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Wednesday, March 29, 2006
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Increasing numbers of French publishing houses are using recycled paper
or environmentally friendly paper, environmentalists and industry
experts said on the sidelines of the Paris Book Fair which ends on
Wednesday. [Source: Yahoo News, 3/21/06]
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The major players in the cruise
industry, including cruise lines, local governments, and shore
operators -- in collaboration with civil society organizations -- are
taking proactive measures to ensure a sustainable future for cruise
tourism while preserving cruise destinations, according to this March
2006 report. From Ship to Shore examines the shared responsibilities
among cruise lines, governments, civil society groups, and shore
operators to manage the growth and expansion of the cruise industry
into sensitive ecosystems. The report also profiles leadership examples
of how these stakeholders are taking tangible steps to ensure a
sustainable future for cruise tourism, while maintaining the natural
and cultural integrity of cruise destinations. [Source: GreenBiz.com]
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Searchable listings of real facilities that saved money, reduced waste,
and/or lowered their regulatory burden through innovative pollution
prevention (P2) practices. [Source: GreenBiz.com]
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Japanese researchers have succeeded in making the sweet smell of
vanilla come out of the last thing people could imagine — cow dung.
[Source: Cooltech, 3/7/06 -- Thanks to Joy Scrogum for the link]
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Cities United for Science Progress (CUSP), a partnership between The
U.S. Conference of Mayors (USCM) and DuPont, invites your city to
“Think Big” and apply for the 2006 "Lead-Safe for Kids Sake" grant
program. The "Lead-Safe…for Kids Sake" grant recognizes cities with the
most outstanding lead-safe strategies implemented through programs,
public policy, education, or joint efforts with local stakeholders. For
the most outstanding lead-safe strategy, one city will receive the
$175,000 Award of Excellence, and two cities $100,000 Awards of
Distinction for lead-safe best practices. Of special interest are
innovative and replicable lead-safe strategies and practices that will
leverage the winning resources. Applicant cities must be members of The
United States Conference of Mayors. The application deadline is April 21, 2006.
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The Holland, Inc., announced that it has implemented a program in which
it will recycle the cooking oil from its Burgerville restaurants into
biodiesel, a cleaner burning blend of diesel fuel. All 39 Burgerville
locations throughout the Pacific Northwest will have their used cooking
oil picked up by Portland-based MRP Services and taken to a processing
plant where the oil is transformed into methyl esters (biodiesel) and
glycerin (a byproduct) through a process called transesterification. [Source: RenewableEnergyAccess.com, 3/22/06]
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InnovaTek and Seattle BioFuels announce the first successful production
of hydrogen from 100% biodiesel in a microchannel steam reformer. This
is the first time a renewable fuel source has been used to produce
hydrogen in a microchannel steam reformer to power emission-free fuel
cells. InnovaTek's reforming system was initially developed to produce
hydrogen from fossil fuels. [Source: RenewableEnergyAccess.com, 3/22/06]
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Startech Environmental Corp. and Future Fuels (FFI) have formed an
alliance agreement to mutually obtain contracts for waste-to-ethanol
facilities and specifically for FFI's own $84 million Waste-to-Ethanol
Facility to be constructed in Toms River, New Jersey. It is said to be
the first of its kind. [Source: RenewableEnergyAccess.com, 3/23/06]
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Organizers announced the inaugural California Clean Tech Open, a
competition that will gather entrepreneurs in September to vie for the
nation's largest cash and service prize devoted to innovations that
have a positive impact on the environment. Venture Capitol firms are
backing the event partly as a way to identify new opportunities in
clean and renewable energy. [Source: RenewableEnergyAccess.com, 3/23/06]
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The inaugural edition of the Inside Renewable Energy podcast takes a
look at the present and future of biofuels. Dan Kammen, Professor of
Energy and Society at University of California, Berkeley, explains why
doubts about corn ethanol are largely unfounded, and why the U.S. has a
long way to go toward harnessing the power of cellulosic substances. As
Professor Kammen points out, it will take more than State of the Union
assurances by George W. Bush to achieve energy independence. [Source:
RenewableEnergyAccess.com, 3/23/06]
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Customer choice programs are proving to be a powerful stimulus for
growth in renewable energy supply, according to a report from the U.S.
Department of Energy. The report ranks leading utility green power
programs. [Source: Environmental Protection E-News, 3/23/06]
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Applications due
May 24, 2006 .
The Department of Energy (DOE), National Energy Technology Laboratory,
is seeking cost-shared applications on behalf of the Office of Energy
Efficiency and Renewable Energys Building Technologies Program (BTP)
in accordance with 10 CFR part 420.
DOE is looking for BTP projects that more fully integrate deployment
and technical assistance activities through the following program
areas: Building America, Building Energy Codes, Energy Star and Rebuild
America.
This funding opportunity announcement is responsive to the BTPs
near-term goal of improving energy efficiency in new and existing
residential and commercial buildings by 20 percent to 40 percent above
the 2004 IECC or ASHRAE Standard 90.1-2004.
The focus of this announcement is to fund projects that provide
creative initiatives that increase energy savings in the residential
and commercial building sectors. States are encouraged to enter into
teaming arrangements with other State Energy Offices (SEOs), industry,
small businesses, educational institutions, non-profit organizations
and DOE national laboratories to develop projects that address
innovative ways to integrate Building America, Building Energy Codes,
Energy Star and Rebuild America.
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The Office of Basic Energy Sciences (BES) of the Office of Science
(SC), U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), in keeping with its mission to
assist in strengthening the Nation's scientific research enterprise
through the support of fundamental science and the experimental tools
to perform basic research, announces its interest in receiving
applications for basic research in the area of solar energy utilization.
This Notice solicits innovative basic research applications to
establish the scientific basis that underpins the efficient capture,
conversion, and utilization of solar energy in a cost-effective manner.
We seek to support outstanding fundamental research programs that will
lead to key discoveries and conceptual breakthroughs to make sunlight
as the practicable solution to meet our compelling need for clean,
abundant sources of energy.
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Applications due
Apr 21, 2006.
Wetland Program Development Grants (WPDGs) provide eligible applicants
an opportunity to conduct projects that promote the coordination and
acceleration of research, investigations, experiments, training,
demonstrations, surveys, and studies relating to the causes, effects,
extent, prevention, reduction, and elimination of water pollution.
While WPDGs can continue to be used by recipients to build and refine
any element of a comprehensive wetland program, proposals that address
one or more of the national and regional priorities may increase their
chances of being selected for award.
States, Tribes, local government agencies, and intertribal consortia
are eligible to apply under this announcement. Non-profit organizations
are not eligible to compete under this RFP. EPA Headquarters
administers the national non-profit competition apart from the Regional
local/state/tribe competitions and will issue a separate competitive
announcement in the future. In order to be eligible for funds through
this competition, Tribes must be federally recognized, although "Treatment as a State" status is not a requirement. Intertribal
consortia that meet the requirements of 40 CFR Part 35.504 is eligible
for direct funding. Intertribal consortia projects must be broad in
scope and encompass more than one State, Tribe, or local government.
Universities that are agencies of State government are eligible to
receive funds through this competition.
Universities that are not chartered as a part of State government are
not eligible for direct funding from EPA Regions. Universities must
include documentation showing that they are chartered as a part of
State government in their proposal. Projects must occur within the
states of EPA Region 5 specifically Illinois, Indiana, Michigan,
Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin. In the case of inter-jurisdictional
watershed projects, they must be primarily implemented in EPA Region 5.
This document describes the grant selection and award process for
eligible applicants interested in applying for WPDGs under the
competitive process. Implementation of wetland protection programs is
not an eligible activity under this announcement.
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Applications due
Jun 15, 2006 .
The Office of Biological and Environmental Research (OBER) of the
Office of Science (SC), U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), hereby
announces interest in receiving applications for research grants in the
Environmental Remediation Sciences Program (ERSP).
The goal of the ERSP is to support innovative, fundamental research
investigating coupled chemical, biological and physical processes
affecting the transport of DOE-relevant contaminants within the
subsurface at DOE sites leading to new or improved subsurface
remediation techniques and a sound foundation for remedial action
decisions important to long- term site stewardship.
This solicitation addresses several science elements previously
addressed under the Natural and Accelerated Bioremediation Research
(NABIR) program and the Environmental Management Science Program (EMSP)
and reflects the merger of these two programs into the ERSP.
Applications should address hypothesis-driven research to define
biologically-mediated and/or hydrogeochemical processes influencing the
form and mobility of DOE contaminants and provide the basis for
development of new remediation concepts or strategies for long term
stewardship. Applications should address the applicability of the
proposed research to DOE relevant contaminant transport processes
occurring in the field.
The environment of interest is the terrestrial subsurface below the
zone of root influence including both the vadose zone (unsaturated) and
the saturated zone (groundwater and sediments). Phytoremediation is not
addressed in this Notice.
Specific Science Elements of interest to this Notice include: 1)
Subsurface Biogeochemistry; 2) Subsurface Microbial Ecology and
Community Dynamics; 3) Innovative Field-scale Remediation and Long-Term
Stewardship Research; 4) Novel Measurement and Monitoring Concepts,
and; 5) Exploratory Research.
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Applications due
May 05, 2006
This program provides funding to graduate students in NSF- supported
science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines to
acquire additional skills that will broadly prepare them for
professional and scientific careers in the 21st century. Through
interactions with teachers in K-12 schools, graduate students can
improve communication and teaching skills while enriching STEM
instruction in K-12 schools.
Through this experience graduate students can gain a deeper
understanding of their own scientific research. In addition, the GK-12
program provides institutions of higher education with an opportunity
to make a permanent change in their graduate programs by incorporating
GK-12 like activities in the training of their STEM graduate students.
Expected outcomes include improved communication, teaching and team
building skills for the fellows; professional development opportunities
for K-12 teachers; enriched learning for K-12 students; and
strengthened partnerships between institutions of higher education and
local school districts.
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The National Center of Excellence on Sustainable Materials and
Renewable Technologies (SMART) at Arizona State University in
partnership with the U.S. EPA’s Heat Island Reduction Initiative, will
host the first national Cool Pavement Conference in Tempe, Arizona,
April 24, 2006. People with an interest in urban planning,
transportation, pavement design and engineering, sustainability, and
environmental protection, in particular, are expected to attend.
Agenda topics include:
- Application of cool materials in urban regions,
- Performance characteristics of existing and emerging urban materials,
- Material optimization models and life cycle costing,
- Emerging regulations, policies and incentives for sustainable
- materials,and
- National and international financing of urban infrastructure projects.
Attendees will be able to tour the National Center of Excellence SMART
Materials laboratories and the 3-D 270 degree Decision Theater--one of
only two in the United States. The registration fee is $120, or $25 for
students, and includes lunch. Vendors can also register to display
sustainable products.
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This manual, produced in 2006 by Conservation International and George
Washington University, provides field practitioners with tools to
perform rapid assessments and analysis of potential ecotourism
destinations. [Source: GreenBiz.com]
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An estimated 460,000 tons of carbon dioxide emissions were cut during
the summer months in 2005 as a result of Japan's "Cool Biz" campaign,
which encouraged workers to wear lightweight business attire. [Source:
GreenBiz.com, 3/15/06]
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BOMA (Building Owners and Managers Association) International is
launching a training initiative help the commercial real estate
industry counter rising energy costs and reduce energy consumption.
[Source: GreenBiz.com, 3/16/06]
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2006
Laura L. Barnes.
Last update:
4/6/2006; 2:30:11 PM.
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