Ecofriend

From the juice and fruit industries, apples got yet another new place -- the paper industry! Yes, an Italian inventor Alberto Volcan has created a type of paper made from apples. He has also expanded the fruits' usage in making other office products..

For promoting the production of coal-to-liquids transportation fuels, a group of mining, railroad, energy and labor organizations has formed the Coal-to-Liquids Coalition. Last week, a dozen of Congress members joined the founders at a Capitol Hill press.

Very soon a new Whole Trade Guarantee label will be used to mark ethically sourced products. But, to carry the new label, the products have to meet strict requirements like that related to quality, wages and working conditions, and most importantly,..

As the clock went half past seven in the evening on Saturday, Sydney found itself blackened. It was complete dark all over for an hour. The blackening had a purpose. The purpose was to herald a warning for the biggest disaster facing us on earth in the...

The UK government will soon be announcing a plan capable of slashing the red tape that covers the installation of several 'green housing' technology including wind turbines and solar panels. Amid the battle between the Labor and the Tories over...

A London borough gets a new scheme to balm the environmental owes. The scheme requires drivers to pay for parking permits of the residents in accordance with the level of the emissions produced by their cars. It has come into force in the region....

Banking on the latest wave of environmental concern, old product can be of much help to a new market, as per the present market demand and necessity. With emission related taxes being imposed in several regions in the world, one cannot wait to find if...

The incinerators have been partly responsible for polluting UK's environment. No more worries - as the UK market will soon be hit by cutting edge waste-to-energy plants, which are not just smaller and cleaner than the incinerators, but can easily...

The Giant Sunflower -- This is where beauty and nature seem to be merging literally. To gauge and protest against climate change near the ends of the Earth, a giant metal sunflower stands noticeably atop a hill swept by wind located in the...

The U.S. Department of Energy has given the green signal for a cleaner-burning, 285-megawatt coal-fired power plant's building at an existing power station site near Orlando, Florida, as the DOE informed. It is in 2010, the $569-million plant is due...