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Greenpeace Director Kumi Naidoo Deported from Greenland
The International Executive Director of Greenpeace, Kumi Naidoo, has been deported from Greenland after four days in jail. He is being flown to Copenhagen, where he will be held in prison for the night before being taken to Amsterdam, where he will be released. Naidoo and fellow activist Ulvar Arnkvaern were arrested on Friday morning after breaching an exclusion zone and scaling a controversial Arctic oil rig 120km off the Greenland coast. They were charged with ... Read the full story
Ice Thickness Map of the Arctic Unveiled in Paris
The first map of sea-ice thickness from ESA’s CryoSat mission was revealed today at the Paris Air and Space Show. This new information is set to change our understanding of the complex relationship between ice and climate. From an altitude of just over 700 km and reaching unprecedented latitudes of 88º, CryoSat has spent the last seven months delivering precise measurements to study changes in the thickness of Earth’s ice. Satellites have already shown that the ... Read the full story
Job Search Engine for Green Jobs Launched
Job search engines are many on the online scene but to have a web portal solely dedicated to specific jobs that work under eco-friendly ethics and regulations is rare. GreenZone.org has finally been launched as the exclusive provider of jobs in the U.S that is solely based on environment friendly undertakings. ?Thousands of clean technology jobs, environmental jobs, agricultural jobs and recycling jobs are available at this job portal. The web layout is rather down to ... Read the full story
Clean Energy and Public Art Design Competition
The Land Art Generator Initiative (LAGI) announced that, in partnership with New York City’s Department of Parks & Recreation, the 2012 LAGI design competition will be held for a site within Freshkills Park (the former Fresh Kills landfill) in Staten Island. LAGINYC 2012 is an ideas competition to design a site-specific public artwork for Freshkills that, in addition to its conceptual beauty, has the ability to harness energy cleanly from nature and ... Read the full story
Initiative of the United Nations Environment Programme meets at Bayer in Leverkusen
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has issued an appeal for better utilization of the climate protection potential of buildings, which account for roughly one-third of global greenhouse gas emissions. Speaking in Leverkusen on Tuesday, Arab Hoballah, Chief of the Sustainable Consumption and Production Branch of UNEP, said that the primary need is to sharpen the awareness of policy makers, market actors and other stakeholders of the need for and ... Read the full story
4th European Conference Innovations in the Environmental Sector
Due to popular demand, the deadline for submissions to the 4th European Conference “Innovations in the Environmental Sector” (INES) has been extended! Potential participants from the environmental sector, human resources development and competence modelling can now submit their papers until the 6th of June, 2011, providing further time for the development of subjects for presentation at the INES conference. “The interest shown in the conference has convinced us ... Read the full story
Colorado Renewable Energy Society 2011 Awards
The Colorado Renewable Energy Society (CRES) has announced the winners of its 2011 Renewable Energy in Buildings Awards and Individual Awards programs; including the Larson-Notari Award and Volunteer of the Year Award. The CRES awards program is one of many on going initiatives to recognize and encourage organizations and individuals contributions to Colorado’s growing renewable energy economy. The prestigious building awards, now in its twelfth year, are presented ... Read the full story
Toys“R”Us, Inc. to Install North America’s Largest Rooftop Solar Power System
Toys“R”Us, Inc. today announced plans to add the largest rooftop solar power installation in North America to its distribution center in Flanders, NJ. Staging for the system is currently underway and construction will conclude this summer. Upon completion, the 5.38 megawatt on-site solar mechanism will occupy 869,294 square feet and is estimated to generate 72 percent of the electrical needs for the Toys“R”Us®facility. “The unprecedented scope of this ... Read the full story
Smithsonian Scales Up Energy Efficiency with $45 Million Green Lab
With a $45 million federal appropriation to the Smithsonian Institution, the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in Edgewater, Md., on the Chesapeake Bay, will start building today what is expected to be one of the most energy-efficient laboratories in the country. Sustainable houses and office buildings have seen their popularity surge in recent years. But creating a more sustainable laboratory, especially one with chemistry research, where fume hoods can ... Read the full story
A Greener Day Celebration, June 18th Albany NY, AgreenerDay.org
A Greener Day Celebration is held on the Corning Preserve, on behalf of the Aurora Foundation of Northeast Inc. The Aurora Foundation (“Aurora”) is a non-profit organization. Aurora’s “Team Green” collaborates with local and national environmental experts, regulatory agencies, enthusiasts, students, volunteers and seniors to identify the actions, practices and sources which are actively harmful to the health of our local environment. They offer our ... Read the full story
