Eco Ahead

GT Solar Signs $46.8 Million Contract with Top Green Energy Technologies

admin — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 08:16:20 +0000

Merrimack, New Hampshire, United States — (Business Wire India) — Friday, October 17, 2008 10:42:00 AM Adds Major New Customer – – Expands Product and Services Offerings; Sells First Integrated Support Module for Reactors and Converters – – Secures the Company’s First Polysilicon Production Equipment and Services Agreement in Taiwan – GT Solar International, Inc. (NASDAQ: SOLR), a global provider [...]

‘Teach children how to use natural resources’

admin — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 08:11:28 +0000

Ahmedabad, Oct 15 (IANS) School students should be taught how to use natural resources so that they don’t run out, Ahmedabad-based Consumer Education and Research Centre (CERC) said here Wednesday. CERC called on the government to implement the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) guidelines on ‘Education for Sustainable Consumption in Formal Education’. “The coordinated day of action [...]

‘New method can meet 20 percent of US fuel needs from waste products’

admin — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 08:11:04 +0000

Washington, Oct 15 (IANS) A flexible new approach on production of alternative fuels from solid and agricultural wastes could supply a fifth of fuels required in transportation in US annually, says a new study. The method offers a potential solution to problems that might be created by increasing production of ethanol with conventional methods, which use [...]

Plastic electronic newspaper to be launched in Britain next year

admin — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 08:10:37 +0000

London, Oct 15 (IANS) A British-designed electronic newspaper - made out of plastic and no larger than a table mat - is to hit the market next year as an alternative to, well, paper itself, according to a report Wednesday. The new kind of newspaper has been conceived by Cambridge University scientists, who pioneered the idea [...]