Irvine CA (SPX) Dec 07, 2009 - VIASPACE has announced that the first harvest of Giant King Grass has been completed and that a new grass processing and storage facility is under construction on company land in China.
Copenhagen, Denmark (SPX) Dec 07, 2009 - The world's first concept demonstration tires made with BioIsoprene technology, a breakthrough alternative to replace a petrochemically produced ingredient in the manufacture of synthetic rubber with renewable biomass, made their debut in Copenhagen, Denmark, this week.
New Delhi (AFP) Dec 7, 2009 - India's environment minister came under fire in parliament on Monday for his pledge last week that the country would reduce its carbon intensity by 20 to 25 percent by 2020, compared to 2005 levels.
Perth, Australia (SPX) Dec 07, 2009 - A new research centre dedicated to developing technologies designed to help establish sustainable, low-emission, geothermal cities, was launched in Perth by the Western Australian Minister for Mines and Petroleum, the Hon Norman Moore.
Brussels (AFP) Dec 7, 2009 - The energy ministers of nine European Union nations on Monday signed a deal to develop a massive offshore wind power grid in the North Sea and Irish Sea, as UN climate talks got underway in Copenhagen.
Copenhagen (AFP) Dec 7, 2009 - Here are the main options for tackling greenhouse-gas emissions, listed by order of feasibility:
San Francisco (AFP) Dec 7, 2009 - Fresh from signing on to help green Silicon Valley, startup Hara will be at climate talks in Copenhagen this week to urge that corporations not wait for regulations to fight global warming.
Washington (AFP) Dec 7, 2009 - The US government was set Monday to pave the way to regulate carbon dioxide as a dangerous pollutant, sidestepping a divided Congress to boost global climate talks in Copenhagen.
Berkeley CA (SPX) Dec 07, 2009 - Over 30,000 megawatts of wind energy capacity are installed across the United States and an increasing number of communities are considering new wind power facilities. Given these developments, there is an urgent need to empirically investigate typical community concerns about wind energy and thereby provide stakeholders involved in the wind project siting process a common base of knowledge.
Cairo (AFP) Dec 6, 2009 - Divisions within OPEC have eased as the dual threat of the global economic crisis and climate change talks force oil producers to be pragmatic and unified, analysts said on Sunday.
Hamburg, Germany (UPI) Dec 4, 2009 - The northern German port city of Hamburg is gradually turning into one of Europe's greenest cities.
Cambridge, Mass. (UPI) Dec 4, 2009 - Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have proposed a new type of natural-gas electric power plant that could provide electricity with zero carbon dioxide emissions.
Buenos Aires (UPI) Dec 3, 2009 - Argentina is building wind-power capacity to electrify villages steeped in poverty and underdevelopment as part of a project funded by the World Bank.
Billings MT (SPX) Dec 03, 2009 - National Wind, working with area ranchers and Billings-based, Montana Wind Resources, has announced the formation of Judith Highlands Energy, LLC. Judith Highlands Energy plans to develop over 500 megawatts (MW) of community-owned wind projects in the central-Montana counties of Judith Basin, Wheatland, Golden Valley, and Fergus.
Mombasa, Kenya (AFP) Dec 3, 2009 - The Kenya Marine Authority (KMA) said it narrowly averted an oil spill Thursday after a Liberia-flagged tanker that developped a list as it sailed into Mombasa port was stabilized.
West Lafayette IN (SPX) Dec 03, 2009 - A new generation of ultrasmall transistors and more powerful computer chips using tiny structures called semiconducting nanowires are closer to reality after a key discovery by researchers at IBM, Purdue University and the University of California at Los Angeles.
