Festival Promotes Sustainable Consumption

About 150 businesses and microenterprises and rural producers eco artisans gathered at the Fountain of Xochipilli to jump-start the first festival of organic products and for sustainable consumption, organized by environmentalists and Green Pages New Ventures.
Pots made of glass or plastic bottles, solar water heaters, steam washing machines for cars, organic soaps and even recycled [...]

A Fair Held In Rio De Janeiro Reunites The Technicians Of The Future

Over 600 students from 13 countries competing this week in Rio de Janeiro in a scientific Olympiads in showing their skills in various technical areas and are a showcase for future employment.
The competition, which began Tuesday and ends Saturday, is divided into two parts, the Knowledge Olympics, involving 562 young Brazilians in vocational courses and [...]

100 Most Sustainable Companies

It was presented at the Davos Forum the Global Index of the 100 Most Sustainable Companies in the World, which examines different aspects of the world’s largest companies, among which include:
• transparency • sustainable use of resources • the capacity for innovation • aspects of social responsibility and corporate governance
To select the companies, “Corporate Knights” [...]

New Green Technology in Manhattan

An historic breakthrough in concrete production is imposed on construction sites throughout Manhattan.
The iCrete System (TM) offers record strength as well as dramatic environmental benefits and cost efficiencies when used in all major construction applications, including commercial projects, residential and infrastructure.
Prestigious towers projects
ICrete system was chosen for a variety of projects most prestigious towers in [...]

Watermill Gets Water From The Air

Watermill is an interesting eco invention which serves to collect drinking water from the air.
Its performance on the basis of an absorber air absorbs excess moisture from the air to turn it into drinking water through an ultraviolet light sterilizer that purifies the water removing all the bacteria and toxins.
Jonathan Ritchey and Rick Howard were [...]

Green, But Expensive Energy

How green is environmental economics? British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, announced Friday a plan to expand offshore wind valued at 100,000 million pounds. The project is part of the Executive’s strategy to ensure that by 2020 UK generates 15% of its energy from renewable sources.
The business opportunities are involved: the State Crown, the authority that [...]

Solar Energy Can Transform CO2 into Fuel

Methods have been developed with ultraviolet light to convert CO2 or carbon dioxide into fuel, but now a new technology that achieved by using solar energy. At the University of Pennsylvania developed a nanotechnology that can convert solar radiation reaching us in the form of natural light into a useful fuel.
The technology consists of titanium dioxide [...]

Alternative Energy Eficiency

In 1997 at a meeting held by the major countries in Kyoto, discussed the current global environmental outlook and come. From this meeting came off the need for radical change on the part of states to curb global climate change. This was signed the Kyoto Protocol, the first and only major binding environmental treaty for [...]

Stunning Video of a Coal Power Plant

Have you ever asked yourself how does a coal power plant look?
Well, thanks to our friend on twitter, Jeff Grewe, we can see first hand how much a coal power plant pollutes with his compilation of timelapse videos of a power plant in Iowa.
This is with out a doubt one of the greatest videos I [...]

Chinese Energy Efforts

One of the most important environmental efforts taking place in the energy sector. And is that electricity production is the Achilles heel of China’s development, totally dependent on the one resource that offers its vast geography in abundance: coal.
This hydrocarbon, the most polluting of all currently supplies over 60 percent of the needs of China. [...]