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The Job Training Incentive Program (JTIP) board approved $243,528 in funds at their October meeting, creating 46 new jobs and providing funding for the training of two additional positions.

Launching the week after Global Climate Week, mokugift's GreenLifestyle daily quiz and green fact-sharing application on Yahoo!'s homepage empowers up to 118 million* individuals to make every week Global Climate Week. By taking three daily quiz questions, users can learn new environmental facts every day in just a few minutes. With a few more clicks of the mouse, they can challenge a few friends to a quiz and pleasantly surprise them with new green knowledge. For busy users, with a single click of the mouse, they can broadcast a daily environmental fact to friends that use Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! Messenger 10 through Yahoo! Updates. Anyone can add Mokugift's GreenLifestyle app to his or her Yahoo! homepage exploring the My Favorites application gallery on Yahoo.com.

(Picture: Acre news agency.) The Brazilian government has inaugurated yesterday the first factory to produce condoms with latex from Amazon trees. The company, called Natex, is located in Xapuri, in Acre State (Northwest Brazil). According to Acre's news agency,

3BL Media Announces Agreement With Thomson Reuters; Provides CSR-Related Multimedia Content for Thomson Reuters Financial Video Programming, Including 'theCSRminute,' a Daily Video Digest of News Focusing on Corporate Social Responsibility.

New legislation has just passed by Barack Obama that requires every business in the U.S. to have a Sustainability Officer or a Green Officer. One of the jobs these Green Officers is to develop a sustainability performance plans. Also, businesses must create a committee on federal sustainability. Green Officer Training can help companies meet the demands of this new executive order.

My1Stop.com® demonstrated its commitment to being a leader in plastic card printing innovations by adding new PVC material options to their plastic card printing offering. The new PVC materials can be ordered through customer service or instantly priced, and ordered, online. The PVC material option is now available on many plastic card printing products including plastic gift cards, plastic loyalty cards and many other plastic cards. Customers can experience the expanded product offering at My1Stop.com.

The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) in the US has approved a $590m (€482.1m) electric transmission project that will assist in enhancing the Houston region's import capacity from other parts of the state.

3BL (Triple Bottom Line) Media and the Centre for Sustainability and Excellence (CSE) announced today a strategic partnership which will provide CSE clients with access to the world's largest corporate social responsibility and sustainability news distribution network.

From concentrated solar power to floating wind turbines and from printable organic solar cells to biomass gasification, power-technology.com picks six of the most promising new green power technologies. Concentrating solar power technology Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) technology involving the use of mirrors to focus sunlight onto a receiver that captures and converts the solar energy into heat for electricity generation has been in use since 1980s.

We round up the most innovative oil spill recovery technologies including a chemically modified nanocellulose sponge from Switzerland's Empa, new research into bacteria from the University of East Anglia, and other technological and theoretical breakthroughs. Rod James investigates.

Renewable energy now forms one-third of the world's total energy capacity, according to a new report by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). The agency found that 171GW of renewable energy was added to the global system in 2018, with an annual increase of 7.9%. Two-thirds of new power generation capacity added in 2018 came from renewables.

EthicalandGreen.net is a resource for all who seek to translate concerns over the climate and compassion for humanity into real-time changes in their lifestyle. A selection of the top news stories of interest along with a full mashup of what is happening in the green and ethical world, you are sure to find something of interest.

The University of Toronto Edward S Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering researchers in Canada have developed and demonstrated a new class of solar-sensitive nanoparticle.

Areva has begun operations at its molten salt energy storage demonstration plant in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

When most of us think about recycling, we usually think about the standard recycled items like plastic bottles, soda cans and paper. But there are actually hundreds of other materials out there that can be recycled into new and interesting items.

Corporate Social Responsible News: Newmont Mining + Dow Jones Sustainability Index; Greenergy 2030's Business Alliance; China CSR Research Center's Rankings

Corporate Social Responsible News: Clinton Global Initiative Partners Green for All + Living Cities; Proctor & Gamble's Sustainability Programs; UN Global Compact's Climate Change Conference Run Up