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Lenovo Pushes the Boundaries of Sustainable Design with TCO Certified Green IT Products
Leads PC Makers for Portfolio Breadth of TCO Certified Edge Products
STOCKHOLM, June 22 /PRNewswire/ — With a growing portfolio of environmentally-responsible PCs, worldwide PC maker Lenovo is widely recognized as a leader in sustainable product design - without compromising user demands for performance and cutting edge features. As verification, Lenovo has chosen the TCO Certified label as an international third party assurance of achievements. For almost 20 years, the TCO label has been the leading independent verification for PC products designed for the environment and usability.
UK gets a total of £266m in EU grants for wind and CCS development
The European Commission has announced it is to give the UK a total of €294 million (£267 million) in grant money to help with the development of renewable and carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects. The money is coming via the European Energy Programme for Recovery (EEPR) fund, which has earmarked total grants €1 billion (£0.9 billion) to six CCS projects and €510 million (£461 million) to nine offshore wind energy projects in Europe.
DOE offers $100 million for far-out energy tech
The Department of Energy is making $100 million in government stimulus money available to researchers with ideas for radically different energy technologies. The DOE on Monday announced the second portion of the ARPA-E program and said that "concept papers" for three research areas--fuels, capturing carbon dioxide from coal plants, and long-range electric vehicle batteries--are due by the middle of next January
A green industrial revolution calls
With the world's attention focused on what will be agreed at Copenhagen, the reality is that unless there is a massive rethink about how a transition to a low-carbon economy is to be financed, whatever is agreed will not be achievable.
MoMA/P.S.1 Announce Design Challenge for “Rising Currents”
Though experts dispute the role of human responsibility verse natural cycle, evidence is mounting that the global climate is heating up. One obvious result is higher water levels; with 10 of the world’s largest 15 cities located on the coast, the effects could be disastrous and the design community is taking notice.
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