Up to $55 Million in Funding Available to Develop Advanced Carbon Capture Technology at Existing Coal-Fired Power Plants

US Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced today that $55 million will be made available to develop advanced technologies that can capture carbon dioxide from flue gases at existing power plants so that the greenhouse gas may be sequestered or put to beneficial use.


United Nations Sets Up Green Technology Complex in Contaminated Ship Yard Site

Hunters Point Shipyard on California's San Francisco Bay has gone through several rebirths in its more than 100 years of existence.


Drexel University Becomes First U.S. Institution to Adopt Viridity Smart Grid Technology

Drexel University has become the first institution in the country that will deploy Viridity's VPower System energy monitoring system on its main campus, located in Philadelphia's University City District.


100 Scientists Support Ten By Ten Call

More than a hundred scientists specialising in climate change, the environment and ecology came together in London to support the Environmental Parliament's launch of the TEN BY TEN campaign.


Green Business Bureau Helps Businesses Get Most Environmental Bang for Their Buck

The Green Business Bureau helps eco-minded businesses and consumers across the nation save money while saving the environment.


Microsoft Licenses Berkeley Lab's Home Energy Saver Code for Its Energy Management Software

Microsoft Corporation has launched a Web-based home energy management service, Hohm, which uses the energy models in the Home Energy Saver, developed by the US Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab).


Johnson Controls Named Green Business of the Year by Milwaukee Business Journal

Johnson Controls has been named Green Business of the Year in southeastern Wisconsin as part of the inaugural Green Business Awards program by the Business Journal Serving Greater Milwaukee.


$30 Million From DOE for Carbon Capture, Sequestration

Two University of California, Berkeley, faculty members will receive $30 million over the next five years from the US Department of Energy to find better ways to separate carbon dioxide from power plant and natural gas well emissions and stick it permanently underground, according to an announcement yesterday (Monday, April 27) from the White House.





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