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B.C. Create Institute for Climate Research

The B.C. Province will seek legislative approval for $94.5 million to create the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions, which will bring together top scientists, researchers, governments and the private sector to develop innovative climate change adaptation and mitigation solutions, Premier Gordon Campbell announced today.

26 Jan 2008

DTE Signs Agreement to Supply Wind Energy for Renewable Energy Program

DTE Energy has signed an agreement with Cadillac-based Wolverine Power Supply Cooperative, Inc. to provide wind energy supply for the company's GreenCurrents renewable energy program.

26 Jan 2008

RECs Brokered by MotivEarth Now Eligible to be Green-e Certified

The Center for Resource Solutions announced today that renewable energy certificates (RECs) brokered by MotivEarth, LLC are now eligible to be Green-e certified.

26 Jan 2008

Researchers Working to Improve Performance of Heat Exchangers

Air-source heat pumps typically deliver 1 1/2 to three times more heating energy to a home than the electric energy they consume. This is possible because heat pumps move heat rather than convert it from a fuel.

26 Jan 2008

Huge Impact on Human Health Due to Climate Change

Climate change will have a huge impact on human health and bold environmental policy decisions are needed now to protect the world’s population, according to the author of an article published in the BMJ today.

26 Jan 2008

Inaugural Program with Special Focus on Clean Tech

Nanotech-enabled energy technologies, printable electronics and nanobiotechnology are just three of the many panel topics to be presented at the IBF's 2008 Nano Applications and Advanced Materials Forum that will take place February 5-6 at the Renaissance Esmeralda Resort & Spa at Indian Wells, California.

26 Jan 2008

Reports Examines Renewable Energy Certificates

"Renewable Energy Certificates in North America," a new report published by Energy Business Reports, examines Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs) or Green Tags, which are a market-based commodity designed to facilitate transactions between buyers and sellers of renewable energy, free from the constraints of the electricity grid.

26 Jan 2008

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