Environmental Design
Environmental design includes articles that address products and buildings designed to be more eco-friendly. They are designed to be sustainable, more energy efficient and output fewer carbon dioxide emissions. Information is included on the use of environmental design innovations such as improved aerodynamics and the incorporation of alternative energies like solar and wind power.
Alcoa Releases Low-Weight Truck Wheels
Aluminum fabricator Alcoa has launched a new series of wide base that wheels are the lightest 14" aluminum wheels on the market.
The new 58 lbs ...
Lux: Bio-Chem Firms Poised to Revolutionize Industry
A group of fast-growing bio-based chemicals and materials startups - including Novamont, Arcadia, Elevance, Amyris, Gevo and Solazyme - is rapidly maturing and attaining scale, ...
Grupo Pao de Acucar Chooses SAP for Energy Monitoring
The Grupo Pao de Acucar, the largest retailer in South America, has selected the SAP Carbon Impact OnDemand product to monitor and manage carbon emissions ...
EPA’s Design for Environment (DfE) vs. ISO 14006:2011 for Eco-design
What's the difference?
How do DfE and the eco-design goal of ISO 14006:2011 compare? Someone asked me that and I realized some research ...
BP Wastewater Plant Installs FlexEnergy Turbines
BP is to install Flex Energy turbines as part of a greenhouse gas emissions reduction project at its Wamsutter, Wyo., water disposal facility.
Three Flex Turbine ...
US Replaces China as Top Clean Energy Investor
The United States has regained its place as the world's number one investor in clean energy, reclaiming the top spot from China, according to Bloomberg ...
Renewables Briefing: Vestas Layoffs, Dubai’s 1000 MW Solar Plant, BP and Sempra Team Up and More…
Vestas Wind Systems, the world's largest wind turbine manufacturer, is to lay off 2,335 staff worldwide. The company has also warned of a potential further ...
GeoSystems Launches New Geothermal Heat Pumps
GeoSystems LLC has released GeoSource, a new generation of geothermal heat pumps.
GeoSource was designed to meet and exceed Energy Star Tier 3 performance requirements making ...
Multifamily Block Refit Analysis Should Increase Retrofit Financing
It may soon become easier for owners of multifamily housing blocks to secure financing for retrofits and efficiency upgrades, according to a report by Deutsche ...
Sprint Adds UL Environment Certification to Phone Scorecard
Communications firm Sprint has updated its environmental scorecard evaluation criteria for phones and packaging for device manufacturers and vendors.
In an industry first, the scorecard, which ...
Smart Fog Humidifier ’90% More Efficient Than Steam’
Smart Fog Inc.'s ES100 commercial and industrial humidifier is 90 percent more energy efficient that steam for building and duct-mount applications, according to its ...
Renewables Briefing: Bloomberg, Nokia, Dalkia and 2012 Biofuels Predictions
Bloomberg's Princeton office is close to completing installation of a 1.8 MW solar power system that should generate the equivalent of over 50 percent of ...
New Green Packaging Products From Sealed Air, Linpac
Packaging manufacturers Sealed Air and Linpac have each launched products made of 95 percent "green" materials.
Sealed Air's PakNatural (pictured) is a "packing peanut"-type product ...
Vegas CES Showcase for ecoATM
An ecoATM kiosk (pictured) that rewards users for recycling their unwanted electronic equipment with cash or store vouchers will be on display at the International ...
Renewables Briefing: SunPower, CEI, Sound Solar, Matinee, CHP in Cambridge, Perdue and Fibrowatt
Matinee Energy Inc. has broken ground on a 120MW solar power plant planned for Benson, Ariz. WEIS GmbH Consortium from Germany supplied project partners for ...
Calif. DMV Retrofit Set for Summer Completion
A $130 million retrofit of the California Department of Motor Vehicles' headquarters (pictured) in downtown Sacramento is set to conclude this summer, reports Government Technology.
The ...
NREL: Commercial Mowers Use More Gas Than Cars
Regularly-used commercial lawnmowers can consume more fuel than a typical car, according to a guide to alternative fuel vehicles published by the National Renewable Energy ...
Creative Solutions for Cooling Revealed
Groundwater cooling and recycling water from a decorative fountain are two examples of creative ways to save money and energy on a facility's cooling, ...
‘Pillow Renovation’ Helps Hilton Concord Go Green
The Hilton Concord hotel in the San Francisco Bay Area is incorporating environmentally friendly systems, including such innovations as a low temperature dishwasher and "pillow ...
Fort Hood Gets SunMaxx Solar Thermal System
SunMaxx Solar, Johnson Controls and Intelligent Green Solutions have installed a solar thermal system at Fort Hood in Killeen, Texas.
The solar thermal system was installed ...
