Using cutting edge materials and proven technology to harvest energy from the sun and wind, SolarBotanic is planning to produce artificial trees that look like real plants, but produce electricity when the wind blows and sun shines.
The Amazon rainforest is less vulnerable to die off because of global warming than widely believed because the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide also acts as an airborne fertilizer, a study showed on Wednesday.
The city of Boulder, Colorado has won the right to take its power supply—and carbon emissions—away from corporate control and redirect it toward the sun. The change for Boulder came in November when voters passed two ballot measures that allow the city to begin the process of forming its own municipal power utility to take advantage of the 300 days of annual sunshine.
The world's largest express transportation company continues to bolster its fuel efficiency with a significant expansion this summer of lower polluting, energy efficient vehicles. While doubling the fleet of all-electric vehicles to 43, FedEx is also adding more hybrid-electrics and light composite vehicles.
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Peter Eisenberger, a distinguished professor of earth and environmental sciences at Columbia University, has build two machines in Menlo Park, Calif., that pull carbon dioxide out of the air, like a catalytic converter for your car, but giant-sized. The challenging part was figuring out what to do with the CO2 once it was captured. But he thinks he's found the perfect solution making fuel.
China's central government plans to spend $27 billion (170 billion yuan) this year to promote energy conservation, emission reductions and renewable energy, the Ministry of Finance said in a statement last week.
The combination of a strong energy mandate passed by the former Governor Jon Corzine, and a generous carbon offset program has made New Jersey a shining example as the nation's second largest producer of solar power, behind California.
Daimler and five oil and industrial gas companies will invest about 350 million euros ($500 million) on a network of hydrogen filling stations for fuel-cell electric vehicles in Germany over the next 10 years, they said on Monday. Fuel-cell cars are seen by many in the industry as the best long-term solution to lowering carbon emissions in cars.
An powerhouse alternative energy start-up is transforming the way North America manages organic materials, turning food and animal waste into renewable energy and other useful products at its plants in British Columbia, Ontario, California and throughout the Mid-Atlantic, Midwest and Northeastern states.
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China is setting a world record by already reducing its CO2 emissions by an amount equal to what the entire United Kingdom produced in that same period.
Deforestation of the Amazon has fallen to its lowest levels since records began in 1988, according to data recently released by Brazil's National Institute for Space Research.
A planned power plant in Wales may look like the Guggenheim Museum but its benefits will outweigh the beauty: it will use the ocean tides to power 155,000 homes.
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