Radio Lifeline, a non-profit based in the US, has launched the Black Earth Project, a new initiative designed to help Kenyan farmers mitigate the growing impact of climate change. For this project, Radio Lifeline has partnered with ...
According to the American Public Transportation Association (APTA), public transportation avoids the use of 4.2 billion gallons of gasoline annually in the United States. While public transportation can refer to a variety of modes, APTA ...
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China has said it will increase its 2015 solar goal by 67 percent, Bloomberg News reports. Government officials say the new target is an attempt to reduce greenhouse gases; the announcement comes as smog in Beijing reached hazardous ...
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Glass for Europe is the trade association for Europe’s manufacturers of flat glass. Flat glass is the material that goes into a variety of end-products and primarily in windows and façades for buildings, windscreens and windows ...
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Ever since it erected its first lamp posts in the late 1890s,with electricity generated from its own municipal power plant a decade later,street lighting in the City of Pasadena,California,has undergone many changes in the ensuing decades ...
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The manufacture of glass makes relatively small demands on the environment compared with many other materials. It uses mainly readily available minerals to produce environmentally friendly products which have many beneficial uses from ...
By 2030 around 70 percent of the Europe's energy requirements is predicted to come from abundant reserves of gas in Russia, the Artic and the neighboring areas of southeast Asia and North Africa. Also to the European Union's 27 member ...
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Current economic struggles and the recent heavy focus on environmental matters, has many searching for new ways to improve both issues. Addressing such topics, a new report from Oil Price discusses the benefits that heat pumps provide to ...
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The Gazprom Board of Directors endorsed the Company's efforts aimed at implementing the voluntary mechanisms of environmental responsibility. The meeting noted that modern world experience contemplated for companies not just meeting the ...
Integrated Iron and Steel Works Zaporizhstal completed the project and started the industrial tests of basic coal store of pulverized coal injection complex in blast furnace production. The full volume of investments into the PCI project ...
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10 October 2012 Electricity producer Verve Energy of Perth,Australia,GE Energy Financial Services of Stamford,CT,USA and First Solar Inc of Tempe,AZ,USA have opened the 10-megawatt Greenough River Solar Farm near Geraldton,Western ...
More than 70 percent of the total revenue in 2012 attributable to sustainable products Osram used the Sustainable Innovation Forum 2012, taking place alongside the UN Climate Conference in Doha (Qatar), to present its current ...
Hyatt Regency Century Plaza, near Beverly Hills, has upgraded more than 78,000 square feet of its guest room windows with Solar Gard® Armorcoat® Stainless Steel window film. The application provides significant energy savings and UV ...
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US manufacturer of rigid and flexible packaging materials Clear Lam Packaging has developed new, renewable packaging for Lactalis American Group’s Precious Sticksters brands. The Precious Sticksters package made on horizontal form, ...
Crown Holdings, a supplier of cans and other metal packaging products has announced that the company cut its direct greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) by 8% from 2007 to 2010, according to its first sustainability report. During the period, ...
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