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[13 Jun 2011 | No Comment | 16]

Canon Australia has been presented with a silver award for its involvement in the NSW Government’s Sustainability Advantage Program. Held in conjunction with 2011 World Environment Day, Canon was one of only 63 companies in NSW who were recognised for their commitment to sustainable business

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[13 Jun 2011 | No Comment | 16]

LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y., June 7, 2011 – Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leader in digital imaging, today announced that the Company has been named by Forbes.com as one of the “10 Companies That Are Genuinely Green.” Selected from a broad range of industries including mining, manufacturing and

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[31 May 2011 | No Comment | 10]

Websites created by Strawberry Frog (NYC) for Nanhi Kali have won two awards at the prestigious ONE CLUB annual ONE SHOW AWARDS held recently in New York. The ONE CLUB is the world’s foremost non-profit organization devoted to elevating creative work in the industry. It seeks to celebrate

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[28 May 2011 | No Comment | 20]

Between 2006 and 2010, emissions of carbon dioxide from the Volvo Group’s transportation of goods and products in Europe was reduced by 22 percent, measured as the average number of grams of carbon dioxide per ton per kilometer. This is one of the findings revealed in a report from Volvo

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[27 May 2011 | No Comment | 14]

Evidence that early Antarctic Circumpolar Current development affected global climate Thirty-eight million years ago, tropical jungles thrived in what are now the cornfields of the American Midwest and furry marsupials wandered temperate forests in what is now the frozen Antarctic. The

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[27 May 2011 | No Comment | 11]

Marine scientists discover wave disturbance, nutrient levels affect California giant kelp growth Marine scientists have a new view of the giant kelp in the Pacific Ocean–through a scuba mask and a satellite’s “eye.” Forests of giant kelp, or Macrocystis pyrifera, are

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[23 May 2011 | No Comment | 13]

New robotic labs are now going mobile to collect ocean samples It looks a lot like a garbage can-–but it’s actually a fully functioning laboratory, thrown overboard, to analyze water samples in the open ocean. One day, a machine like it might tell us whether a beach is safe for swimming

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[21 May 2011 | No Comment | 17]

Honda and the Clean Energy Partnership (CEP) have announced today that Honda will become the newest member of the CEP program, providing further impetus to the hydrogen movement in Europe. FCX Clarity CEP is Europe’s leading fuel cell vehicle and hydrogen infrastructure demonstration

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[21 May 2011 | No Comment | 13]

How unique is the Milky Way? To find out, a group of researchers led by Stanford University astrophysicist Risa Wechsler compared the Milky Way to similar galaxies and found that just four percent are like the galaxy Earth calls home. “We are interested in how the Milky Way fits into the

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[21 May 2011 | No Comment | 10]

Liquid crystal droplets could replace horseshoe crab blood in common endotoxin test The Food and Drug Administration requires every drug they certify to be tested for certain poisons that damage patient health. The current gold standard for this is the limulus amoebocyte lysate (LAL) assay that