Articles in Environment News
Green Roof Technology Releases New Podium Roof Garden Assessment
In a new series of green roof project assessments, Green Roof Technology analyzes extensive green roofs – vegetated / living / eco roofs – all across the world and relates them to the market in which they are located. Extensive green roofing is becoming increasingly localized with local policies dictating market conditions and creating unique environments for constructing green roofs. In their first green roof assessment, Green Roof Technology sets aim on ... Read the full story
CEIL’s GOVgreen Wins #11 on Expo Magazine’s Top 25
The GOVgreen Conference and Exposition has placed 11th on Expo Magazine’s Top 25 Fast-Growth Shows of 2011. To compile the list Expo magazine concentrated on both performance metrics and new strategies, innovative ways of showcasing exhibitors and use of new media and IT. Metrics were: Square foot size Square foot growth Attendee size Attendee growth Exhibitor size Exhibitor growth Revenue growth Attendees per square foot “Our verified attendance increased 29% ... Read the full story
Solamon Announces Plans for Caribbean Solar Farm
After numerous visits and meetings with administrators and regulators this past year, Solamon Energy Corp. today proudly announced its program to build the largest solar power plant in the Caribbean in Jamaica. It is expected the program, estimated to cost $450 million, will enhance and improve the nation’s energy infrastructure, as well as serve as a beacon to attract additional investment in the ICT and greentech sectors, will represent one of the region’s first ... Read the full story
Environmental Source Samplers Announces Completion of International Stack Testing Project
Environmental Source Samplers, Inc. (ESS), an air and emission stack testing firm based in North Carolina, announces a successful completion to a stack testing project at Lamma Island and Castle Peak Power stations in Hong Kong, China. ESS works with power generation and other industrial companies throughout the United States and worldwide to sample, analyze, and report on air emissions from pertinent stacks and sources. ESS mobilized to Hong Kong within two weeks of ... Read the full story
Shipping Containers As New Green Homes
Shipping container homes are the new green housing alternative taking the world by storm. With stockpiles of used shipping containers near major ports in countries such as the United States, Australia and the UK reaching epic proportions, environmental conscious architects and home builders have found a resource that can save the planet. Shipping containers are being used as the framework for houses, apartments, office space, cafes, student accommodation, emergency ... Read the full story
AmpleHarvest.org Focus of Public Television’s “Growing A Greener World”
The AmpleHarvest.org Campaign is pleased to announce that it was highlighted on a recent episode of Public Television’s “Growing A Greener World.” The AmpleHarvest.org Campaign, created by CNN Hero Gary Oppenheimer in 2009 was designed to educate, encourage and enable growers nationwide to share their garden bounty with their neighbors in need. It does this through an online clearinghouse of neighborhood food pantries eagerly accepting donations of fresh ... Read the full story
SGS provides Quality Control of Wind Towers for Sany Group
In July 2011, SGS was awarded a contract to provide specialist quality control services during the production process of wind towers by Sany Group in China. In order to ensure that the wind towers will fulfill the applicable regulatory and client-specific requirements and operate as intended, Sany Group, a heavy construction equipment manufacturer, looked for a reliable inspection, verification, testing and certification company. Due to the decades of experience in ... Read the full story
Handover of Green Footprints to UNFCCC at COP17
On 30 November, Climate Alliance will hand over “Green Footprints” collected by 200,000 children in 25 countries to UNFCCC Executive Secretary Christina Figueres in Durban. “ZOOM – Kids on the Move for Climate Action” is Climate Alliance’s annual campaign on sustainable mobility for children aged 4 to 10 years old, which aims to show that the ‘little ones’ can take steps to help protect the climate too and not just talk about climate protection like ... Read the full story
Green Chemistry Treats Contamination Before it Reaches the Groundwater
A technology that uses “green” chemistry to help microbes break down contaminants in soil before they reach the groundwater has earned kudos from the editors of Environmental Protection website as 2011 Soil & Groundwater New Product of the Year. The technology, which was invented by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Savannah River National Laboratory, and licensed and manufactured by EOS Remediation, LLC, a subsidiary of Solutions-IES, Inc., treats ... Read the full story
8th Environmental b2b Forum for South-East Europe
The Vienna event ‘Go South East’ (21 November 2011) is dedicated to the topics: Economy as an Engine of the Regional Development (Infrastructure, Transport, Energy, Legal Issues) and Banking and Insurance – Secure Financing as a Precondition for the Realization of the Regional Projects. The organizer’s goal is to contribute to a better understanding of the Region development and to promote the investment opportunities in South-East Europe. The event will ... Read the full story
