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CNN’s Eco Solutions features green solutions for new carpets, batteries powered by sugar for everyday electronics, and even solar powered media players. Watch this video to see for yourself
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President Elect Obama named his Energy Team which includes Dr. Steven Chu (a Nobel Prize-winning physicist who has been developing carbon-neutral technology) as energy secretary and Carol Browner (former head of the Environmental Protection Agency) as the top official on energy and the environment. The announcement is seen by many, including Boone Pickens, as a [...]
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“Cleantech is any technology that reduces natural resource consumption.”
- Joyce Ferris, Philadelphia-based VC
Ernst & Young uses the following definitions to classify the cleantech industry and its sub-sectors:
Clean technology encompasses a diverse range of innovative products and services that optimize the use of natural resources or reduce the negative environmental impact of their use while creating [...]
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Vancouver Island Technology Park (VITP) welcomes Alberta Research Council (ARC) as its newest tenant. ARC has opened its first British Columbia-based office at VITP to access Victoria’s intellectual resources and expertise in water management, and to stimulate new opportunities for technology development and transfer across western Canada.
ARC has a water management research and development team [...]
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Carmanah Technologies Corporation (TSX: CMH) today introduced a wireless solar-powered flashing beacon suitable for a range of ITS (intelligent traffic systems) roadway applications. The R838 wireless ITS solar flasher incorporates all components - including solar modules, LEDs (light emitting diodes), and wireless activation technology - within a compact and durable stand-alone device.
Thanks to a partnership [...]
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SkyPower, Canada’s largest renewable energy developer and its joint venture partner, SunEdison, North America’s largest solar energy services provider, announced they have secured financing with Nord/LB for a 9 megawatt (MW) solar power project being developed by a joint venture between the two companies in Ontario.
The 9 MW First Light project, is being built on [...]
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The first eco-friendly billboard will be in Times Square and powered by the sun and the wind.The billboard will be powered by wind turbines and when there is no sun and wind, the billboard will go dark as there is no back up generator. Its a good thing the sign’s owner is ok with this [...]
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Carmanah receives CanSIA Award for “Jean Canfield Building” Solar Power System
Carmanah Technologies today received the CanSIA “Solar PV Project of the Year Award” for a grid-tied solar power system installed on the Jean Canfield Building in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. In accepting the award at the Canadian Solar Industries Association (CanSIA) conference in Toronto earlier [...]
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