Clean Development Mechanism in Flux
Monday, December 22nd, 2008 Posted in Climate Change, Green News | Comments OffAbout 14 percent of CDM projects worldwide are wind energy projects. Almost 40 percent are located in China, pictured above. Emissions-reducing projects continued their steady rise across the developing world this ...
‘60 Minutes’ video: Schwarzenegger’s green challenge
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Food, Fuel and Fiber? The Challenge of Using the Earth to Grow Energy
Monday, December 22nd, 2008 Posted in Columns, Green News | Comments OffIn May of 2008, while visiting Jakarta, I came across a newspaper story about a protest there. Hundreds of people had gathered in front of the gates of a charitable NGO whose mission was to ...
Finding Hope, Even in the Hardest Stories
Monday, December 22nd, 2008 Posted in Green News, Media | Comments OffSome of the most insightful and moving writing about Africa comes from correspondents just as they’re leaving the continent. Africa correspondents are generally absurdly overworked. Your “beat” is a continent that’s larger than the US, China ...
Can you ’superinsulate’ that home, please?
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Fronius International GmbH receives the Prestigious Frost & Sullivan “Best Practices Award 2008″
Sunday, December 21st, 2008 Posted in Green News | Comments OffFronius International GmbH has been awarded the Frost & Sullivan "2008 Best Practices Award" for its development of the innovative and high performance Fronius IG Plus PV inverter series as well as for its outstanding service. With the development of ...
India Goes Green
Sunday, December 21st, 2008 Posted in Green News | Comments OffThe GTZ (German Technical Cooperation - the federally owned Enterprise) suppoted the Congress in India by becoming a Knowledge Partner. EuroAkadem - Academy for European Management, Germany - Initiator and Official Organiser of the Congress Who should attend: The representatives of business ...
POET plant begins $2 million expansion project
Sunday, December 21st, 2008 Posted in Green News | Comments OffPOET Biorefining – Laddonia, Mo. is undergoing a $2 million expansion that will increase the plant's capacity and provide a larger market for locally produced corn.
Geothermic Energy Could Power All Nations
Sunday, December 21st, 2008 Posted in Green News | Comments OffA new renewable energy technology by SIREX can truly revolutionize the way energy is produced around the world for a fraction of the cost of what we all pay for electricity now. There are zero emissions, zero heat loss ...
Green Collar Jobs & Careers: Today’s Challenges, Tomorrow’s Opportunities
Sunday, December 21st, 2008 Posted in Green News | Comments OffAt the recently held 2008 Phase II of Renewable Energy in America National Policy Forum, hundreds of renewable energy executives, financial experts and policy makers gathered on Capitol Hill to discuss the state of renewable energy today.
First REpower 6-MW Turbines Assembled
Sunday, December 21st, 2008 Posted in Green News | Comments OffREpower Systems AG has completed the assembly of the first three REpower 6M turbines in Bremerhaven. The wind turbines, which each have a rated output of 6 megawatts (MW), are expected to be erected at the Westre civic wind farm ...
Japanese Power Plant Delivers 2 MW from Biomass Gasification
Sunday, December 21st, 2008 Posted in Green News | Comments OffA Japanese power plant is using biomass updraft gasification technology to deliver 2 megawatts (MW) of CHP capacity. Located 400 kilometers north of Tokyo, the plant uses technology licensed from Denmark-based Babcock & Wilcox Volund A/S, a subsidiary of Babcock ...
Suntech To Supply 3 MW of Solar to World Expo Shanghai 2010
Sunday, December 21st, 2008 Posted in Green News | Comments OffSuntech Power Holdings Co. Ltd. announced that it has won a bid to supply, design and install building integrated photovoltaic systems (BIPV) with a total capacity of 3 megawatts (MW) on the China and Theme Pavilions at the World Expo ...
Concentrix Opens Production Line for CPV
Sunday, December 21st, 2008 Posted in Green News | Comments OffConcentrating PV company Concentrix Solar has inaugurated industrial production of its Flatcon concentrator PV module technology at its site in Freiburg. The new fully automated production line has a manufacturing capacity of 25 megawatts (MW) annually.
Yingli Signs 35-MW in Module Deals
Sunday, December 21st, 2008 Posted in Green News | Comments OffYingli Green Energy Holding Company Limited announced that it has entered into sales agreements with German PV system integrators, City Solar Kraftwerke AG and Wirsol Deutschland GmbH.
Bosch Invests €530M in ersol
Sunday, December 21st, 2008 Posted in Green News | Comments OffThe Bosch Group has revealed plans to invest some €530 million [US $741.67 million] through to 2012 in expanding solar module production through its majority held subsidiary arm ersol Solar Energy AG. Construction is scheduled to start this month on ...
Choose step three (3) of a two (2) step process.
Saturday, December 20th, 2008 Posted in Green News | Comments OffBesides energy conservation (EC), step one would be energy efficiency (EE) and step two would be renewable energy (RE). Enjoy the benefits along with the internal rate of return (IRR). For instance, the IRR for an energy efficient light could ...
Rolex Award Honors Sustainable Building Solution in Paraguay
Friday, December 19th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Shelter | Comments OffSocial innovator and entrepreneur Elsa Zaldívar has developed a new product for home construction in Paraguay. The material, produced as panels that can be used as a substitute for wood, is lightweight but sturdy, and relatively ...
State Agency Calls for Ideas to “Climate-Proof” the Bay Area
Friday, December 19th, 2008 Posted in Climate Change, Green News | Comments OffClimate change is happening, and we now need innovative solutions for how to deal with its increasingly disastrous effects. One example of a way to help spur creative answers to climate change comes to us from ...
Design Roundup: Designing Products for Sustainable Use
Friday, December 19th, 2008 Posted in Columns, Green News | Comments OffBy Adele Peters When someone mentions ‘sustainable product design,’ the first thing that comes to mind may be products that are made with renewable materials, or materials that can be used in a closed technical loop. Of ...