Sustainability News
US striving for sustainability - Delaware Online
Secured to one corner of the Graham Hall roof, a set of solar panels keeps the lights on inside the University of Delaware's Center for Energy and Environmental Policy. But if you walk around campus, you would be hard-pressed to find other examples ...
CIOs are driving the green agenda - Silicon.com
CIOs are increasingly becoming "green ambassadors" - taking responsibility for driving the adoption of sustainable business practices in their own organisations and encouraging their suppliers to think green too, according to networking giant Cisco ...
Cars and toilets go green at eco-friendly G8 summit - Reuters
TOYAKO, Japan (Reuters) - Toilets that take on a life of their own, eco-cars coming sooner than you might think and security on Segways have cast this year's G8 summit in a decidedly green hue. Japan has made climate change awareness the overarching ...
BT to cut CO2 emissions by 80 per cent - Silicon.com
BT will rely on wind farms to produce a quarter of its UK power by 2016 as part of a major drive to cut CO2 emissions. The telecoms giant will build the largest wind power project outside of the energy sector as part of a push to slash its 1996 ...
Cars, toilets go green at eco-friendly summit - Reuters India
TOYAKO, Japan (Reuters) - Toilets that take on a life of their own, eco-cars coming sooner than you might think and security on Segways have cast this year's G8 summit in a decidedly green hue. Japan has made climate change awareness the overarching ...
Betting on a bonanza - Philadelphia Inquirer
WAYNE COUNTY, Pa. - In this bucolic northeastern corner of Pennsylvania, old-timers and newcomers alike feel deep attachment to the land. That is true more than ever because of intense interest in what sits 6,000 feet below the rugged hills: a vast ...
ARCADIS Wins Job to Tackle Three Weak Spots in Dutch Coastal Defenses - MSN MoneyCentral
AMERSFOORT, The Netherlands, July 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ARCADIS (EURONEXT: ARCAD), the international consulting, design and engineering company, announced on Sunday that it will tackle three weak spots in the Dutch coastal defenses in three ...
Shelf Life - Boston Globe
Barbara Kingsolver's family moved from Arizona to a farm in Virginia so they could grow most of their food and buy the rest locally. The bestseller "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle" is her chronicle of the one-year experiment. Now along comes Betsy Block ...
Tanfield tumbles from the green bandwagon - Daily Telegraph
Eighteen months ago, an embattled Tony Blair was looking for a worthy distraction. With his admission that he'd become the first prime minister to be questioned by police as part of a criminal investigation, the "cash for honours" scandal had reached ...
Green TV: The Forests of South East Sulawesi - The Independent
Local people have developed a sustainable community-based forestry co-operative. The land was purchased by the community and is farmed for teak. The co-operative is the first in Indonesia to achieve Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certification for ...