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Next phase of GE’s $200M challenge: the Eco home of the future
GE has announced a new phase of its $200 million open innovation challenge - the "Powering Your Home" Challenge, which begins January 18 and seeks the best ideas for harnessing and managing energy at home.
GE announced this new investment phase at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, where the company is demonstrating its ecomagination home technologies. The global challenge invites technologists, entrepreneurs and start-ups to share their best ideas and come together to build and improve the eco home of the future with new technologies.
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Meeting the need for green skills in Europe`s job market
For a new green economy to be successful, governments should support the development of green skills in the labour market, according to a new report. This could be achieved by improving or adding to the existing core skills of workers, while mainstreaming environmental awareness into education and training.
The EU has recognised the need to move towards a low-carbon and resource efficient economy and has responded with the new Europe 2020 strategy. A number of environmental and climate change strategies will also help achieve this goal, such as the Strategy for Sustainable Development.
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Base Structures Ltd
With a 10 year history in high quality, fabric engineered products, Base Structures has applied the same level of care to the development of its biogas storage domes. A leading tensile fabric structures contractor, Base Structures provides a complete service to the fabric structures industry from foundations, design, manufacturing to installation and maintenance. With 2000m2 premises and a large, experienced team, Base is capable of both large scale, fast track projects and processing up to 30,000m2 of fabric per month. Base’ latest product incorporates all its expertise to offer an alternative UK manufactured membrane storage dome to the bio energy marketplace.
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- UK inks fresh low carbon technology alliance with China
The UK has today confirmed it will develop formal partnerships with China in an attempt to accelerate low-carbon growth in both countries through the ...
- Algae Biofuel Spin-Off: Safer New Foods That Can Prevent Genetic Damage
A number of new ventures, funded with millions of dollars by large oil companies and major investors, are growing algae to produce biodiesel, jet fuel ...
- BP Gulf oil spill final report backs British safety model
The final report from the presidential commission investigating the causes of BP`s Gulf of Mexico disaster is expected to recommend today that the US ...
- Incoming governor threatens New Mexico`s regional cap-and-trade plans
The new Republican governor of New Mexico, Susana Martinez, has wasted no time acting on a campaign promise to roll back environmental regulations, this ...
- China Sunergy Signs 7 MW Solar Module Supply Contract for Nanjing South Railway Station`s Solar Roof Project
China Sunergy Co., Ltd., (Nasdaq: CSUN) ("China Sunergy" or the "Company") a specialized solar cell and module manufacturer based in Nanjing, ...
- Report: Japan promises $1.6bn clean tech exports investment
A Japanese government fund will invest as much as 130 billion yen (£1bn) in overseas clean tech projects involving Japanese companies, the Nikkei ...
- Republicans launch swift attack on Obama`s climate change agenda
As widely anticipated, Republicans in the House of Representatives have wasted no time with their efforts to neuter the Environmental Protection Agency ...
- Ireland funding Wave energy technology
Wave energy developer Carnegie Wave Energy has signed the formal funding agreement with the Irish Government`s Sustainable Energy Association (SEAI) for ...
- CODA Holdings Raises $76 Million in Series D Initial Closing
SANTA MONICA, Calif., CODA Holdings, a leading developer of Lithium-ion advanced battery systems and all-electric vehicles, ...
- CBS`s EcoMedia launches the `EcoAd`
With Every EcoAd, Media Dollars are Leveraged to Fund Green Initiatives that Create Jobs, Save Taxpayer Money and Cut Carbon Emissions
EcoMedia announced ...
- Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) carbon offsets top 500 million mark
The new year passed its first carbon market milestone this week, as the UN announced it has issued 500 million offset credits under its Clean Development ...
- Reaction to UK flood defence cuts
Under the previous UK government, spending on flood defences rose 33% in the four years to 2010/11. The new coalition government have however cut flood-defence ...
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