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PPG Industries, a leading manufacturer and supplier of architectural coatings and specialty products, has launched an online database that will help architects and owners select the most energy efficient roofing color.

Categories Energy, Energy Efficiency
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Container refrigerant technology has depended on refrigerants that, though improved over the past 14 years, still have a negative impact on the ozone layer. Carrier Corp., a global leader in in high technology heating, air-conditioning and refrigeration solutions – recently announced their newest innovation called NaturaLine, the world’s first natural refrigerant technology for container refrigeration.

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Deforestation and climate change are two main contributors to the steady expansion of desertification around the globe. The winner of the 2010 Popular Science Best of What’s New Innovation of the Year may well help to turn this potential global calamity around. The Goasis Waterboxx is an irrigation-free plant incubator. Most young plants wither and [...]

Categories Innovation
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General Electric – an innovative leader with their EcoImagination campaign and commitment to find and fund “the most promising technological breakthroughs for our power grid” – has announced the top five winners of their $200 million Ecomagination Challenge: Powering the Grid.

Categories Energy, Solar
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Israeli-based ZenithSolar has introduced their new solar powered generator which has broken all kinds of records. Its new Solar Z20, a third-generation CHP solar generator that combines heat and power systems, has achieved an amazing 72% solar conversion efficiency. Upgraded from an earlier 2nd generation system that only provided just enough water and electricity to [...]

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Committed to understanding America’s entrenched dependence on fossil fuel, noted environmental journalist Amanda Little criss-crossed the country to find the roots of our oil addiction. What she learned became the book Power Trip: From From Oil Wells to Solar Cells – Our Ride to the Renewable Future. Little has discovered what many of us fail [...]

Categories Books, Inspiration
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by atibens Composting – is it Just a Load of Rubbish? To Compost or Not to Compost Well, there’s no doubt about it, composting is a good practice that any self-respected gardener should learn to do. But the question really is what materials we could make into a compost and which ones we cannot. We [...]

Categories Composting
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An Explanation Of The Waste Incineration Directive Waste incineration has been a traditional method of dealing with unwanted domestic and industrial waste since man was rubbing sticks together to create fire. In 1970 the first waste incineration plants were functional that harnessed the power in the chemical reaction created by the incineration. As with many [...]

Categories Zero-Waste
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