Gainesville, FL – Recently, Rolls ’n Bowls became a Certified Green Restaurant™ in accordance with the Green Restaurant Association’s rigorous guidelines. The Japanese bistro is eager to continue their work toward lessening the restaurant’s environmental impact and looks forward to working with the national non-profit to implement even more steps in the coming years.
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Mar 30, 2009 – Tom Zeller, Jr, writing in The New York Times notes that the European Union [EU] adopted regulations on household, commercial and public lighting in March 2009. The directive contains language regarding “nondirectional” and other sorts of lamps, and it makes room for the halogen, a more efficient version of the standard [...]
Mar 30, 2009 – Jeff Johnson reports in Chemical & Engineering News on March 16, 2009 that Steven Chu, Secretary of Energy, is reviewing President George W. Bush’s administration to cancel a large-scale, clean-coal gasification project. FutureGen was to have been a carbon capture project that would generate electricity by burning synthetic fuel produced at [...]
Mar 30, 2009 – Elizabeth Wilson in Chemical & Engineering News reports that Professor Gerbrand Ceder and graduate student Byoungwoo Kang at MIT synthesized a popular Li-ion battery material, LiFePO4 [Nature, 2009, 458, 190] with slightly different characteristics that recharges in seconds rather than minutes. This could be an advance for these ubiquitous batteries found [...]
Mar 29, 2009 – Besides being an exciting gadget the Fonera 2.0 helps you reduce some of the CO2 you generate in your digital life. The Fonera 2.0 is Green because you can save energy moving your long time consuming tasks from the notebook or desktop to your Fonera 2.0, allowing you to shut down [...]
Many people in the business world have the misconception that going green means higher costs or lower quality, but most “green” practices are just good business. Restaurants are the most energy intensive commercial businesses in the United States, so naturally it makes sense that owners would want to cut their energy costs. Environmentally friendly practices [...]
Mar 25, 2009 – Astronauts Steven Swanson and Richard Arnold II hooked up solar wings on the international space station this week. The new $300 million, 115 foot long wings were delivered earlier by space ship Discovery. The space station now has 8 solar wings attached and the extra power will be used for additional [...]
Mar 24, 2009 – You knew it was coming. Green power versus green. What is the controversy? You’ve seen wind farms and large solar collectors. What was there first? Beautiful natural vistas. When do the lawyers get involved? Put in 40 story wind turbines and there goes the neighborhood. Felicity Barringer writes about “Environmentalists in [...]
Mar 24, 2009 – A previous post has Toyota’s press release concerning the third generation Prius hybrid. Today Honda is introducing their newly redesigned Insight hybrid.
Here is the Honda press release: We’ve been calling the Insight affordable since we launched this blog back in October. Now we can finally let you in on just how [...]
Jan 12, 2009 - The following information is from a Toyota press release so take that into consideration when you read the superlatives and also read other posts concerning other hybids, etc. See the Toyota video here http://www.toyota.com/vehicles/minisite/prius/?siteid=DMG_em_200903_RLA_pri_hrs_hdl&url=headline. Toyota Motor Sales (TMS), U.S.A., Inc., unveiled the all-new 50-mile-per gallon rated third-generation Prius hybrid vehicle today [...]
Mar 24, 2009 – On 27 February, the board of directors received a letter from the Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy that stated that “the Norwegian State at the Annual General Meeting will only vote for proposals which include the name Statoil, either alone or as the dominating part of a new name”.
“The question [...]
Mar 24, 2009 – Rancho California Water District (RCWD) and SunPower Corp. (Nasdaq: SPWRA, SPWRB), a Silicon Valley-based manufacturer of high-efficiency solar cells, solar panels, and solar systems, announced the completion of a 1.1-mw solar-electric power system at the district’s water treatment facility in Murrieta. The system produces a portion of the facilities’ electricity requirements, [...]
Mar 24, 2009 – Siemens Energy is to acquire a 28% stake in the Italian solar company Archimede Solar Energy S.p.A. and thus expand its competencies for solar thermal power plants. ASE is the sole producer of solar receivers operating with molten salt as the heat transfer fluid. Siemens is market leader in steam turbine-generators [...]
Mar 24, 2009 – First Solar, Inc., (Nasdaq: FSLR) has entered into a 25-year power purchase agreement with Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association, Inc., a wholesale electric power supplier serving more than 1.4 million consumers through 44 electric cooperatives and public power districts in Colorado, Nebraska, New Mexico and Wyoming.
“This photovoltaic (PV) power plant is [...]
Biosolar’s Cost-Saving Bio-Based Materials for Global Solar Market Poised to Make Solar Power Cost-Competitive and Decrease Industry’s Dependence on Oil.
BioSolar, Inc. (OTC BB: BSRC), developer of a breakthrough technology to produce bio-based materials from renewable plant sources that reduce the cost of photovoltaic solar cells, “is challenging (DuPont™) Tedlar® with a new lower-cost solar panel backsheet [...]
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