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The solar panels are nowadays used for the residential purpose as the electricity bills are emerging a lot to bring the affordable power for the remote areas where there is no electricity...

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

We have a huge database of installers from across the UK, which enables us to get you the best Heat Pump at the best price possible!

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.

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.

Luke Wilson tells Melissa McGinnis that he conserves by drinking beer from the tap vs. using bottles or cans, and recycles whether at home or on the go. A player in the Charlie Hoffman Foundation pro-am golf tournament, Luke Wilson also shows his support for recycling and conserving by sharing his thoughts with Greenopolis TV.

Using scraps from leftover sewing projects, and of all places, the dog groomers!

With so much information out there about global warming and the effects that are causing natural disasters, is there anything we as individuals can do to make a difference? Yep! You don't need to move mountains, but a small pebble can really make ripples that can create positive changes world wide. Here's a few "pebbles" you can use today!

These must begin with research. Water usage must be measured "down to the last drop." Enterprise-wide and facility-based water consumption must be accurately gauged using reports, meters and software analysis.

The Centre for Sustainability and Excellence (CSE) in North America successfully extended the momentum of corporate training in CSR and Sustainability by hosting its CSR Practitioners' Workshop in the US on September 1-2, 2009.

As part of its rebranding effort, SDialogue (formerly SRB Marketing) is currently running its $10,000 "S Contest," and using audio and video to promote the contest to other organizations with a sustainability story to tell. It's also giving participants multimedia options for entering - participants can enter the contest with a short written argument for why they should be chosen at the firm's website or Facebook page, or can add or substitute a video at its YouTube page. The winner gets $10,000 worth of sustainability strategy and communications services.

Last winter, my husband Dan and I noticed we were beginning to struggle in our quest for fresh, local food. As a Californian learning to endure my first Boston winter, I wanted more variety in our produce. At the same time Dan, a culinary school student, was learning more and more about the role of things like corn syrup and stabilizers in processed food. Between the two of us, we often ended up wondering what we could do to ensure that what we put into our bodies was healthy, fresh and ultimately unprocessed. So we took up cooking more and expanded our repertoire to include items like homemade bread, chicken stock, ice cream and others. Still, in hindsight we relied more often than we would have liked on cheap meat, poultry and dairy - often because it was what we could afford.

According to C.K. Prahalad, a professor of corporate strategy at the Ross School of Business of the University of Michigan, corporations seeking to create new markets addressing the needs of the billions of poor people living at the bottom of the economic pyramid can - and should - use that effort to drive sustainability and innovation within their own ranks.

What is the Pickens plan for energy and can it wean us off of imported oil.