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Organization Forms Public Policy Arm to Sustain Investment in Clean Technologies

News - 23 Apr 2008

The California Clean Energy Fund (CalCEF) today announced the launch of the Center for Innovation and Sustainability, a new public policy arm created to address critical issues affecting the long-term...

New Consumer-Friendly Online Calculator Reduces Food's Carbon Footprint

News - 22 Apr 2008

With food responsible for 1/3 of global greenhouse gas emissions, food service maverick Bon Appetit Management Company has introduced the Low Carbon Diet Calculator, an easy web-based calculator to...

Water Solutions for Petroleum, Petrochemical, Municipal and Agricultural Sectors

News - 21 Apr 2008

ConocoPhillips, and GE Water + Process Technologies, a unit of General Electric Company, today announced that GE has become an equal co-venturer in ConocoPhillips' Water Sustainability Center...

Unintended Environmental and Social Consequences of Food-to-Fuel Mandates

News - 17 Apr 2008

Today, three top environmental experts addressed reporters, calling attention to the serious consequences of Congressional food-to-fuel mandates on the environment, world hunger, and American...

Least Water-Efficient Energy Sources are Ethanol and Biodiesel

News - 17 Apr 2008

It is easy to overlook that most of the energy we consume daily, such as electricity or natural gas, is produced with the help of a dwindling resource - fresh water. Virginia Tech professor Tamim...

Syngenta to Build Center Focusing on Biofuel Research

News - 17 Apr 2008

Syngenta today announced that it will build a new biotech research + technology center in Beijing, China. Its focus will be on early-stage evaluation of GM and native traits for key crops such as corn...

Study Concludes ARP Technology Reduces Carbon Footprint

News - 15 Apr 2008

ThermoEnergy Corporation today announced the release of an engineering study by Parsons-Brinckerhoff, one of the world's leading planning, engineering, and construction management organizations,...

2008 Goldman Environmental Prize Recipients are a Group of Fearless Grassroots Leaders

News - 14 Apr 2008

The 2008 Goldman Environmental Prize recipients are a group of fearless grassroots leaders taking on government and corporate interests and working to improve the environment and living conditions for...

Biochar Enhances the Natural Carbon Seizing Ability of Soil

News - 10 Apr 2008

Fifteen hundred years ago, tribes people from the central Amazon basin mixed their soil with charcoal derived from animal bone and tree bark. Today, at the site of this charcoal deposit, scientists...

Fifth Avenue Place Will Open Temporary Environmental Store Called reSOLUTION

News - 8 Apr 2008

The first retail innovation of its kind in Pittsburgh, Fifth Avenue Place will open a temporary environmental store, named reSOLUTION, for the week of Earth Day, starting Tuesday, April 22. To...