- Contact Laura Barnes (lbarnes@istc.illinois.edu) with questions, comments, and suggestions.
Search ENB
Archived Posts
Categories
Daily Archives: January 10, 2008
ESTCP FY 2009 SEED Solicitation
The solicitation for the Department of Defense’s (DoD) FY 2009 Environmental Security Technology Certification Program (ESTCP) was released on January 10, 2008. DOD ORGANIZATIONS: The DoD Call for Proposals requests pre-proposals related to each of the ESTCP focus areas: (1) … Continue reading
Posted in Funding Opportunities
Leave a comment
EPA Launches National Radon Action Month
Did you know? Breathing home indoor radon causes nearly one hundred times more deaths each year than carbon monoxide poisoning. Radon is the second leading cause of lung cancer behind smoking. Some 20,000 people will die this year due to … Continue reading
Posted in Environmental Health
Leave a comment
City Council Passes Bill for Recycling of Plastic Bags
Read the full story in the New York Times. The New York City Council overwhelmingly passed a bill requiring large stores and retail chains to collect and recycle the plastic bags they give to shoppers.
Posted in Policy, Recycling
Leave a comment
The latest issue of GreenerComputing News
For a full-color, graphic version of this newsletter, go to http://www.greenercomputing.com/enewsletter. More Steps Toward Eco-Friendliness: Lead-Free, Halogen-Free and Energy Efficiency By Todd Brady http://www.greenercomputing.com/reviews_third.cfm?NewsID=36505 Manufacturers are taking strides to make IT products more efficient and with less hazardous materials. For … Continue reading
Financial Practices Could Hinder Green Innovation
Read the full story in the Environmental Leader. A cap on carbon emissions is all but inevitable, however the details of those caps have yet to be determined. As a result, some companies are moving slower rather than faster towards … Continue reading
Posted in Green Business
Leave a comment
PwC Steers Employees Towards Greener Cars
Via the Environmental Leader. Under a a contract hire scheme in its flexible benefits program, employees at PricewaterhouseCoopers can currently select a car from an extensive list of models that includes green cars as well as gas-guzzlers, but that’s about … Continue reading
Posted in Green Business, Transportation
Leave a comment
U.S. to require agencies to buy green PCs, monitors
Read the full story in ComputerWorld. The U.S. government plans to require federal agencies to buy PCs and computer monitors that are energy efficient and include reduced levels of toxic chemicals — a requirement that likely will affect corporate users … Continue reading
F.T.C. Asks if Carbon-Offset Money Is Well Spent
Read the full story in the New York Times. Corporations and shoppers in the United States spent more than $54 million in 2007 on carbon offset credits, but where exactly is that money going? See also: FTC Holds First Workshop … Continue reading
Posted in Green Business
Leave a comment
NOAA Discovery Kits
Discovery Kits describe the basic scientific principles underlying the applied science and activities of NOAA’s National Ocean Service (NOS). Designed for educators and students at the high school level, they are written in non-technical language, and focus on the themes … Continue reading
Posted in Schools
Leave a comment
GGHC Design & Construction Series – Introduction to the Green Guide for Health Care and Emerging Tools
Date: January 11, 2008 Time: 1:00 eastern, 12:00 central, 11:00 mountain and 10:00 pacific and will last for 90 minutes.Note: A subscription is required to access H2E webinars. Visit http://www.h2e-online.org/subscribe/index.htm for more information. Topic An overview of the history of … Continue reading
Posted in Green Building, Health Care Industry
Leave a comment