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Its 9am on a Wednesday morning and you find yourself preparing for your day with a cup of coffee in hand and your daily Inhabitat Digest open on your desktop. But today is no ordinary day. Today when your boss catches you in the act of reading our blog instead of working, you can tell him or her “Don’t worry, I’m researching a new green office strategy, which will save us money and create a better working environment,” or something to that effect. While this may seem like a convenient excuse, we know our suggestions for creating a greener workspace will help you do just that: to take your love of environmental issues and infuse them into your work routine, those of your colleagues and the practices of your company.

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When faced with the need to develop additional sources of energy, the Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation recently decided that its best option was not to build conventional power plants. Instead, the electricity provider opted to fulfill its energy needs by building Africa’s largest wind farm! The 120 megawatt Ashegoba plant in north Ethiopea will provide for 15 percent of the nation’s present energy capacity.

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Representatives of industry, the research community and the European institutions launched the €1 billion (US$1.357 billion) Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Joint Technology Initiative (JTI) (earlier post) at an event in Brussels, Belgium on 14 October. Over the next six years,... Mike Millikin

ASTM publishes new biodiesel standards
Biodiesel Magazine, ND - 6 minutes ago
By Erin Voegele More widespread usage of biodiesel took a step forward Oct. 13 when the ASTM International published approved standards for stronger ...

Mazda Motor Corporation has delivered the first of approximately 30 RX-8 Hydrogen RE (Rotary Engine) vehicles to Norway’s HyNor project as a validation vehicle. This marks the first time that a Mazda hydrogen rotary vehicle has been put into regular... Mike Millikin

UQM Technologies has introduced two high voltage DC-to-AC inverters with continuous output ratings of 3 kW and 5 Kw. The high-efficiency inverters, which have an output efficiency of up to 93%, convert input voltages ranging from 250 to 450 volts... Mike Millikin

Biodiesel president becomes trucking group chairman
Biodiesel Magazine, ND - 28 minutes ago
By Ryan C. Christiansen The new chairman for the American Trucking Associations is also president of the 5 MMgy Integrity Biofuels biodiesel plant in ...

NREL updates Biodiesel Handling and Use Guide
Biodiesel Magazine, ND - 46 minutes ago
By Erin Voegele The fourth edition of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s Biodiesel Handling and Use Guide is now available. ...

Fiat has introduced the Grande Punto Natural Power, a new dual fuel (gasoline/natural gas) model. Mike Millikin

Biodiesel tax credit extended
Southeast Farm Press - 1 hour ago
The American Soybean Association (ASA) is celebrating final passage of legislation that includes an extension of the biodiesel tax incentive for one year ...

Water consumption (left stacked bars read on left axis) and withdrawal (right stacked bars read on right axis) in gallons of water per mile (gal/mile) for various fuels for light duty vehicles. Water use from mining and farming is designated... Mike Millikin

Biodiesel fuel pump opens in Burlington
The Pendulum, NC - 1 hour ago
“The biofuel we produce is B99.9; meaning 99.9 percent of the fuel is biodiesel,” Johnson said. The Burlington location is the eighth in the Triangle to ...
Waste not, want not Chapel Hill News
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GreenGold Ray Energies (Symbol: GRYE) Growing and Expanding to USA
CNNMoney.com - 2 hours ago
The company is purchasing the first 25 acres of farm lands expanding its jatropaha plantations in the USA GRYE will construct a Biodiesel oil conversion ...

Currently slated for construction in Singapore, the EDITT Tower will be a paragon of “Ecological Design In The Tropics”. Designed by TR Hamzah & Yeang and sponsored by the National University of Singapore, the 26-story high-rise will boast photovoltaic panels, natural ventilation, and a biogas generation plant all wrapped within an insulating living wall that covers half of its surface area. The verdant skyscraper was designed to increase its location’s bio-diversity and rehabilitate the local ecosystem in Singapore’s ‘zeroculture’ metropolis.

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2008-10-15 Baltic Holding Company ceases biodiesel productio...
New Energy Matters (subscription), UK - 3 hours ago
A local newspaper Latvijas Avize reported that the company had stopped biodiesel production in August and quoted a spokesperson for the company as citing ...

Airbus and Pratt & Whitney have launched joint flight testing of the PurePower PW1000G Geared Turbofan engine (earlier post) with the first on an Airbus-owned A340 test aircraft in Toulouse, France. Mike Millikin

Examine the Potential of the Canadian Biofuels Market with This ...
MarketWatch - 5 hours ago
Biodiesel fuels are oxygenated organic compounds -- methyl or ethyl esters -- derived from a variety of renewable sources such as vegetable oil, animal fat, ...
Diamond I's US-BX Enters Mock Trading Period International Business Times
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The DuPont-Danisco cellulosic ethanol joint venture (earlier post), DuPont Danisco Cellulosic Ethanol LLC (DDCE), has broken ground for its first pilot-scale biorefinery and state-of-the-art biofuels research and development facility in Vonore, Tenn. The joint venture has partnered with the University... Mike Millikin

Amyris is engineering yeast to produce renewable hydrocarbon fuels. Click to enlarge. Brazil’s Votorantim Novos Negócios (New Business) has made a strategic equity investment in Amyris, a synthetic biology company focusing on renewable hydrocarbon fuels (earlier post). This investment supports... Mike Millikin

Alexena Cayless of British design collective Farm Designs recently exhibited her wonderful fly-tipped furniture collection at Eco Age and Beyond the Valley in London. Alexena scours the streets for unloved and discarded furnishings and then gives them a brand new lease of life. These white-washed pieces serves as blank canvases for Alexana, who is interested in the interaction of human memory and furniture.

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