Washington DC (SPX) Nov 12, 2009 - A partnership of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA), the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center at The University of Texas at Austin and the U.S. Botanic Garden have released the nation's first rating system for the design, construction and maintenance of sustainable landscapes, with or without buildings.
Morristown NJ (SPX) Nov 12, 2009 - Schindler Elevator Corporation presents a fundamental shift in building efficiency, function and flow with a groundbreaking new technology for building transportation. The Personal Occupant Requirement Terminal (PORT) brings the concept of customizable applications or apps to building environments.
Washington DC (SPX) Nov 12, 2009 - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced plans to fund research at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) School of Engineering on technologies that would help reduce greenhouse gas emissions through the capture and permanent safe storage, or sequestration, of carbon dioxide (CO2).
Thousand Oaks CA (SPX) Nov 11, 2009 - Energy crop company Ceres has announced that it plans to expand an advanced trait development project to increase biomass yields of several energy grasses by as much as 40% in coming years, while simultaneously decreasing the use of inputs such as nitrogen fertilizers.
Kuala Lumpur (AFP) Nov 11, 2009 - China's President Hu Jintao presided over the signing of a raft of deals with Malaysia Wednesday and indicated an interest in its vast palm oil and timber sectors.
Berlin (UPI) Nov 11, 2009 - Dena, the German Energy Agency, has warned that key investments in the electricity sector are being scrapped because of the country's nuclear revival.
Abuja (AFP) Nov 11, 2009 - Nigeria will next January ban gas flaring, an environmentally unfriendly practice of burning gas extracted alongside oil, the junior foreign minister, Bagudu Hirse, said on Wednesday.
Cold Spring Harbor NY (SPX) Nov 11, 2009 - As global temperatures and energy costs continue to soar, renewable sources of energy will be key to a sustainable future.
Singapore (AFP) Nov 11, 2009 - The United States called Wednesday for a compromise at next month's global climate talks in Copenhagen and vowed to support a fund to help developing countries cope with emissions cuts.
Irvine CA (SPX) Nov 11, 2009 - VIASPACE has announced it has applied to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to trademark Giant King as a unique brand of grass.
An Open Letter signed by more than 80 organizations from 31 countries was delivered yesterday to the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) and to World Wildlife Fund (WWF) co-initiator of the initiative.
Urbana IL (SPX) Nov 11, 2009 - Using a wet ethanol production method that begins by soaking corn kernels rather than grinding them, results in more gallons of ethanol and more usable co-products, giving ethanol producers a bigger bang for their buck - by about 20 percent.
Champaign, Ill. (UPI) Nov 11, 2009 - U.S. researchers say they've determined using a so-called wet ethanol production process yields not only more ethanol, but also more usable co-products.
Helsinki (AFP) Nov 10, 2009 - Finland's government said Tuesday it expected electricity consumption to grow slower than previously forecast in the next 20 years as the global economic recession had dented industry's energy use.
Des Plaines IL (SPX) Nov 10, 2009 - Envergent Technologies has announced that Italian power company Industria e Innovazione has selected the Envergent RTP rapid thermal processing technology for the development of a facility to convert biomass into pyrolysis oil for renewable power generation.
London (UPI) Nov 10, 2009 - Each year the world delays implementing a global climate-protection deal will add $500 billion to the costs related to greenhouse gas emissions reductions, the International Energy Agency said Tuesday.
