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Ohio Becomes 26th State to Adopt Renewable Energy Portfolio Standards

In a unanimous vote, the Ohio legislature has passed a new bill requiring 12.5% of Ohio's energy be generated from renewable sources like wind and solar. Ohio now becomes the 26th state, including California, New York and Texas, to adopt renewable energy portfolio standards (RPS) -- tough new laws which are creating one of the most dramatic shifts in the delivery of energy to American consumers ever.

29 Apr 2008

The First Real-Time Energy and Operational Efficiency Solution for Data Centers

SynapSense(TM) Corporation, a leading provider of wireless instrumentation solutions, today introduced SynapSoft(TM) 4.0 featuring LiveImaging(TM) that provides the world's first real-time images of data center conditions for optimizing cooling, power and operational efficiencies.

29 Apr 2008

Cornell to Feature INSTEON Home Automation Solution in 2009 Solar Decathlon

SmartLabs, Inc. announces that Cornell University has chosen INSTEON® home automation technology as an integral piece of their home build in the 2009 Solar Decathlon at the National Mall in Washington, DC, fall of 2009.

29 Apr 2008

Company's Environmental Research Efforts Deepen with New Power Aware Program

As part of its Sustainable Computing Program, Microsoft Corp. today announced it will support four academic research projects focused on energy efficiency in computing in the areas of datacenter power efficiency, power management and the creation of parallel computing architecture with decreased power demands.

28 Apr 2008

Pulstar Pulse Plugs Add Fuel Economy to hybrid vehicles.

Recent tests performed at Enerpulse, Inc. demonstrate that its newly released product, Pulstar(TM) improved fuel economy on 2005 and 2007 Toyota Prius hybrid vehicles by 6% - 8%, or approximately 3 miles per gallon.

28 Apr 2008

In America, Even the Smallest Footprints are Large

Whether you live in a cardboard box or a luxurious mansion, whether you subsist on homegrown vegetables or wolf down imported steaks, whether you're a jet-setter or a sedentary retiree, anyone who lives in the U.S. contributes more than twice as much greenhouse gas to the atmosphere as those living in the rest of the world.

28 Apr 2008

Weather Forecasts and Predictions of Carbon Cycle and Climate

MIT Professor Dara Entekhabi will lead the science team designing a NASA satellite mission to make global soil moisture and freeze/thaw measurements, data essential to the accuracy of weather forecasts and predictions of global carbon cycle and climate.

28 Apr 2008

Antarctica's Potential Responses to Future Climate Changes

Recent additions to the premier collection of Southern Ocean sediment cores at Florida State University's Antarctic Marine Geology Research Facility will give international scientists a close-up look at fluctuations that occurred in Antarctica's ice sheet and marine and terrestrial life as the climate cooled considerably between 20 and 14 million years ago.

28 Apr 2008

Packaging Waste Makes Up About Half Our Total Waste by Volume

In America, and in most developed countries of the world, we buy and discard lots and lots of packaging. In the United States 10 percent - one of every 10 dollars we spend on purchases - goes toward the packaging that contains the things we buy.

28 Apr 2008

Partnership Provides BioGold with Thermal Distillation and Gasification Technologies

BioGold Fuels Corporation announces the entry into a licensing and strategic partnership agreement with Energy Dynamics Corporation International (EDC).

28 Apr 2008

Thermal Insulation in the Residential and Commercial Construction Markets

Total North American demand for residential and commercial thermal insulation is estimated to be 374 billion square feet at R-1 (abbreviated SFR) and valued at $7.4 billion in 2007, according to Principia Partners.

28 Apr 2008

New Showroom Features State-of-the-Art Sustainable lighting Technologies

Energy Focus, Inc., the global leader in energy-efficient advanced lighting solutions, will hold the Grand Opening Celebration for the company's new Solon, Ohio, showroom on Friday, May 2, 2008.

28 Apr 2008

Sustainability - The Watchword for Industry

Sustainability was on the minds of many of today’s speakers at the World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology and Bioprocessing, an annual conference attracting more than 1200 scientists, business leaders, and government officials that began in full today in Chicago.

28 Apr 2008

Kyocera Leads San Diego Business Community in Environmental Achievement

Kyocera Wireless Corp. (KWC), a leading global manufacturer of wireless handsets and devices, announced that it has again earned its eighth consecutive recycling award from the City of San Diego's Environmental Services Department (ESD).

28 Apr 2008