WELtec & E.ON Start Construction on Biogas Plant
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008 Posted in Green News | Comments OffConstruction of the one world's largest plants for feeding biogas into the natural gas grid has officially started. WELtec BioPower GmbH had obtained the building permit at the end of May and has now announced that construction began in late ...
NP Capital Purchases Solar Energy Inc.
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008 Posted in Green News | Comments OffNP Capital Corp announced that it has purchased various assets including the website SolarEnergy.com and the name of Solar Energy Inc. The website currently receives more than 100,000 web hits per month from people seeking information about products or how ...
Hawaiian Coal-Fired Plant Being Converted to Burn Biomass
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008 Posted in Green News | Comments OffU.S. Senator Daniel Akaka and U.S. Representatives Neil Abercrombie and Mazie Hirono helped launch Hawaii's newest renewable energy project at a Hawaiian blessing ceremomy for the Hu Honua Bioenergy Facility in the community of Pepeekeo, on the Big Island's Hamakua ...
Mitsubishi To Build PV Cell Plant in Japan
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008 Posted in Green News | Comments OffMitsubishi Electric Corporation announced its plans to construct a new facility for solar photovoltaic (PV) cell production at its Nakatsugawa Works Iida Factory in Nagano Prefecture. The company said that it is expanding its annual production capacity of PV cells ...
Suntech Reaches Polysilicon & Wafer Agreements with GCL Silicon
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008 Posted in Green News | Comments OffSuntech Power Holdings Co. Ltd. announced that it has signed new supply agreements with GCL Silicon Technology Holdings Inc. Under the terms of the supply agreements, GCL Silicon will supply Suntech with 9,420 metric tons of polysilicon and 1.1 gigawatts ...
Vestas Commends Colorado at DNC in Denver
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008 Posted in Green News | Comments OffThis week, political leaders from Colorado joined representatives from Vestas at a press conference held at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Denver, Colorado. Against the backdrop of a 131-foot wind turbine blade produced at Vestas' factory in Windsor, Colorado, ...
Congress “Localisation on Environmental Business and Supply Base in India”. Dr Rajendra Pachauri is the Patron
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008 Posted in Green News | Comments OffA joint special event during the Delhi Sustainable Development Summit 2009 (DSDS 2009)
Plug In and Drive
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Transportation | Comments OffShai Agassi says his electric cars can save the world. People are listening. There’s a lot to chew over in Wired’s profile of Shai Agassi, the entrepreneur engaged in an audacious experiment to electrify an entire nation’s ...
Nanosolar raises $300 million for thin-film solar
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Green Building Standards Under Construction
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008 Posted in Green Building, Green News | Comments OffThe world's leading certification system for sustainable architecture is set to undergo its most sweeping changes in 2009. The proposed revisions encourage designs that would reduce a building's impact on global climate change. Leadership in ...
Seeing Climate Change Through the Trees
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008 Posted in Features, Green News | Comments OffYou've probably never heard of the whitebark pine, much less the tiny mountain pine beetle, but the story they tell together may be one of the clearest windows we have on how climate change is already ...
Tantalum Memorial – Residue
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008 Posted in Columns, Green News | Comments OffJust back from Manifesta. The seventh edition of this touring art biennale is held in Trentino-South Tyrol, in N-E Italy. The food over there is definitely Italian but with a crispy teutonic twist, so are the ...
Compressed-air storage coming to wind power
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Green Building Standards Under Construction
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008 Posted in Green News | Comments OffThe world's leading certification system for sustainable architecture is set to undergo its most sweeping changes in 2009. The proposed revisions encourage designs that would reduce a building's impact on global climate change.
Return of the Plains Grizzly
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008 Posted in Biodiversity and Ecosystems, Green News | Comments OffBy WorldChanging Canada writer Rod Edwards. The Grizzly bear's Latin name captures its place in popular culture: fierce symbol of untamed wilderness, Ursus arctos horribilis. Among carnivorous North American land mammals, the grizzly is second in ...
Video: Hydrogen Road Tour revs its engines
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Obama ups clean-tech cred at convention
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A hard look at hardwood consumption
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008 Posted in Green News | Comments OffMany people enjoy using tropical hardwoods as garden furniture and parquet floors, but few consumers make the link with global warming. But the link is there, because some products are made from timber from areas like the Amazon and Southeast Asia ...
Proximity: A Very Green Hotel In North Carolina
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008 Posted in Green News | Comments OffThe Proximity Hotel is proof that a hotel can be very green without sacrificing the comfort of its guests. The hotel is located in Greensboro, North Carolina, and it achieved a Gold LEED certification this year from the U.S. Green ...
Apollo Solar Awarded $4.1M Contract to Develop Innovative Energy System
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008 Posted in Green News | Comments OffBethel, CT -- Apollo Solar, which specializes in the design and manufacture of power electronics for solar energy systems, has been contracted by the U.S. Department of Energy to provide development of less expensive, more efficient technologies to enhance the ...