How your firm can adjust as energy gets more & less carbon-intensive
For companies thinking about climate change and energy, what are the implications of two countervailing trends, the rise of energy with lower carbon content, and the concurrent rise of high-carbon energy?
ACT Expo 2012 Showcases Clean Propane Autogas Technology for Fleets
LONG BEACH, Calif., May 18, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The 2012 Alternative Clean Transportation Expo featured expert insight on propane autogas fueling and infrastructure from Alliance AutoGas partner Blue Star Gas. Held May 15-17 at the Long Beach Convention Center, the annual ACT Expo brings together industry organizations from across the country to put a spotlight on green transportation technology like autogas, the world’s most widely used alternative fuel.
GlobeNewswire: Energy News
‘This used to be a forest’
One grey Thursday at the end of April, a plane touched down in Fort McMurray, Alta., carrying four Achuar Indians from the Peruvian Amazon.
Two women have been charged over their protest against the $ 30 billion gas hub planned by Woodside Petroleum at James Price Point in Western Australia.
Colorful, Comfy Bench Is Made from Trashed Textiles
This odd-looking bench is stuffed with shredded textile leftovers.
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Toxic chemicals kill unwanted weeds, but at a cost. Labor intensive organic methods won’t be adopted by industrial farms. Could lasers be the answer?
Ultra-short laser pulses for science and industry
The shorter the pulse duration, the more precisely the laser tool operates. Ultra-short laser pulses of outstanding high average püower are opening the doors to new applications in high throughput materials processing. Thanks to the short pulse duration, thermal damage of the material being processed is minimized.
ScienceDaily: Matter & Energy News
Using newly developed imaging technology, chemists have confirmed years of theoretical assumptions about water molecules, the most abundant and one of the most frequently studied substances on Earth.
ScienceDaily: Matter & Energy News
Recycling the Debate of Sustainability – Boeing’s Dreamliner 787 Aircraft – PRLog (free press release)
What is sustainability? Is it a personal commitment to save the planet or just another opportunity to charge higher prices? No one really knows. When you think of the need for sustainability you might envision countries at war over water rights or …
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Improving accessibility to environmental science fieldwork using a portable communications network
John Maskall1, Paul Lunt1, Trevor Collins2 and John Lea2
1School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Plymouth, UK
2Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, UK
This workshop has two main aims. Firstly, it demonstrates a field-based approach to teaching environmental impact assessment at a site of former metalliferous mining activity. Secondly, it utilises mobile technologies to allow participants to engage ‘remotely’ in field-based activity by receiving voice and video data via a local area network.
Alcoa (NYSE:AA – News) today published its 2011 Sustainability Report which details the company’s global environmental, social and economic performance. It is the 11 th year in a row Alcoa has produced the report. “Sustainability is not a …
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BusinessClimate: Bringing corporate sustainability to the mainstream
The founder and principal of the upcoming BusinessClimate sustainability event discusses how sustainability is moving from the realm of CSR to competitiveness to national security, but how more evolution is needed to make it mainstream.
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The EPD Transparency Brief aims to make product environmental information not only free, but simple to review.
Nuclear Energy Insider: Post Fukushima, Intensified Interest in Nuclear Power in the MENA Region Continues
In a bid to meet increasing energy demands, the last decade has seen energy-rich countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) turn to alternative energy sources such as nuclear power and renewable energy. However, in the last few years the interest in nuclear energy has intensified despite issues raised following the accident at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant in Japan. …
Energy News Headlines – Yahoo! News
SAMSO, Denmark (Reuters) – Over a beer or two, Danes like to tell a story that goes like this: One night the energy ministers of the countries around the North Sea got together to divide up its oil and gas wealth. The Danish minister got very drunk, but the Norwegian managed to stay sober. As a result, Norway carved out a jagged shape that included Ekofisk, which has proved to be a major field, and Denmark was left with the dregs. …
Energy News Headlines – Yahoo! News
Mark Phelan: Energy Dept. website helps you find break-even point of hybrid … – Detroit Free Press
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Detroit Free Press 1:19 am Mark Phelan: Energy Dept. website helps you find break-even point of hybrid vehicles Fuel savings pay for the cost of the Buick Regal's hybrid systems in the first year of ownership, a new website reports. / General Motors By Mark Phelan The … |
Apple to use only green power for main data center
(Reuters) – Apple Inc plans to power its main U.S. data center entirely with renewable energy by the end of this year, taking steps to address longstanding environmental concerns about the rapid expansion of high-consuming computer server farms.
Reuters: Environment
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) – Large stretches of salmon-spawning streams and thousands of acres of wetlands would be wiped out if a large-scale mining project were to be built in southwestern Alaska’s copper-rich Bristol Bay region, according to a report issued Friday by the Environmental Protection Agency.