Người đứng đầu xưởng thiết kế của Mercedes-Benz tại Bắc Mỹ, Hubert Lee nói: "Là một nhà phát minh xe hơi, chúng tôi muốn minh họa tầm nhìn của một phương tiện vận chuyển trong tương lai, được chế tạo và hoạt động cộng sinh với thiên nhiên. Mercedes-Benz BIOME là một phép lai công nghệ thiên nhiên và nó sẽ là một phần trong hệ sinh thái của chúng ta. BIOME sẽ "nảy mầm" và "sinh trưởng" như những chiếc lá trên cây."

The reason for this situation is that investors do not pay attention to energy conservation methods and their advantages to the socio-economic development. According to the architect Nguyen Tan Van, the chairman of the Vietnam Architect Association, we are not clearly aware of “green architecture” benefits. Therefore, when building, investors do not take advantages of natural conditions and the ancestors’ experiences in the field of construction in tropical region. We need to create a friendlier architecture.

Clean Currents will partner with Solar Cookers International to purchase and distribute the solar cookers, which will address the locals’ basic needs in boiling water and cooking food. Residents in the mid-Atlantic region who will purchase wind power off the grid can send solar cooking kits to locals in Haiti as Christmas gifts through Clean Current’s annual holiday giving campaign.

As countries such as China, the United States and Germany plow billions of tax dollars into renewable energy sources such as wind and solar power, Canadian energy companies say the federal government urgently needs to develop a national strategy to grab a piece of the global clean-energy market, which attracted $162 billion US in investment last year.

The creative juices of designers are now flowing into mice and keyboards that are becoming sleeker, smaller and more power-efficient. Microsoft and Logitech have blended eco-friendly technology and space-saving designs in their new mouse and keyboard products.

Phó tổng thống Joe Biden vừa công bố một loạt các chương trình khuyến khích, nhằm giúp đỡ những người có thu nhập trung bình ở Mỹ sử dụng năng lượng hiệu quả hơn tại gia đình và gia tăng sự phát triển trong công việc. Những hoạt động có 2 mục tiêu: giúp đỡ người dân duy trì chi phí năng lượng ở mức thấp và đặt nền tảng cho nền công nghiệp năng lượng hiệu quả tại gia lớn mạnh hơn.

After successes of peanut sowing machine and rubber latex harvesting machine, Le Thanh Binh always wants to have more inventions to contribute to the country’s development. Recently, he successfully produced a sea wave power electricity generator. This machine took part in the Vietnam Exhibition on Technologies and Equipment 2010 held in Quang Ninh Province.

One of my favorite science fiction ideas is in a short story called Light of Other Days about something called “slow glass.” Light took decades to pass through. In this story, the idea was that people could buy glass windows that took so long for the light to pass through, that they could nostalgically watch long gone scenes, such as their children playing outside as toddlers long after they had gone off to college, or green fields with horses where now ugly cities grew.

Sự suy thoái kinh tế không ảnh hưởng nhiều đến Công viên công nghệ Edenvale ở Thung lũng Silicon, phần phía Nam của khu vực vịnh San Francisco ở Bắc California (Mỹ). Nhiều công ty đặt trụ sở ở đó vẫn không ngừng mở rộng hoạt động trong 18 tháng qua.

Snohomish County is pledging to cut energy use at its facilities by 10 percent as part of a Snohomish County PUD’s “Energy Challenge” campaign. The county is joining more than 150 local businesses and nearly 3,000 residential utility customers who have vowed to make comparable energy cuts. The goal is to save money and cut greenhouse gases, while reducing overall demand on the PUD’s energy supply.

CMU aims to save more than $600,000 over the next two years by reopening a gas turbine at the Central Energy Facility. The gas turbine was installed in 1991, but was shut down in 2002 because it was not economically efficient, said Steve Lawrence, associate vice president of Facilities

While some members of Congress seem to think that spending federal dollars on local projects is a bad thing, hundreds of farmers and rural business owners are eagerly taking the opportunity to improve their operations through federal clean energy loans and grants totalling more than $30 million. The funds, administered through the U.S. Department of Agriculture, will pay for 516 projects that install renewable energy equipment and improve energy efficiency at agricultural operations.

This thought constantly runs through the mind of Casey Lauer, director of energy and environment at K-State. It is a topic that is becoming debated more and more, and Lauer is one of many people on campus trying to figure out how the university can save money through decreased energy use. In Forum Hall in the K-State Student Union on Monday, Lauer and others spoke on the topic of energy consevation.

Smart metering solutions will allow the introduction of time-based tariffs and provide consumers with information about their electricity use in real time. But installing the equipment in each household will do nothing unless consumers are given adequate information about how to make use of them.

On November 12, the Specialized Science and Technology Council of Soc Trang Province held a meeting to assess the draft of a project aiming to build an improved model of biogas plants to generate power for use by livestock breeding farms in Chau Thanh District. This project is presided over by the Soc Trang Center for Science and Technology Application and headed by engineer Duong Hoang Van, the deputy director of the center’s Technical Department.

The 30th India International Trade Fair (IITF 2010) themed ‘Clean and Energy Efficient Technology, Products and Services’ was opened in Pragati Maidan, New Delhi, on November 14. Vietnamese Ambassador to India Nguyen Thanh Tan cut the ribbon to inaugurate the Vietnam Pavilion at the fair.

Today Osram Sylvania, a North American lighting manufacturer, announced that it will be commercially producing an LED light bulb designed to replace a 60-watt incandescent bulb. Millions of 60-watt incandescent bulbs are currently sold each year, but according to the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, these light bulbs must be phased out by 2014.

EnerNoc EfficiencySmart Energy Management Software cuts energy costs by 15% without undertaking any efficiency projects. EnerNoc, a well-established efficiency software company, released a new line of energy management software yesterday that the company's Senior Vice President of Marketing and Sales, Gregg Dixon, claims can help companies cut their energy costs by 15% without undertaking any efficiency projects.

Ở Việt Nam mới chỉ có 1 công trình công quyền đầu tiên được giải thưởng Kiến trúc xanh BCI Green Design Award 2010 do BCI Asia trao tặng (công trình trụ sở UBND & Khối QLNN thị xã Châu Đốc). Do thiết kế dựa theo điều kiện tự nhiên (tận dụng hướng giao thông đường bộ và đường thủy) nên công trình có 70% thời gian trong ngày không dùng đèn chiếu sáng.

The year of 2010 is considered an important year in the development of Petro Vietnam in particular and of the entire petroleum industry in general.Besides ensuring the completion of the production plan of the year, the Company is also facing challenges in implementing targets in the final year of the five year plan 2006-2010 with volatile external conditions.