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Smart Streetlights in Palo Alto Reduce Energy and Maintenance Costs While Producing Better Light Quality

Echelon Corporation announced today that the City of Palo Alto is demonstrating smart, energy efficient streetlights based on Echelon's LonWorks technology. The City aims to reduce energy and maintenance costs and lower greenhouse gas emissions, while improving light quality. Currently, the city's 6,300 streetlights cost around $700,000 annually in energy and maintenance costs

7 Jul 2009

Hooray for Ouray As It Becomes The First City in Colorado With All LED Street Lights

Through joint efforts between San Miguel Power Association, Inc. (SMPA), The City of Ouray, Tri-State Generation & Transmission, the Governor’s Energy Office, and Beta LED, Ouray, CO will officially become the ...

6 Jul 2009

Recycling Program For Recycling Old Bulbs and Other Electronics Gets Revamp

Air Cycle Corporation is pleased to announce the upgrade of LampRecycling.com, an online resource for facilities that need a simple and cost-effective way to recycle their fluorescent bulbs, CFLs, batteries, ballasts, and electronic waste

6 Jul 2009

Chinese Drywall Complain Center Demands to Know Who Knew What When About Toxic Chinese Drywall

Chinese Drywall Complaint Center is sure air conditioning companies knew about the Chinese drywall issues as far back as 2005, and failed to inform the consumers, out of fear of annoying their biggest clients, US homebuilders

6 Jul 2009

Affordable Home Remodelling With Decorative Mouldings

In today's unstable economy, many homeowners are still likely to focus on remodeling spending projects according to the Joint Center for Housing Studies by Harvard University. Sustainable manufacturer of decorative m...

6 Jul 2009

Greenblock Insulated Concrete Walls Get Bigger With Manufacturing Facility

Greenblock Worldwide Corp. announced today that they have begun production of their Insulated Concrete Form wall systems at Diversifoam Products in Rockford, MN. This facility brings Greenblock's total manufacturing locations to eight

6 Jul 2009

National Coatings' New Center for Technical Innovation Facility to Transform Research into Next Generation Roofing Coatings

National Coatings’ new state-of-the-art laboratory has the capability to provide breakthrough research and development results for the coating industry in the years ahead. This new center, equipped with cutting edg...

6 Jul 2009

Green Product Line Introduced by Cresco Concrete Products

Cresco Concrete Products now offers a complete line of precast fence systems featuring lightweight panels and rails. The company also manufactures Liteblok™, a lightweight, interlocking, dry stacked green building block

6 Jul 2009

Tru Tech Doors Now Available in The US

Tru Tech Doors, a Canadian door manufacturer, today formally announced their expansion into the U.S. market. Launched in 1998, Tru Tech Doors produces more than 250,000 residential and industrial door products a year at ...

6 Jul 2009

Sole Power Tile System Installed by SRS Energy on Curved Roof in California's Coachella Valley

SRS Energy, a leading developer of sustainable solar roofing products, has completed one of the first residential installations of the Sole Power Tile system at a residence in Bermuda Dunes, CA. The Sole Power Tile is the first building-integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) roofing product designed for curved roofing systems

6 Jul 2009

Google Maps Introduces Real Estate Search for Australia

Increasingly, people are heading online when looking for a new house to rent or buy, and from today, Google are adding the ability to search for properties on Google Maps

6 Jul 2009

Environmentally Friendly McDonald's Restaurant to be Built From Eco Materials and Feature Electric Car Charging Stations

McDonald’s and NovaCharge have announced the deployment of electric vehicle charging stations. McDonald's will open the first "green" restaurant, built with eco-friendly materials and technologies, including ChargePoint™ Networked Charging Stations for electric vehicles from Coulomb Technologies, making it the first of its kind in the United States

6 Jul 2009

Prototype System Developed for Contamination Removal From Toxic Chinese Drywall

SabCo, Inc., is a Palm Beach Gardens, Florida based environmental firm, which is directed by Ronald G. Huggins, MS, MPH, Ph.D., CIH, CIAQP. Dr. Huggins, in collaboration with Carl M. Sabatello, and Paul T. Sabatello, hav...

6 Jul 2009

New Publications Released On Fire Sprinkler Systems

Two new reports, produced by BRE Global experts, have just been published, Automatic Fire Sprinkler Systems and Sprinkler Systems Explained. Both publications provide good practice guidance on designing, installing, commissioning and maintaining fire sprinkler systems to ensure performance in the event of a fire

6 Jul 2009

Many Hotel Swimming Pools Don't Comply With Regulations

Poolresolution.com is making this public service announcement based on a small sampling of on premise surveys in Southern California area hotel and apartment pools, finding many are still out of compliance of VGB act. Th...

6 Jul 2009