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Analysis of Environmentally-Sustainable Construction and its Economic Impact

Everyone's talking about "going green" but the cost of the investment has, up to now, been difficult to justify. Energy savings aside, what are the financial benefits of using environmentally sustainable materials and technology in construction? Professor John Quigley at the University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business is conducting the first systematic analysis of environmentally-sustainable construction and its economic impact on the real estate market.

5 Jun 2008

Project Urges All to Wash Green

Seventh Generation, the country's leading brand of environmentally safe household and personal care products, has launched a special effort to celebrate and educate on World Environment Day 2008. The company's new Get Out of Hot Water program asks a dirty nation to come clean and get 'green' in the laundry room by taking a pledge to switch to cold water washing - and get a free book on healthy non-toxic cleaning in the process.

5 Jun 2008

The Environmental Impact Caused by Landfills

Scientists of the University of Granada (Spain) have designed a novel and versatile environmental diagnostic method of landfills which is able to adapt to different places of the world and contributes to quantify the environmental impact.

5 Jun 2008

Five Different Types of Waters with Various Health and Environmental Benefits

A water ionization and filtration system designed for home and office use provides unlimited quantities of healthy, eco-friendly bottle free waters for drinking, cooking, beauty (skin/hair), cleaning and sanitizing at pennies per gallon.

5 Jun 2008

Boeing Shanghai Challenge Gives Colleges a Chance to Change the Future

Boeing, Boeing Shanghai Aviation Services, Tsinghua University, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are hosting a competition for college students from select universities in the United States and China to create more environmentally progressive ways of operating an aviation maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) facility.

5 Jun 2008

3M Launches Nomad Recycling Program

3M Hong Kong has been actively participating in various green programs. To step up its efforts in protecting the Earth, the "3M(TM) Nomad(TM) Recycling Program" is launched to encourage people to preserve natural resources by reusing and recycling used materials.

5 Jun 2008

Creating Energy Efficient and Eco-Friendly Homes

Baltimore, Md.-based Haven Custom Homes, in conjunction with Old Man Construction of Charleston, S.C., and Cobalt LLC, has completed its first five EarthCraft House(TM)- and ENERGY STAR-certified custom homes, furthering its continuing commitment to creating energy efficient, eco-friendly homes.

5 Jun 2008

New Data Highlights Dramatic Decreases in Home Appliance Energy Consumption

The Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers (AHAM) has released new data based on 2007 shipments of major appliances, highlighting dramatic decreases in home appliance energy consumption since 2000.

5 Jun 2008

ICM to Design and Construct BioGold's Waste to Energy Facility

BioGold Fuels Corporation announced that it has entered into a letter of intent for a strategic alliance with ICM, Inc. to engineer, design, and build BioGold's municipal solid waste to energy plants. ICM will design, engineer, and construct BioGold's next planned waste to energy facility.

5 Jun 2008

Calling on People to Kick the CO2 Habit

Over 50s are 'hopeful, motivated and positive' about tackling climate change as World Environment Day calls on people to Kick the CO2 habit.

5 Jun 2008

How Smart Grid Technology May Bring A Cleaner Environment

A new public-private collaboration is exploring how smart grid technology may bring the people of Illinois more reliable electric service and a cleaner environment, while holding down costs of electric services. The Illinois Smart Grid Initiative -- which held its first meeting yesterday -- is funded by Illinois native Bob Galvin's Galvin Electricity Initiative and led by the Center for Neighborhood Technology.

5 Jun 2008

Newly Discovered Iron-Based Superconductors for Energy Generation

Johns Hopkins University researchers and colleagues in China have unlocked some of the secrets of newly discovered iron-based high-temperature superconductors, research that could result in the design of better superconductors for use in industry, medicine, transportation and energy generation.

4 Jun 2008

WSN Allows for Clandestine Data Collection of Environmental Factors in Remote Locations

The departments of computing science and earth and atmospheric science have been working together to create a Wireless Sensor Network that allows for the clandestine data collection of environmental factors in remote locations and its monitoring from anywhere in the world where the Internet is available.

4 Jun 2008

Thermal Endurance Experiments Validate Key Benefit of Cryogenic Pressure Vessels

A cryogenic pressure vessel developed and installed in an experimental hybrid vehicle by a Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory research team can hold liquid hydrogen for six days without venting any of the fuel.

4 Jun 2008

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