Alternative Energy - Feeling the Heat

Carbon standard ‘to renew trust’ - BBC News
A scheme highlighting businesses which have made genuine cuts in emissions is being launched to rebuild public trust in the green claims made by firms. The Carbon Trust says its standard will only be issued to UK organisations that show “real

German Town Requires New Buildings, Renovated Edifices To Have Solar - All Headline News
Marburg, Germany (AHN) - The college town of Marburg in Germany is taking the country’s green policies one step higher by mandating solar heating for new buildings and renovated edifices. The town’s council passed the legislation on Friday, amid the

World’s Biggest Solar Plant Goes Online in Germany - Deutsche Welle
A solar power plant described by its operators as the biggest in the world began generating electricity at the site of a former East German air base on Sunday, June 22. The Waldpolenz Solar Park is built on a surface area equivalent to 200 soccer

Swedish Museum Sets the Passive Energy Standard - Inhabitat.com
Passive homes heat and cool naturally without active mechanical heating and cooling systems. The low energy requirements are achieved through strategic building design which yields efficient and cost effective structures. Swedish architects Kjellgren

Ecolodge in our backyard - star.com.my
High above us, two Orang Utan are perched on the tree branches, munching happily on figs. A monitor lizard darts off as our boat approaches while an Oriental Darter swooshes across the water. Through our binoculars, we spot a pair of Black-and-red

Military Continues Commitment to Solar Energy - KHNL News 8
SALT LAKE (KHNL) — Global warming is forcing many people to examine how it could impact our island state. Including the military, which began it’s effort to go green a decade ago. This Salt Lake military neighborhood leads the way in helping protect

SustainableBusiness.com Announces The 2006 SB20: 20 Companies Changing - CSR Wire
(CSRwire) Huntington, New York,- SustainableBusiness.com announces the 2006 SB20 list - 20 Companies Changing the World (for the better!) The list is presented in the Progressive Investor newsletter, published by SustainableBusiness.com, which tracks

The future is now? Pretty soon, at least - International Herald Tribune
Before we get to Ray Kurzweil’s plan for upgrading the “suboptimal software” in your brain, let me pass on some of the cheery news he brought to the World Science Festival last week in New York. Do you have trouble sticking to a diet? Have patience

Living Green: Four Oklahomans share their tips - Daily Oklahoman
Lisa Janssen talks with Mary Floyd from Blue 7 about going green in what you wear. Fed up with Edmond neighborhood rules that kept him from installing solar panels and hanging his clothes out to dry on a backyard clothesline, May moved out to a large

Suntech Power Holdings rises on 1Q report - Forbes
Suntech Power Holdings Co. Ltd.’s American Depositary Shares rose Friday after the solar cell maker posted strong first-quarter results that easily beat Wall Street expectations. Adjusted earnings roughly doubled to 35 cents per ADS on revenue of

Cox cuts energy costs from the ground up - AZCentral.com
Three percent is an unimpressive number, Cox Communications officials admit. That’s the amount of gas mileage one might save by properly inflating the tires on an automobile. It might translate into an extra mile per gallon in a truck. But spread

Time to turn down the heat - The Independent
Roof insulation has to be at least 270mm thick in new homes Thirty years ago, the idea of buying a house that was as good for the planet as it was for your family seemed ridiculous, but these days new homes are often fitted with living roofs, ground

Arctic is thawing faster than expected, report says - Globe and Mail
Theo Lichacz from Kawartha, Canada writes: Where’s the science? Climatologist Martin Sommerkorn?? He is an ‘ecologist specialising on carbon-nutrient interactions with emphasis on belowground processes’and also ‘ Senior Climate Change Adviser, WWF

Preserving the past helps the future - Sun and Press
Did you know that 5 percent of the world’s population consumes a third of its resources and makes nearly half of its waste? And that 5 percent is the United States? Yup, that’s right. Americans make up only 5 percent of the world’s population, but we