Daily Archives: March 7, 2008

The latest from RenewableEnergyAccess.com

Posted on March 7, 2008 by Laura B.

The latest issue of Renewable Energy Weekly is now available. Highlights include: Renewables 2007 Global Status Report: Perceptions and Realities PV You Can Drive On: Promising Technology in Solar Roads Inside Renewable Energy podcast: Renewables Front and Center on the … Continue reading →

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Adaptable Polymer Inspired by Sea Cucumbers

Posted on March 7, 2008 by Laura B.

Read the full story in Technology Review. Scientists at Case Western University have made a biopolymer that switches rapidly between rigid and flexible states, using material inspired by sea cucumbers. The new material softens in the presence of a water-based … Continue reading →

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Climate Change: Widening the Power Rift

Posted on March 7, 2008 by Laura B.

Read the full post at Environmental Capital. Now that the U.S. Senate is moving closer to taking action on climate change, divisions within industries subject to regulation are widening. Power companies have long been split between those that use mostly … Continue reading →

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E20 blend passes compatibility, performance tests

Posted on March 7, 2008 by Laura B.

Via Docuticker. E20 blend passes compatibility, performance tests: Study finds 20 percent ethanol blend works in wide range of vehicles Source: Minnesota Department of Agriculture Increasing the amount of renewable ethanol blended into gasoline from10 percent to 20 percent does … Continue reading →

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Call for papers for AASHE 2008

Posted on March 7, 2008 by Laura B.

The Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) invites submissions of abstracts for its 2nd biennial conference – AASHE 2008:  Working  Together for Sustainability – On Campus and Beyond (Nov 9-11, 2008, Raleigh, NC). AASHE 2008 offers … Continue reading →

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Gary Radloff: Bioenergy ready to boom, and Midwest along with it

Posted on March 7, 2008 by Laura B.

Read the full story in the Capital Times. If scientists are successful, America could someday derive as much as one-half of its transportation fuels from biomass such as crop wastes, leaves and wood.

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$2.5 Million for Brownfields Environmental Job Training

Posted on March 7, 2008 by Laura B.

Read the press release. Thirteen communities in 10 states will share more than $2.5 million in job training grants geared toward cleaning up contaminated properties and turning them into productive community assets. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, under its Brownfields … Continue reading →

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Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge

Posted on March 7, 2008 by Laura B.

For Earth Day 2008, US EPA challenges residents and communities around the Great Lakes to collect and recycle electronic waste and to properly dispose of unwanted medicines. The agency’s goal is to collect 1 million pounds of e-waste and 1 … Continue reading →

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Auto Recyclers Help Collect Mercury from Wrecks

Posted on March 7, 2008 by Laura B.

Read the full story in Environmental Protection. Automobile recyclers in Washington have collected from the hoods and trunks of scrap vehicles more than 45,000 light switches containing toxic mercury, preventing the equivalent of 100 pounds of this toxic chemical from … Continue reading →

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E-Waste a Big Problem that May be Getting Bigger

Posted on March 7, 2008 by Laura B.

Read the full story in Environmental Protection. John S. Shegerian, chairman and chief executive officer of Electronic Recyclers International stressed the importance of addressing the “Hazardous Afterlife” of electronic waste at the Chartwell Waste Industry Summit recently in Tampa Bay, … Continue reading →

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