased use of solar energy.

29 Apr 2008

Global Climate Change Will Require Changes to Business Models in the Years Ahead

CME Group, the world's largest and most diverse derivatives exchange, and Storm Exchange, Inc., a leading weather risk management originator, announced today the results of a benchmark study which revealed that 82 percent of senior finance and risk managers believe global climate change will require changes to their business models in the years ahead.

29 Apr 2008

Enova Hybrid Drive Systems Significantly Reduce Emissions

Recent dynamometer test results conclude that IC Bus school buses using post-transmission hybrid drive systems from Enova Systems can improve fuel efficiency by more than 70 percent compared to standard diesel-powered school buses.

29 Apr 2008

Solar Tower to Help Evaluate New Technology for Future Space Shuttle Missions

NASA has once again turned to Sandia's National Solar Thermal Test Facility - aka the Solar Tower - to help evaluate new technology for future space shuttle missions. NASA's most recent testing series in early March evaluated the HYpersonic AeroTHermodynamic InfraRed Measurements (HYTHIRM) systems.

29 Apr 2008

ICSC Adopts BREEAM as Pan-European Sustainability Standard of Choice

The International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) has adopted BREEAM as their pan-European sustainability standard of choice, ahead of other international environmental assessment methodologies.

29 Apr 2008

Solarize the U.S. Landscape

DOE photovoltaic funding for years has gone to programs that promise more efficient conversion of sunlight to electricity, or in aiding solar start-up companies. It's called "technology push."

29 Apr 2008

Connections Between Atmospheric CO2 and the Breakdown of Minerals in Earth’s Crust

Over millions of years carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere have been moderated by a finely-tuned natural feedback system- a system that human emissions have recently overwhelmed.

29 Apr 2008

Providing Emission Control Components to Local Chinese Vehicle Manufacturers

Equicap, Inc. has announced that its wholly owned subsidiary Usunco Automotive has started to provide advanced Diesel Oxidation Catalyst (DOC) technology to Chinese tier-one automobile and off-road vehicle manufacturers.

29 Apr 2008

Babcock Power Signs Agreement to Pursue Development and Commercialization of TIPS Technology

Babcock Power Inc. of Danvers, Massachusetts and ThermoEnergy Corporation, announce the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding as a prelude to the formation of a joint effort to commercialize the Company’s zero air emission power plant design called ThermoEnergy Integrated Power System.

29 Apr 2008

Clean Diesel’s Purifier System Reduces Diesel Particulate Matter by 76 Percent

Clean Diesel Technologies, Inc., the cleantech emissions reduction company, and Skanska, one of the world's leading construction groups, today announced the successful deployment of Clean Diesel's Purifier System based on its patented catalyzed wire mesh filter (CWMF) technology on Skanska cranes being used for the construction of a new water filtration facility in Croton, NY, a source of drinking water for Manhattan and the Bronx.

29 Apr 2008

A Step Closer to Turning Plants into Biofactories

Australian researchers are a step closer to turning plants into 'biofactories' capable of producing oils which can be used to replace petrochemicals used to manufacture a range of products.

29 Apr 2008

World's Best Protection from Moisture and Oxygen

A breakthrough barrier technology from Singapore A*STAR's Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE) protects sensitive devices like organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) and solar cells from moisture 1000 times more effectively than any other technology available in the market, opening up new opportunities for the up-and-coming plastic electronics sector.

29 Apr 2008