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Elumin8 partners with Chinese lighting giant to develop green lighting technologies
 

Elumin8 Ltd has formed a strategic partnership with Chinese lighting company Tianjin Gongda Hiyu Solid State Lighting Co. Ltd. (Hiyu). The agreement is to develop advanced LED street lighting applications and distribute across Europe, Middle East & Asia. HiYu is an associate of the Climate Control Committee – part of the Climate Group.

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21 Changes Proposed for Standard 90.1
 

Public input to help shape the technical requirements in Standard 90.1 is being sought through 21 proposed addenda, which could become part of the 2010 standard. ANSI/ASHRAE/IESNA Standard 90.1-2007, Energy Standard for Buildings Except Low-Rise Residential Buildings, provides minimum requirements for the energy-efficient design of buildings except low-rise residential buildings. The proposed addenda cover a range of topic areas, including daylighting, air leakage, EER and IEER values and requirements for VRF air conditioners and heat pumps.

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EPA unveils Great Lakes restoration plan
 

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson has released an action plan to guide the Obama Administration’s efforts to restore the Great Lakes. The action plan, which the administrator unveiled at a Sunday meeting with governors from the Great Lakes states, lays out the most urgent threats facing the Great Lakes and sets out goals, objectives, and key actions over the next five years to help restore the lakes.

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Serious Materials selected to upgrade Empire State Building windows
 

Johnson Controls, a provider of energy efficient and sustainable products, services, and solutions, has selected Serious Materials to super-insulate more than 6,500 windows for the Empire State Building’s energy efficiency retrofit project.

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'The rush to renewables'
 

"With energy legislation bogged down in Congress, state governments are increasingly courting renewable energy companies with stringent new rules mandating that a share of their state's electricity come from renewable sources. The mandates, known as 'renewable portfolio standards,' require that utilities either produce renewable energy themselves or buy it from green energy producers." READ FULL ARTICLE.

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Gore: If only wishing could make it so...
 

"I, for one, genuinely wish that the climate crisis were an illusion. But unfortunately, the reality of the danger we are courting has not been changed by the discovery of at least two mistakes in the thousands of pages of careful scientific work over the last 22 years by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. In fact, the crisis is still growing because..." READFULL ARTICLE

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VIDEO: IBM's Pulse 2010: The time is now to stop infrastructure waste
 
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