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December 2006 Press Releases LARGEST-EVER NATURE CONSERVANCY ACQUISITION IN RHODE ISLAND ADDS TO PAWCATUCK BORDERLANDS PERSERVATION PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, December 15, 2006 --/WORLD-WIRE/--The Nature Conservancy, along with local, state and federal partners, has acquired the 970-acre Phebe M. Shepard Estate property in the Pawcatuck Borderlands, a vast area of open, largely-forested land that straddles the Rhode Island and Connecticut border. GREENMAN TECHNOLOGIES REPORTS FOURTH QUARTER AND YEAR ENDING SEPTEMBER 30, 2006 SAVAGE, Minnesota, December 14, 2006 --/WORLD-WIRE/-- GreenMan Technologies, Inc. (OTCBB: GMTI), www.greenman.biz a leading recycler of over 12 million scrap tires per year in the United States, today announced results for the three and twelve months ended September 30, 2006. GREEN BUILDING EXCHANGE TO OPEN FIRST-EVER BUSINESS AND EDUCATION CENTER DEDICATED TO ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY BUILDING PRACTICES REDWOOD CITY, California December 14, 2006 --/WORLD-WIRE/-- On February 10th, 2007, Green Building Exchange will open a 55,000 square foot exhibition-marketplace facility in Redwood City, California. This unique hive-like model will be the first of its kind, dedicated solely to the business of sustainable, "green" building. CANADIAN MAN BELIEVES 'HE CAN BEAT CANCER' TÄGERWILEN, Switzerland, December 12, 2006 --/WORLD-WIRE/-- Kelly Barrows, a Stucco Contractor from the city of Nanaimo in Vancouver Island, Canada, wants to tell everyone who is suffering from cancer that his colon cancer did a complete positive turnaround in a little over two weeks after eating Marine Phytoplankton. C&A FLOORCOVERINGS USES RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCE AS FUEL BREAKTHROUGH TECHNOLOGY SAFER AND ENVIRONMENTALLY SOUND DALTON, Georgia, December 11, 2006 --/WORLD-WIRE/-- C&A Floorcoverings, a Tandus company, is meeting the goals of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 by replacing diesel used in its commercial boilers with 100% biodiesel, a renewable energy source manufactured by SoymetTM, LLC. DUKE AND CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITIES JOIN THE CLIMATE GROUP TO LAUNCH ‘CLIMATE ACADEMY’ FOR BUSINESS EXECUTIVES DURHAM, N.C./LONDON, U.K. December 8, 2006 --/WORLD-WIRE/-- Duke University in the U.S., the University of Cambridge in the U.K. and the international non-profit organization The Climate Group are launching the "Climate Academy" to educate business executives on how to seize the business advantage inherent in addressing global climate change, officials announced Thursday. SOLARCENTURY WINS EUROSOLAR EUROPEAN SOLAR PRIZE FOR OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION TO RENEWABLE ENERGY LONDON, U.K. December 8, 2006 --/WORLD-WIRE/-- Solarcentury, the UK's leading solar energy supplier specialising in building integrated photovoltaics, has been awarded the EUROSOLAR European Solar Prize for outstanding industrial and commercial company. MEDIA ADVISORY: MONDAY PRESS CONFERENCES AT AGU ANNOUNCE CLIMATE CHANGE RESEARCH, ADVANCES IN WEATHER PREDICTION SAN FRANCISCO, California December 7, 2006 --/WORLD-WIRE/-- NCAR and UCAR scientists will participate in several announcements during press conferences on Monday, December 11, at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union. Reporters who are not at the meeting will be able to attend by telephone GLOBAL WARMING OF THE FUTURE IS PROJECTED BY ANCIENT CARBON EMISSIONS NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, December 7, 2006 --/WORLD-WIRE/-- Global warming 55 million years ago suggests a high climate sensitivity to carbon dioxide, according to research led by Mark Pagani, associate professor of geology and geophysics at Yale and published in the December 8 issue of Science. A WINDOW ON THE ENVIRONMENT FROM TAHOE TO THE OCEANa> DAVIS, CalIfornia December 6, 2006 --/WORLD-WIRE/-- There is a big idea in environmental science, it is interconnectedness. Air, water, land and the living things on or in them are connected in ways obvious and subtle. STOAM MAKES GOING GREEN EASY FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BUILDING COMMUNITY SPRINGFIELD, Missouri December 06, 2006 --/WORLD-WIRE/-- Stoam gears up for Green! Sustainable and green buildings are rapidly becoming a necessity as many large corporations like Bank of America, Toyota, Goldman Sachs, IBM, and more are striving to push green buildings to the world, according to "Building the Green Way" by Charles Lockwood. THE NANO WORLD ON A BIG SCALE: CORNELL'S 'TOO SMALL TO SEE' EXHIBIT OPENS AT EPCOT'S INNOVENTIONS IN THE DISNEY WORLD RESORT ITHACA, New York, December 05, 2006 --/WORLD-WIRE/-- Thanks to nanotechnology there are new ways to fight cancer, lighter and stronger materials for consumer and commercial use, and it is making energy more efficient. EXPOSURES TO THE INSECTICIDE CHLORPYRIFOS IN PREGNANCY ADVERSELY AFFECT CHILD DEVELOPMENT NEW YORK, NY, December 4, 2006 --/WORLD-WIRE/-- Children who were exposed prenatally to the insecticide chlorpyrifos had significantly poorer mental and motor development by three years of age and increased risk for behavior problems, according to a peer-reviewed study published today by the American Academy of Pediatrics in its journal, Pediatrics. DANISH STUDY SHOWS VIRTUALLY NO HARM TO BIRDS, FISH OR SEALS AT WORLD'S TWO BIGGEST OFFSHORE WIND FARMS BOSTON, MA, December 4, 2006 --/WORLD-WIRE/-- Danish energy and environment government agencies have released their findings at the conclusion of an eight-year study on the impacts of the world’s two largest offshore wind farms, Horns Rev and Nysted, on the aquatic ecosystem including birds, fish, seals and benthic life. CONSERVATIONISTS WILL FIGHT LAS CRUCES/EL PASO WATER GRAB ON GILA RIVER PINOS ALTOS, NM, December 1, 2006 --/WORLD-WIRE/-- The Center for Biological Diversity vowed to oppose transfer of water from the Gila River – New Mexico’s last free-flowing river – out of the Gila River basin to fuel urban sprawl in Las Cruces, N.M. and El Paso, Texas. |
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