One Less Greenhouse Gas?
Scientists at Natural Resources Canada have achieved nearly 100% decomposition of sulphur hexafluoride by the use of plasma technology...[ Details ]

A Green Solution To Biofuel Production
With the current drive towards production of alternative fuels from plant material, enzymes which can break down this material into useable compounds are required in industrial quantities and at a low cost...[ Details ]

Rare hydrogen producing microorganism may help unlock tomorrow's hydrogen economy
An ancient organism from the pit of a collapsed volcano may hold the key to tomorrow's hydrogen economy...[ Details ]

Biogas fuels city buses, garbage trucks, taxi cabs, even a train in Sweden
With the relentless increases in oil prices, alternative fuels for transportation that promise clean, renewable energy are acquiring a higher profile...[ Details ]

Ontario Pursues Next Generation of Biofuels
McGuinty Government Supporting Innovation-Driven Economy...[ Details ]

Research Yields Pricey Chemicals From Biodiesel Waste
In a move that promises to change the economics of biodiesel refining, chemical engineers at Rice University have unveiled a set of techniques for cleanly converting problematic biofuels waste into chemicals that fetch a profit...[ Details ]

Lafarge and Performance Plants Join Forces to Develop Non-Food Energy Crops
Lafarge North America Inc., the country's largest cement manufacturer and Performance Plants Inc. (PPI), a Kingston-based biotechnology company, announced a multi-year agreement to grow and develop clean energy biomass grasses and woods for use as fuel at the Lafarge Cement Plant in Bath...[ Details ]

Cleaning up natural gas
New Brunswick's Atlantic Hydrogen plans a large-scale demonstration of its CarbonSaver technology...[ Details ]

Arise Gives Green Light to Solar Technologies at Two Regional Universities
Arise Technologies Corporation, a Waterloo-based solar-power products company, is contributing one third to a $15 million University of Toronto solar research project, partnering with the university and the Government of Ontario...[ Details ]

Same Wires, More Power
Five summers and two sweeping national energy laws ago, a few overgrown trees tripped power lines in Ohio, cascading into a blackout for much of the northeastern U.S. and Canada. Yet the nation's electric grid is still in drastic need of an overhaul...[ Details ]

Enphase Energy Seeks New Converts
The startup has begun to peddle its offerings of micro-inverters and a service for monitoring and managing solar arrays...[ Details ]

Ontario eyed for wind turbine factory
German company considers province for first North American facility, thousands of jobs possible...[ Details ]

6th Annual ELORIN Conference: Biofibres and Building to be held in Trenton on August 13 and 14
This year's conference will explore the building applications for biofibres products and more! Plenary sessions will focus on obstacles and opportunities for sustainable building practices, including broader explorations of building materials and manufacturing prospects...[ Details ]

Novomer Launches CO2-Based Plastic
The Ithaca, N.Y.-based company is selling a binding plastic for high-tech manufactures that is 40 percent carbon dioxide...[ Details ]

Creating a Solar Bond That Lasts
Startup BioSolar will take on DuPont with a plant-based technology that could help protect solar cells from freezing cold winters and blazing hot summers...[ Details ]

Edmonton to be site of world's first industrial scale municipal waste-to-ethanol facility
The City has signed a 25-year agreement with GreenField Ethanol, Canada's largest ethanol producer and Enerkem, a leading biofuels technology company...[ Details ]

City of Ottawa moves forward with 400 tonne-per-day PlascoEnergy facility
Plasco Energy Group Inc. of Ottawa announced that the Ottawa City Council unanimously agreed to issue a letter of intent to PlascoEnergy to build, own and operate a 400 tonne-per-day waste conversion facility that will process residual household waste that would otherwise be sent to landfill...[ Details ]

The dirty little secret of plastic recycling
Most plastic recycling plants use up to 100,000 gallons of water per day. ECO2 Plastics says it uses zero and consumes carbon along the way...[ Details ]

Hybrid locomotive impresses California Shortline Railroads
RPRX 5400 (RP20BD) successful demonstrations to California Shortlines prove Railpower Multi-Gensets are industry top performers...[ Details ]