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Innovative Binder More Eco-Efficient than all Other Compared Floorings

The new generation of cork floorings from Portuguese company Amorim manufactured with BASF's innovative binder Acrodur® are more eco-efficient than all other compared floorings. This was the result of an Eco-Efficiency Analysis carried out by BASF together with Amorim, the world's biggest producer of cork products.

24 Jan 2008

Ideal Green Solution for Emergency Stairwell Safety

Defense Holdings, Inc. (DHi) announced that the New York City Department of Buildings has formally granted a Materials and Equipment Acceptance (MEA) number to the company's breakthrough AfterGloTM High Performance Photoluminescent Green safety paint.

24 Jan 2008

Deloitte Releases Emerging Trends in Technology

Deloitte has released a study identifying 10 emerging trends in technology.

24 Jan 2008

New Laboratory to Test Hydrogen Pipelines

Efforts to create a “hydrogen economy” to reduce U.S. oil imports will get a boost from a new laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) that will evaluate tests, materials, mechanical properties and standards for hydrogen pipelines.

24 Jan 2008

College Students are Catching the Green Wave

Businesses and consumers have learned that sustainable development or "green technology" results in both environmental protection and economic growth. And with some help from EPA, college students around the country are also catching the "green wave." Fifty-eight university teams were awarded $580,000 in EPA grants to work on sustainable solutions for environmental problems.

24 Jan 2008

Fibre Products Opens Up New Opportunities

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has developed a method that opens up new opportunities for the use of lignin-containing wood fibres and other natural fibres as well as fibre products.

24 Jan 2008

Microporous Material Holds 30 Percent More Methane

Researchers in the laboratory of Miami University chemist Hong-Cai Zhou, associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry, report development of a microporous material with the highest methane storage capacity ever measured. It can hold almost one-third more methane than the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) target level for methane-powered cars, they report in a new study.

24 Jan 2008

ASU Receives Grants to Develop New Solar Energy Technologies

Two grants to ASU for development of new solar energy technologies show how ASU’s solar energy research has grown in new and important ways.

24 Jan 2008

Agreement with Invenergy Marks the Largest Commitments for Wind Turbines

Capping a year of record growth in 2007 for GE Energy's wind business, the company's agreement with Invenergy LLC of more than $1 billion marks one of the largest commitments for wind turbines to be delivered in a single year in the history of the global wind industry.

24 Jan 2008

Package to Fight Climate Change and Promote Renewable Energy

The European Commission has today agreed on a far-reaching package of proposals that will deliver the European Council's commitments to fight climate change and promote renewable energy. The proposals demonstrate that the targets agreed last year are technologically and economically possible and provide a unique business opportunity for thousands of European companies. These measures will dramatically increase the use of renewable energy in each country and set legally enforceable targets for governments to achieve them.

24 Jan 2008

Wal-Mart Addresses Climate Change

In a speech to more than 7,000 managers at the annual kick-off meeting for its U.S. stores, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. president and CEO Lee Scott today said the company would continue to demonstrate leadership and work for change on major issues important to Wal-Mart's customers, communities, associates and suppliers worldwide.

24 Jan 2008

A Week to Change Tomorrow

On 28 January the European Commission will launch the second EU Sustainable Energy Week (EUSEW 2008). It is the world's largest open forum on sustainable energy bringing together stakeholders on a local, regional, national and European level to debate strategies for a more sustainable future in terms of renewable energy sources, energy efficiency, clean transport and alternative fuels.

24 Jan 2008

Miles to Distribute Electric Vehicles in Europe

California based manufacturer Miles Electric Vehicles completed its first international distribution agreement in early January with AllGreenVehicles of the Netherlands, which will bring the MILES low speed, all electric vehicle line to the three Benelux countries of Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.

24 Jan 2008

Solar Firm Confident of Breaking World Efficiency Record in 2008

Low Carbon Accelerator Limited has announced that it has made a further investment of £320,000 in QuantaSol Limited following the achievement of certain milestones. This brings LCA's total equity ownership to 25.6%.

24 Jan 2008

Major Tool for Sustainable Market Development of the Renewable Energy Sector

The European Renewable Energy Council- representing the European renewable energy industry, trade and research associations- welcomes the directive proposal on renewable energy released today by the European Commission: The proposal will – when further improved during the legislative process- be a major tool for reaching the 20% target, for developing in a sustainable way the renewable energy sector, thereby enhancing our security of supply, reducing our greenhouse gas emissions and creating jobs in the European Union.

24 Jan 2008