Solar Roadways is a company based in Idaho that is working to perfect and implement the idea of solar panels embedded within road surfaces, sidewalks and parking lots.
May 23, 2014
May 19, 2014
LEED green building certification program
May 9, 2014
BREEAM environmental assessment method
BREEAM is the world’s foremost environmental assessment method and rating system for buildings, with 250,000 buildings with certified BREEAM assessment ratings and over a million registered for assessment since it was first launched in 1990.
May 6, 2014
Green roof
A green roof or living roof is a roof of a building that is partially or completely covered with vegetation and a growing medium, planted over a waterproofing membrane.
May 6, 2014
Solar panel rental business
Google sees solar panel rental as an undervalued proposition in a booming solar market. The solar space is getting even more crowded now that Google will rent solar panels to households.
May 6, 2014
Tesla Motors Inc. in China
Tesla Motors Inc. (TSLA), the electric-car maker, starts delivering its luxury sedans in China this month and said the company’s co-founder, billionaire Elon Musk.
May 6, 2014
Bioenergy 2020
According to a new report from the European Environment Agency (EEA) bioenergy production should follow EU resource efficiency principles. This means extracting more energy from the same material input, and also avoiding negative environmental effects potentially caused by bioenergy production.
May 5, 2014
Production of low-cost green energy
The process by which plants convert energy from the sun’s rays into chemical ‘fuel’ has inspired a new way of generating clean, cheap, renewable hydrogen power which could solve looming problems with the UK’s energy infrastructure.
May 5, 2014
IKEA brings Sustainable Lighting to Families in UNHCR Refugee Camps
A new cause campaign, ‘Brighter Lives for Refugees’ will run in IKEA stores globally, for every LEDARE (LED light bulb) sold during the campaign, the IKEA Foundation will donate Є1 to the UN refugee agency (UNHCR).
May 5, 2014
World’s largest solar power plant
From February 2014 Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System is in operation after six years of construction.
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