With more than 200 Earth Day festivals annually logged by the Earth Day Network – the leading organization that mobilizes the green movement across the world – across the country on April 22, the second largest was in Dallas.
Gov. Chris Gregoire signed legislation to phase out coal-fired energy production at the TransAlta power plant in Centralia.
Dealers in selected Canadian markets began taking orders for the Volt May 2.
<p>Con Edison and New York City commissioned and certified the solar energy system on the Brooklyn, N.Y., IKEA store. As one of the largest commercial rooftop installations in the city’s five boroughs, the 200 kW array occupies 19,000-square feet, with four module types, totaling 1,104 panels. The array will generage 240,000 kWh of renewable electricity annually for the store, the equivalent of eliminating the emissions of 32 cars, or providing electricity for 20 homes yearly. This effort reinforces the company’s commitment to sustainable business practices in addition to reducing its carbon footprint.</p><p>
“We are very excited about enhancing the sustainable contribution IKEA Brooklyn continues to make in the local community by generating electricity through solar panels atop our store,” said Mike Baker, the store’s manager. “This initiative helps improve the environment and contributes to our vision of creating a better everyday life for the many.”</p><p>
Other IKEA U.S. sustainable building initiatives include a solar energy systems operational in two stores and under construction in nine others. Additionally, both a solar energy and geothermal system were incorporated into the Denver-area store opening this year in Centennial, Col. IKEA Brooklyn additionally has 70,000 square feet of green roof, a 6.5-acre waterfront esplanade, multiple transit options and has been certified as a brownfield redevelopment. The store also has been certified LEED Silver.</p><p>
The 346,000-square-foot Brooklyn store opened June 18, 2008, on 22 acres along the Erie Basin waterfront in Red Hook, south of the BQE/Gowanus Expressway and southeast of the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel. </p><p>
Swapping pork and beef for crickets and locusts could help to save the planet by reducing livestock green house gas emissions by up to 95 percent.
Researchers will study shale and tight-sand formations at the molecular level to understand how it moves through pores a few nanometers in size.
The index was created using data sources that reflect energy creation, consumption, and ICT spending among the G20 nations over the past two years. Events from 2011 – including the Japanese earthquake and tsunami – were not taken into account in generating this year's scores. </p><p>
Despite the growing scientific consensus that global warming is real, Americans have become increasingly polarized on the environmental problem.
EPA has released the 16th annual U.S. greenhouse gas inventory.
The New York State Attorney General’s Office urged the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold the right of states to sue five polluting power companies to force them to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, the primary cause of climate change.
New England’s largest utility to implement Environmental ERP solution to comply with regulations and corporate sustainability programs.
Lawmakers have delineated cuts in environmental and energy initiatives across the board in their latest budget proposal.
A pilot program will test the ability of proprietary enzyme technologies to reduce the environmental impact of industrial byproducts.
Restore America's Estuaries has partnered with Silvestrum and ESA PWA on the initiative and its requirements.
The company's study suggests that technologies, such as re-injection or pipeline development, exist to capture and use the gas instead of flaring it into the atmosphere.
The 18-year study has resulted in a model that addresses competition and fecundity under climate variables.
Greenopia, an online directory for green, sustainable, and socially conscious purchase decisions, has updated its oil company sustainability guide.
EPA has updated its emissions and generation database, or eGrid, with 2007 data, allowing users to access the information using ZIP codes.
The application, unveiled by Image Matters, confines itself to specific coastal wetlands such as Chesapeake and Delaware bays.
The report says EPA does not consider capital expenditures of manufacturers to meet regulatory deadlines or the basic law of demand ─ that higher prices will reduce demand and economic output.