EnergyLink Launch Solar Panel Quotes Service

EnergyLink have launched a new web site to provide customers with three Solar panel quotes from fully vetted and approved installers in their local area. This avoids rogue traders and can save up to 75% off the cost. Shopping around for Solar panels has become increasingly important following the withdrawal of Government grant funding and [...]

Pineapplefish Luxury Villas Go Green

Pineapplefish, the luxury vacation company are leading the way in renewable energy on Anna Maria Island, having just completed the most extensive installation of Photovoltaic solar panels for electricity generation, and hot water heaters in their luxury vacation rentals ever seen on the island.
(PRWEB) July 29, 2010
Pineapplefish (1), the luxury Anna Maria rentals vacation company [...]

UK falls 75 percent short on 2010 renewable energy target

(CLICK GREEN) - The UK Government has fallen well short on its renewable energy targets, according to a report released by the National Audit Office (NAO).
The Whitehall spending watchdog blames a lack of clear co-ordination for the missed target of generating 10 percent of UK energy from renewable sources.
According to the [...]

Six-month shelf life for wine in plastic bottles

(TELEGRAPH) - Supermarkets have claimed that wine in plastic bottles remains unchanged for up to a year.
But a year-long study suggests that wine stored in bottles made of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) – the plastic commonly used for fizzy drink and water bottles – begins [...]

UN report warns of economic impact of biodiversity loss

(GUARDIAN) - The “alarming” rate at which species are being lost could have a severe effect on humanity, conservationists warned today. Targets set eight years ago by governments to reduce biodiversity loss by 2010 have not been met, experts confirmed at a UN meeting in Nairobi, Kenya.
The third Global Biodiversity Outlook [...]

Widespread Toxic Ash From Icelandic Volcano Threatens Groundwater, Crops and Livestock for Millions; DynGlobal Offers Water Filtration that Removes Deadly Fluoride

DynGlobal LLC, a leading manufacturer of scalable water filtration solutions that remove deadly heavy metals and minerals such as arsenic, lead, and fluoride from water to non-detectable levels, alerts the families and communities in countries affected by the Icelandic volcano eruptions it can aid in the cleanup of water sources contaminated with potentially dangerous levels [...]

Social Search May Galvanise Organic Results

The addition of real time social media factors into results on search engines could serve to galvanise the quality of organic search according to PR, search and social media agency Punch Communications.
Leicestershire, UK (PRWEB) April 18, 2010 — The addition of real time social media factors into results on search engines could serve to galvanise [...]

Climate charge

(FT) - One of the key controversies over the hacked e-mails from the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit was that the scientists’ apparent reluctance to publicly share data and methodologies. One of the reasons they gave was that some of their work used data from other countries’ meteorological agencies, [...]

Arctic ice increased during freezing winter

(TELEGRAPH) - Unusually cold weather, caused by the same patterns that have given Britain its coldest winter for decades, has resulted in levels of ice cover in line with longer-term averages for the first time since 2001.
The trend was illustrated in figures for March published by the [...]

Anger as coal power plant bid goes ahead

(NEW SCOTSMAN) - PLANS for a new £3 billion coal-fired power station in Scotland will be lodged tomorrow, prompting warnings of mass protests by green groups.
Ayrshire Power infuriated environmental organisations yesterday when confirming its intention to build a new coal plant at Hunterston in Ayrshire.

A leading Scottish environmentalist predicted this [...]