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Wednesday, March 16, 2005
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Increasingly, land developers are recognizing the long-term financial benefits of selecting sustainable sites for their projects. These range from access to money-saving building technologies to avoidance of liability and risk associated with the environmental impact of the site. [Source: GreenerBuilding.com]
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One of the U.S. Navy's two 'Energy Showcase' facilities to demonstrate applications of the latest concepts in energy-efficient and sustainable facility design, construction and operation. [Source: GreenerBuilding.com]
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The myth that property markets in regeneration areas are less profitable than in traditional development has been shattered by the publication of a pilot Urban Regeneration Index. [Source: GreenerBuilding.com]
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A key part of the green building revolution now underway has been the revolution in economics. [Source: GreenerBuilding.com]
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In an interview with the Development Gateway Foundation, George Carpenter, director of corporate sustainable development at the Procter & Gamble Company, explains how the company envisions to link business opportunity with corporate responsibility to create a concept called "corporate social opportunity." [Source: GreenBiz.com]
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While a Ph.D. candidate at Tufts University, Thomas Gloria compiled this list of Web links on life cycle assessment (LCA), the process of evaluating and ameliorating the environmental impact of a product or activity. The menu on the lefthand side of the page gives you a pretty good idea of the site's contents: lists of government agencies, companies that use LCA, industry groups, research institutes, and NGOs. The Publications page offers an impressive list of LCA-related books. Visit the Software Tools section for Web-based LCA tools such as LCNetBase and ECO-it. [Source: GreenBiz.com]
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This is an easy-to-read, practical guide for businesses and industries to address the growing issue of life-cycle assessment. It describes ground rules for credible assessments, evaluates the impacts and outcomes of LCA, weighs the implications of varying standards, and takes an honest look at the limits and boundaries of life cycle assessment. The report also contains an extensive list of LCA resources. [Source: GreenBiz.com]
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Toyota Motor Corp. and Daihatsu Motor Co., along with Kansai Paint Co., have jointly developed a new water-based paint and new painting methods. The new painting technology not only eliminates emissions of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) but also reduces emissions of carbon dioxide. [Source: GreenBiz.com]
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The Environmental Council seeks visual artwork for display at Environmental Horizons 2005, April 22 at the Illini Union. Faculty, staff and students with environmentally-themed photos, drawings or other visual artwork are encourage to participate. More information is available at www.environ.uiuc.edu/horizons05 or by contacting Lisa Merrifield at lmorrisn@uiuc.edu or 333-0045. Participants must submit a brief description of the piece(s) by March 30. The submission form is available on the web site.
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The Environmental Council is holding its 7th annual conference, Environmental Horizons 2005, showcasing environmental scholarship at the University of Illinois on Friday, April 22, 2005 at the Illini Union. Curt Meine, conservation biologist and writer, will be on campus to discuss Home, Land, Security: Conservation and the Common Good as the keynote speaker.
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Application due date: Apr 17, 2005
Grants awarded under this announcement will involve Geospatial Information. The National Lakes Assessment Planning Project (NLAPP) cooperative agreements will provide eligible applicants an opportunity to develop pilot projects to design a national lakes assessment. “Lakes” in this RFP shall include lakes, reservoirs and ponds but exclude the Great Lakes. These projects may include evaluations of various indicators of lake condition (e.g., physical, chemical, biological integrity, fishable and swimmable goals of the Clean Water Act (CWA)), sampling methods (e.g., field and lab protocols, remote sensing, etc.), interpretation tools (e.g., classification and reference condition, matrices, indices, models, etc.) and organization of expert conference and workshops.
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Application due date: Apr 25, 2005
U.S. EPA's Climate Protection Partnerships Division seeks to fund proposals that advance national, regional, and local energy efficiency programming by utilizing market-based approaches to program design and delivery. CPPD seeks proposals that demonstrate potential to create lasting change in the market for energy efficient products, services, and best practices.
Proposals may address one or more of the following concerns:
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Improving energy performance in the residential market through increased use of high-efficiency products;
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Increasing supply/market share for high efficiency products through retail, e-tail, and other sales outlets;
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Delivering improved energy performance to existing commercial buildings (e.g., offices, schools, hotels, hospitals, supermarkets, etc.) through technology or practice;
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Promoting improved energy performance in the commercial new construction market;
Proposals submitted for consideration should: (1) identify unique constituencies and approaches or channels for working with stakeholders; (2) demonstrate an understanding of the technologies and market structure for delivery of the technologies, or best practices, to end users; (3) identify market barriers to greater adoption of energy efficient technologies, or best practices, (4) delineate strategies for overcoming barriers identified.
Eligible entities are encouraged to submit multi-year applications. The final assistance agreement must be completed within an awarded period of performance from 24 to 36 months.
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(Source: EurekAlert News) The Green Chemistry Research and Development Act of 2005, introduced last week in the House, is being strongly supported by the American Chemical Society (ACS). The bill calls for improved federal coordination, dissemination and investment in green chemistry research and development. ACS President William Carroll said that the legislation "calls for research and innovation to encourage pollution prevention from the start" and that "green chemistry plays a critical role by concentrating on economic and environmental improvement through smarter technology and process design." The bill would call for the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the National Science Foundation, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Energy to work together to enhance funding and coordination of green chemistry R&D. [ChemAlliance Environmental News]
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The National Renewable Energy Lab along with the Athena Sustainable Materials Institute, is leading an effort to develop a publicly available U.S. life-cycle inventory (LCI) database to track the environmental impact of commonly used materials, products, and processes. The project objective is to provide a central source for critically reviewed LCI data that is developed in accordance with a common research protocol, is consistent with international standards, and is maintained by a credible agency.
This database is still in the early phases, but you can register to view it and stay informed of updates at http://www.nrel.gov/lci/. [ChemAlliance Environmental News]
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From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, an article on two green homes in the area. One, in the suburbs, is a newly-built house with many of the latest technologies. The other is a major rehab and exercise in "voluntary simplicity." I'm definitely going to have to go take a look... Technorati tags: green building, St. Louis
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From the Grand Rapids Press via TriplePundit, a report on Michigan farmers looking to wind power as a way of generating income and/or reducing their own costs. This article notes that Michigan (like my home state, Missouri) has no renewable energy policy -- wind is taking off on it's own. How's that for market viability? Technorati tags: wind power, Michigan
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Nationwide recognition and understanding of the Energy Star label has once again taken a significant jump, according to a survey conducted by the Consortium for Energy Efficiency (CEE) [ENN Business Headlines]
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The National Association of Home Builders presented National Green Building Awards to 11 winners in March, including five building projects, the California Green Builder program, green building marketing in Florida, and several "advocates," including DOE's Building America partnership. [EERE Network News]
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The Lexus RX 400h will go on sale on April 15th with a manufacturer's suggested retail price of $48,535, a price that includes a lot of premium standard features. The hybrid sport utility vehicle (SUV) has earned EPA fuel economy ratings of 31 mpg in the city and 27 mpg on the highway. [EERE Network News]
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New findings indicate that ski resorts and ski wax manufacturers have been unwittingly complicit in the pollution of wilderness areas and watersheds since the mid nineteen-eighties. [ENN Press News]
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From the marvelous We Make Money Not Art comes this link to STATIC!, a program of a Swedish Design Institute to design products that increase their user's awareness of their energy consumption. These products include the above "flower lamp" which 'blooms', becoming more beautiful if the energy consumption of the home has been low for a sustained period of time. This is 'green' design at its finest - products which surprise and delight because they're green, not in spite of it. [Z+Blog!]
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Patent abstract: A method of improving the operating efficiency of a fuel cell in a portable device such as a laptop or tablet PC. The efficiency is improved by using the heat produced by the CPU or other components in the PC to heat the liquid methanol for use in the anode part of the fuel cell. Liquid methanol can be heated when it is conveyed from a replenishing unit to the fuel cell via a conduit. The conduit can be embedded in a heat exchanger placed in the proximity of a CPU heat-sink. Alternatively, the conduit is placed near the heat-sink for heating the liquid methanol therein by radiation and convection. Additionally, a fan is used to direct the hot air around the heat sink to heat the liquid methanol in the conduit and to provide heated air to the cathode part of the fuel cell. [FreshPatents.com: Notable Patent Applications - 03/10/2005]
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Patent abstract: A fuel cell power generation system includes a reforming catalyst body configured to generate a reformed gas containing hydrogen from a feed gas and water, a fuel cell configured to generate electric power by consuming the reformed gas, and a burner configured to combust an off gas containing hydrogen from the fuel cell as a fuel gas to generate the combustion gas used for heating the reforming catalyst body. The off gas from which steam has been separated is heated, and the heated off gas is fed to the burner as the fuel gas, the separated steam being condensed into water which is discharged outside the system. [FreshPatents.com: Notable Patent Applications - 03/10/2005]
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Abstract: There is disclosed a system for implementing a virtual solar cell, which virtually produces output characteristic of a solar cell that satisfies conditions such as insolation, temperature and so on, to embody the performance of a solar cell without having an actual solar cell array. The system includes a data detector, a controller, a power converter, and a data logging unit, to measure external environment information such as temperature, insolation and wind velocity, and solar cell output characteristic according thereto to construct a database. In the case that output characteristic of a solar cell installed in the place a user desires at the time a user wants is produced when an actual solar developing system is designed, the system of the invention generates a voltage-current model of the solar cell, suitable for that situation, to obtain the same input/output characteristics of the solar cell as those of an actual solar cell. Furthermore, the data logging system of the present invention can store various characteristics of solar cells, generated and controlled by the controller, and interface with a user using the stored characteristics to perform remote control. [FreshPatents.com: Notable Patent Applications - 03/10/2005]
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Britain has declared climate change a top issue as it takes the leadership of the Group of 8 industrialized nations. By By HEATHER TIMMONS. [NYT > Science]
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The E.P.A. asserted that allowing companies to buy and sell the right to pollute would encourage control of the biggest sources of mercury first. By By MATTHEW L. WALD. [NYT > Health]
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© Copyright
2005
Laura L. Barnes.
Last update:
10/25/2005; 12:09:38 PM.
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