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WALTHAM, Mass., April 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- American DG Energy Inc. (NYSE Amex:ADGE), a leading On-Site Utility, offering clean electricity, heat, hot water and cooling solutions to hospitality, healthcare, housing and athletic facilities, was recognized for the sixth consecutive year by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Combined Heat and Power (CHP) Partnership for the carbon emissions reductions of the Company's CHP systems. American DG Energy, a member of the CHP...

SAN FRANCISCO, April 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Red Hill Studios announces that it will donate half of the net proceeds from downloads of its innovative iPad app Painting with Time: Climate Change to the Union of Concerned Scientists to support their on-going efforts investigating climate change. To view the multimedia assets associated with this release, please click...

After experiencing several years of severe weather, including extreme heat, droughts and tornadoes in unusual locations, it seems the public has finally come around to the idea of global warming. A poll released on Wednesday reveals many Americans believe the wild weather of late has been magnified due to global warming. The majority of Americans believe the weather has been getting worse, by a margin of 2 to 1. This survey is the most detailed of its kind, measuring the public’s...

DURHAM, N.H., April 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Climate Counts, a leading non-profit that rates companies on their commitment to addressing climate change, and ePlusGreen, a leading provider of cloud-based power management software, have partnered in support of Climate Counts' "Be the Change" Earth Day campaign. The initiative is designed to educate consumers on what leading-edge corporations are doing to reduce their emissions and how consumers can follow suit by making...

A group of environmental scientists say a problem-ridden economic model designed to slow deforestation can be improved by applying key concepts from the insurance industry. REDD (Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation) is a UN-promoted scheme that allows countries to trade in carbon credits to keep forests intact. It is mainly targeted at developing nations where deforestation and exploitation are a major threat. In a paper published online in the journal...

Lawrence LeBlond for RedOrbit.com A proposed reduction in the world’s carbon emissions set by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) can only be met if the developed world cuts down meat consumption by 50 percent per person, according to new research from a Massachusetts-based climate initiative organization. Scientists from the Woods Hole Research Center (WHRC), located in Falmouth, Mass., found in a new study that the world needs to not only cut meat consumption by 50...

Meat consumption in the developed world needs to be cut by 50 per cent per person by 2050 if we are to meet the most aggressive strategy, set out by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), to reduce one of the most important greenhouse gases, nitrous oxide (N2O). This is the finding from a new study, published today, 13 April, in IOP Publishing's Environmental Research Letters, which also claims that N2O emissions from the industrial and agricultural sectors will also need to...

Imagine a world where the rooftops and pavements of every urban area are resurfaced to increase the reflection of the Sun's light rays. Well, this is exactly what a group of Canadian researchers have done in an attempt to measure the potential effects against global warming. In a study published today, 13 April, in IOP Publishing's journal Environmental Research Letters, researchers from Concordia University created this scenario to see what effect a global increase in surface reflectance...

BOYERTOWN, Pa. and LOS ANGELES, April 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- ClimeCo America Corporation (ClimeCo America) and Rentech Nitrogen Partners, L.P. (NYSE: RNF) jointly announced today that ClimeCo America will deliver 120,000 Climate Reserve Tonnes (CRT) to Just Energy (NYSE: JE and TSX: JE), a leading competitive North American green energy retailer. Measured as a unit of offset credits used by the Climate Action Reserve (CAR), one CRT is equal to one metric ton of greenhouse gases...

CHICAGO, April 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Fans of the Chicago Blackhawks and Chicago Bulls who cheered the teams' first environmentally friendly "Go-Green" (view link here) games on Sunday and Monday can make every day Earth Day by promoting energy efficiency. To view the multimedia assets associated with this release, please visit: http://multivu.prnewswire.com/mnr/constellationenergy/50733/ Constellation Energy, the official energy provider for United Center and sponsor of the...