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EcoLights’ New Range of Energy Efficient LED Lamps Look Identical to Traditional Bulbs

EcoLights is an innovative Swedish green technology company that is leading the way in environmentally friendly, energy efficient and cost- and maintenance-reducing, lighting solutions.

7 Apr 2014

RGS Energy Selected as Construction Contractor for CEC’s Community-Owned Solar Facilities in Massachusetts

The community solar developer, Clean Energy Collective (CEC), has selected RGS Energy (Nasdaq:RGSE) as the general contractor for the construction of the first community-owned solar facilities located in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

4 Apr 2014

Center Explore Ecosystem Consequences of Extreme Weather Events in the Amazon Basin

Three extreme weather events in the Amazon Basin in the last decade are giving scientists an opportunity to make observations that will allow them to predict the impacts of climate change and deforestation on some of the most important ecological processes and ecosystem services of the Amazon River wetlands.

4 Apr 2014

National Solar Schools Consortium Launched at National Science Teachers Association Conference

Nonprofit organizations and solar companies from across the nation today announced the launch of the National Solar Schools Consortium at the widely-attended National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) Conference, which began today in Boston.

4 Apr 2014

Liberty Property Trust Receives EPA ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year Sustained Excellence Award

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has honored Liberty Property Trust with an ENERGY STAR® Partner of the Year designation for the third consecutive year – and in doing so has also given it the organization’s highest honor: the Sustained Excellence Award. The Sustained Excellence Award highlights Liberty’s continued leadership in protecting the environment through superior energy efficiency.

4 Apr 2014

NPL Provides Accurate, Reliable Measurements of Pollutant Concentrations

As high levels of air pollution are reported across the UK, NPL's role is to make sure that the measurements of pollutant concentrations are as reliable as possible, so that the right warnings can be given and the most appropriate actions taken.

4 Apr 2014

SheerWind to Commission 250 kW INVELOX Wind Power Generation Pilot Project for DUBAL

SheerWind, Inc., is pleased to announce a pilot project to be commissioned at Dubai Aluminium PJSC ("DUBAL"), which operates one of the world's largest aluminum smelting facilities and has a power generating capacity of nearly 2400 MW.

4 Apr 2014

Results for Long Island's Second Clean Solar Initiative Announced

PSEG Long Island announced today the results for Long Island's second Clean Solar Initiative. The feed-in-tariff program builds upon Long Island Power Authority's first feed-in tariff for solar energy and is designed to bring an additional 100 megawatts (MW) of solar energy to Long Island.

4 Apr 2014

NASA Launches GlobalSelfie Earth Day Event to Encourage Environmental Awareness

For the first time in more than a decade, five NASA Earth-observing missions will be launched into space in a single year. To celebrate this milestone, NASA is inviting people all around the world to step outside on Earth Day, April 22, take a "selfie," and share it with the world on social media.

3 Apr 2014

Municipal Recycling Programs Encouraged to Promote 'Caps On Bottles'

The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR), representing over 90% of North America's post-consumer plastic recycling capacity, is encouraging municipal recycling programs to promote 'the Caps On Bottles' to take advantage of this recycling opportunity.

3 Apr 2014

NASA to Launch Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 for Study of Carbon Dioxide Worldwide

Simply by breathing, humans have played a small part in the planet-wide balancing act called the carbon cycle throughout our existence. However, in the last few hundred years, we have taken a larger role. Our activities, such as fossil fuel burning and deforestation, are pushing the cycle out of its natural balance, adding more and more carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.

3 Apr 2014

Verne Global-ODCA Proof of Concept Study Recognized with Environmental Leader Award

Verne Global, an innovative, UK-based developer of energy efficient data center campuses, today announced that the Proof of Concept (PoC) study they participated in with the Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA) has been recognized with an Environmental Leader Award for Top Project of the Year 2014.

3 Apr 2014

EDF Renewable Energy Places Firm Order with Vestas for 194 MW of Wind Turbine Generators

EDF Renewable Energy has placed a firm order with Vestas for 194 megawatts (MW) of V100-2.0 MW wind turbine generators. The order is part of the Master Supply Agreement (MSA) announced in September 2013.

3 Apr 2014

SweetPro to Raise Renewable Content of Plastic Holding Pans for Feed Blocks

SweetPro, a leading manufacturer and distributor of premium feed supplement blocks for livestock, announced today it is taking steps to go green with one of its core products. The company is looking to raise the renewable content of the plastic holding pans it sources for its 250-pound feed blocks with Laurel BioComposite’s Bio-Res PE, a USDA-certified biomaterial.

3 Apr 2014

Operations Begin at MHI Vestas Offshore Wind

Following the approval from all relevant authorities, MHI Vestas Offshore Wind has been formally established as of 1 April 2014, ref. company announcements Nos. 41/2013 of 27 September 2013 and 9/2014 of 28 February 2014.

2 Apr 2014