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    US Energy Department awards $2.4bn in auto battery grants for 48 projects

    Posted on August 10, 2009 by shilpa

    Things are moving now after the six-month, no-work slurs that President Obama has been constantly getting. The Department of Energy announced which U.S. companies have been awarded grants amounting $2.4 billion to build manufacturing plants for electric vehicle batteries. It … Continue reading3 →

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    Dallas will soon have a sustainable urban skyscraper

    Posted on August 6, 2009 by anoop

    North Carolina based architecture firm Little Diversified Architectural Consulting has conceived an incredible project that will transform a vacant parking lot in Dallas to a completely self-reliant eco-city. The project has been given the name as Entangled Bank. The project … Continue reading3 →

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    Maine Hannaford Supermarket gets major environmental recognition

    Posted on July 14, 2009 by shilpa

    Supermarkets are probably the biggest crowd pullers in present day than any other store or organization. And when they go out of their way to make efforts to do something useful for the environment, it is encouraging. The Hannaford Supermarket, … Continue reading3 →

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    Washington building world’s largest Solar PV plant

    Posted on July 10, 2009 by anoop

    A team of private investors has unveiled that they plan to build a solar photovoltaic plant in Washington that would be the largest in the world. The 75 megawatt Teanaway Solar Reserve will be located on 400 acres of private … Continue reading3 →

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    eSolar shows off with 24,000 heliostats

    Posted on July 8, 2009 by shilpa

    For this year’s American Independence Day, there was a special feature in California. eSolar, a company that specializes in solar thermal power, transformed a vast field of 24,000 heliostats (or light weight mirrors) at its Southern California solar farm into … Continue reading3 →

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    UAE solar power capable of outdoing US and Europe

    Posted on July 6, 2009 by anoop

    The solar power in UAE has the capability of outdoing US and European targets of producing 20 to 30 percent of renewable energy by 2020. This is mainly because of the large revenues from high oil prices, trade and tourism … Continue reading3 →

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    Tallest U.S. building to get “green” makeover

    Posted on June 25, 2009 by monali

    The 110-story Sears Tower in the Western Hemisphere will get a $350 million “green” makeover, to convert the office into an environment friendly space. The tower will be renamed to Wilis towers later this summer after the new tenants Willis … Continue reading3 →

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    Zero Pollution Motors to launch air-powered vehicle in the US by 2011

    Posted on May 28, 2009 by shilpa

    After the electric and hybrid models and also a few solar ones, now the focus is slowly shifting on air-powered vehicles. It is still at the initial stages though as engineers say that the energy required to power air-compressors in … Continue reading3 →

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    LA Metro to hire more LNG buses

    Posted on May 26, 2009 by anoop

    Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority had ordered 200 compressed natural gas buses. These buses have worked so well that the LA Metro is planning to hire another 96 more. These vehicles are operated by Cummins Westport vehicles. The buses are … Continue reading3 →

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    New York’s new eco-friendly mall is a part of Destiny USA project

    Posted on May 20, 2009 by deepa

    New York’s Destiny USA project has been in news since a while. However, recently, Trey Granger has summed up the greenness of the new mall which is an expansion of the existing Carousel Center mall on Earth911. Located in Syracuse, … Continue reading3 →

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