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Mess Free Oil Change System For Small Engines, Lawn mowers, Leaf Blowers and Tillers

Airpower America, has introduced an innovative, time-saving, and do-it-yourself alternative to a service company oil change, and a clean and easy solution to a normally messy and difficult project. The LiquiVac Oil Changing System extracts oil in small engines, including lawn mowers, leaf blowers, and tillers, in seconds

18 May 2009

Window Decals May Soon Be Used on The White House to Protect Birds

WindowAlert announced today that it has sent technologically advanced window decals to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington DC. The decals help prevent wild birds from striking windows. It is hoped that Michelle Obama and her children will set an example for the country by installing the decals on White House windows

17 May 2009

DuPont Corian Featured as Sustainable Product

DuPont Corian was selected to be featured as a product in Casa Sustentable in Argentina to highlight the importance of recycling and reusing materials for construction and decoration

15 May 2009

Clean Energy Prize Won By Husk Insulation

The MIT Clean Energy Prize has announced that Husk Insulation was selected from more than 100 student entries from 40 colleges and universities across the country to receive the $200,000 MIT Clean Energy Grand Prize spon...

14 May 2009

OSRAM Energy Saving Lamps Being Used For Public Lighting in Germany

Hardly any other building symbolises Germany like Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate. Which is why lighting the Pariser Platz in front of the monument is so vitally important. After all, the world-famous square ought to loo...

14 May 2009

Energy Saving Steel Used on Swedish Pavillion at Expo 2010

An energy-saving steel that can dissipate heat from solar radiation will enclose the buildings at the Swedish pavilion at Expo 2010 in Shanghai next year. Prelaq Energy from SSAB is a newly developed Swedish façade ...

14 May 2009

VAST Composite Pavers Helping Landscapers Get Excellent Results With Less Labor

VAST Enterprises, has a solution for landscape contractors who are striving to differentiate themselves and achieve greater efficiency improvements. In today's tough economy, forward-looking contractors could take advantage of a premium (and green) product for hardscapes
that enables them to get excellent results with less labor

14 May 2009

Dupont Releases New Products For Better Solar Panels

DuPont today announced the commercialization of two new families of photovoltaic encapsulant sheets that are expected to improve durability and efficiency of photovoltaic modules

14 May 2009

Australian Homes To Benefit From Government Energy Efficiency Programs

More than three million Australian households are set to benefit from the largest energy efficiency rollout Australia has ever seen. The $4.0 billion Energy Efficient Homes Package will install ceiling insulation in 2.9 million homes and help more than 300,000 additional households install a solar hot water system

13 May 2009

The Gatsby Hollywood Toured by Sustainable Building Students From UC Irvine

University of California, Irvine students enrolled in "Developing Green and Sustainable Communities" recently toured The Gatsby Hollywood - metro L.A.'s first all solar, Certified California Green, Smarthome community

12 May 2009

Real Time Monitoring of the Water Supply to a Building Developed

Although most Americans take the safety of their drinking water for granted, that ordinary tap water could become deadly within minutes. To combat the threat of contamination due to industrial spillage, natural disaster or sabotage, the physicist has developed a new system to monitor the safety of a building or community's water supply in real time

12 May 2009

New Tool Determines Environmental Impact of Offices

Office premises cause a significant part of society's environmental effects. VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has developed a tool together with Rapal Oy that can be used to determine the environmental load caused by various premise solutions

12 May 2009

Sustainable Architectural Aluminum Products From Alcoa Kawneer Increases Energy Efficiency of Hospital

Alcoa announced that a range of its Kawneer architectural aluminum products are contributing to the “green” campus of the new Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC. The facility incorporates Kawneer products that maximize daylighting and thermal performance, including curtain wall, sunshades and thermally broken windows and doors

12 May 2009

Design and Construction Firms Say Stimulus Package Not That Stimulating

The final verdict is still out, but as of now the stimulus package hasn't been all that stimulating when it comes to infrastructure projects across the county, according to the top CEOs from leading design and constr...

12 May 2009

Chinese Drywall Litigation To Be Examined at Conference and Two Teleconferences

Attorneys and experts will gather in New Orleans on June 18 to share information and network on the latest health and property damage controversy involving building materials: drywall imported from China. They also are g...

12 May 2009