LEED Points

Tag: Sustainable Business

  • Lawrence Livermore Engineering Team Breakthrough in Solar Energy Research

    The LLNL Materials Engineering Division (MED) research team has made breakthroughs experimenting with black metals. These nanostructured metals are designed to have low reflectivity and high absorption of visible and infrared light. The MED research team recently published their black metals research results in a cover-page article in the May issue of Applied Physics Letters…

  • News on Hydrogen Discoveries

    For those scientists, researchers and sustainability innovators wanting to know more about the status of hydrogen today, read the two following AAAS releases below. We need to learn much more about discoveries such as these. Congratulations to all who worked on these projects.

  • Leadership in Sustainable Manufacturing: Ecovative Design

    This is a business feature worth sharing. Ecovative Design features a shining example for manufacturing building materials on a sustainable basis. It grows the insulating products it manufactures and sells.

  • What Can Plants Reveal about Global Climate Change?

    A group of organisms that play a wide variety of crucial roles in our global ecosystems is plants. What role do plants play in helping to regulate climate change and how will they fare in future times? A new series of articles in a Special Issue on Global Biological Change in the American Journal of…

  • Understanding Evaporative Coolers

    You may have heard people mention swamp coolers; there are different types of these units on the market. This article is focused on the basic concept of evaporative cooling. Evaporative coolers help to cool you for two reasons: One is that they ventilate your room. If heat accumulates in your room (which usually happens when…