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Enterprise Announces Commitment to Create and Preserve 15,000 Environmentally Friendly Homes for Low-Income New Yorkers

Enterprise, a leading provider of affordable housing nationwide and an innovator in green building, today announced a partnership with the Clinton Climate Initiative (CCI) to bring green affordable housing development an...

12 Dec 2007

Researchers Study Mysteries Surrounding Air Flow Around Wind Turbine Towers

Using smoke, laser light, model airplane propellers and a campus wind tunnel, a team led by Johns Hopkins University researchers is trying to solve the airflow mysteries that surround wind turbines, an increasingly popul...

12 Dec 2007

Towel Rail with Built in Television

Brand new Towel Warmer Series incorporating the high specification waterproof 17" AQUAVISION LCD television with a MIRRORVISION panel, built into a bespoke state of the art towel rail from Aquavision. This new se...

12 Dec 2007

Simmtronic to Provide Full Lighting Solution for New Building at Canary Wharf

Simmtronic has been awarded a contract from PIP Electrics Ltd to supply fully addressable lighting controls for 20 Churchill Place, Canary Wharf. Every luminaire in the building will be controlled under DALI protocol by ...

11 Dec 2007

Fractal Patterns Adorning Building Inspired by Nanotechnology Research

The fractal patterns seen on the University of Southampton's new Mountbatten Building were inspired by research on optical nanotechnology research in the School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) and the Optoe...

11 Dec 2007

Rebuilding Together Launches Nonprofit Organizational Development Institute

From the floor of their most attended national conference in a nearly 20 year history, Rebuilding Together announced the launch of the Organizational Development Institute. As the nation's lead nonprofit preservin...

11 Dec 2007

HSE Warns Construction Companies to Take the Danger of Working at Height Seriously

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has warned construction companies to take the safety of their employees working at height seriously. The warning follows HSE’s prosecution of a Liverpool construction company f...

11 Dec 2007

Full Sized Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System Prototype for the U.S. Navy

Hensel Phelps Construction Co., a Colorado-based construction company that for more than seven decades has built a wide range of public and private projects nationwide, has used Vela Systems' mobile field management ...

11 Dec 2007

Ireland to Ban Incandescent Light Bulbs by 2009

Ireland has become the first European country to announce the ban of incandescent light bulbs. They will ban the sale of incandescent light-bulbs by the year 2009. In a statement, John Gormley, the Minister for the De...

11 Dec 2007

UK Announces Plan For Offshore Wind Generators to Provide Enough Electricity to Power all Homes in the UK by 2020

Harnessing the vast potential of the UK's island status entered a new phase as Energy Secretary John Hutton announced proposals to open up its seas to up to 33GW (gigawatts) of offshore wind energy. He also announced...

11 Dec 2007

First Phase of Buildings at Touchstone on Lake Muskoka are Carefully Rising up on the Fabled Shoreline

In one of the most anticipated developments in modern Muskoka history, the first phase of buildings at Touchstone on Lake Muskoka are carefully rising up on this fabled shoreline. A spectacular lakefront vacation home...

10 Dec 2007

Market-Rate Fixed Income Securities Support Affordable Housing, Healthcare, Economic Development, Home Ownership and Job Creation in California

Community Capital Management (formerly CRAFund Advisors), one of the nation’s largest managers of fixed income community investments, announced today that it has purchased more than $200 million worth of bonds that...

10 Dec 2007

Oil-Dri Announces Price Increases for Floor Absorbent Products

Oil-Dri Corporation of America today announced price increases for Oil-Dri clay floor absorbents effective January 1, 2008. The increase affects all customers or as current contracts allow. Oil-Dri has worked hard ...

10 Dec 2007

Environmentally Appealing Wood Plastic Composite is Exciting New Green Friendly Building Material

UPM ProFi, an innovative, environmentally appealing wood/plastic composite, stood the test of hundreds of stiletto heels and dozens of active children at the opening of Design Miami yesterday. The new product, primarily ...

10 Dec 2007

Tesla Roadster to go Completely Emissions Free after Solar Cell Electricity Generation Deal with Solar City

Although the Tesla Roadster is a long awaited high performance, electric vehicle, the electricity still has to come from a source - normally with it's own pollution problems. Now Solar City is joining forces with Tes...

10 Dec 2007