The Friends School of Portland in Maine is the first Passive House school building in the state, and only the third in the country.

Water and waste water treatment typically account for 35 percent of a municipality’s energy budget, which would mean big savings for local governments that can make the facilities energy neutral.

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) today announced up to $30 million in funding for a new program focused on improving the energy efficiency of commercial and residential buildings.

On the sidelines of the preparatory meeting of Tenth Congress of the Provincial Party, many delegates expressed consensus with the political report of the IX tenure of the Party's Executive Committee and the Report on specific measures for sustainable development of Dong Nai Province in the period 2015-2020.

In order to boost the investment in wind power in countries of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), Multilateral Trade Policy Department (Ministry of Industry and Trade) in collaboration with APEC Secretariat held the “APEC Workshop on public-private partnership for wind energy development” on September 24-25, 2015.

Vietnam has huge potential of renewable energy sources, widely distributed across the country, with nearly 3,400km of coastline to provide potential wind energy resources, estimated at 500 -1000 kWh/m2 per year.

Newly installed heating and hot water systems are now required to display an energy efficiency label rating under new EU legislation.

These two different approaches to water conservation in the shower could make a dent in your water footprint.

Delhi is getting its first hydro-power plant, but it’s not harvesting the energy of running water in the traditional hydroelectric model, as this new system uses falling water from a treated sewage effluent pipe to spin its turbine.

Developing transparent or semitransparent solar cells with high efficiency and low cost to replace the existing opaque and expensive silicon-based solar panels has become increasingly important due to the increasing demands of the building integrated photovoltaics (BIPVs) systems.

GreenWood Forest Park in North Wales is set to save over £1m on its energy bills thanks to a newly installed ground-mounted solar array system.

INTENSE aims at transferring intelligent energy saving measures for municipal housing from “old” EU Member States to “new” Member States and Accession countries in Central and Eastern Europe.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) selected eight manufacturers to receive $100 million in contracts to develop and demonstrate technologies that reduce fuel consumption, emissions, and noise, under the second phase of its Continuous Lower Energy, Emissions, and Noise (CLEEN II) program.

Japan’s Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) has started demonstration tests of a new windshield for containerships, potentially reducing wind resistance, saving fuel and lowering carbon dioxide emissions.

New energy standards for home boilers entering into force this month are expected to take offline the equivalent of 47 Fukushima-type nuclear power stations in Europe by 2020, according to official EU data compiled by the European Environmental Bureau (EEB).

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has been financing Turkish banks that offer these loans to their clients since 2010. Overall, the bank has invested close to $3 billion in energy projects in the country, and the result has been $700 million in savings since the EBRD began the program.

Hydrogen could be the ideal fuel: Whether used to make electricity in a fuel cell or burned to make heat, the only byproduct is water; there is no climate-altering carbon dioxide.

Croatia is one of the recognized leaders in South-East Europe in the field of energy management, monitoring and assessment of the energy consumption, which are important aspects of the rational use of energy in buildings. That is why Croatia was chosen as the country for a study tour of officials and experts of Turkmenistan on energy conservation and management in buildings.

Pursuant to the National Strategy for Green Growth by 2050 approved by the Prime Minister, Vietnam identified three strategic assignments: Reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and promotion of clean renewable energy; green production, greening of lifestyles and promotion of sustainable consumption.

The coal mining units will be charged the highest environmental fee of up to VND14,000/ton, an increase of VND4,000 compared with the current rate. This is the draft decree for environmental protection charges for mineral extraction which has been released by Ministry of Finance for consultation on September 4th, 2015.

The U.S. Department of Energy is helping homebuyers determine a house's energy efficiency before making a purchase.

A team of scientists with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of Illinois created solar cells that collect blue photons at 30 times the concentration of conventional solar cells, the highest luminescent concentration factor ever recorded.

While many of us may enjoy grilling food over an open fire, the fact is that cooking fires are a major source of health problems for millions of people in developing nations, who use them on a daily basis.

The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) has released the 2015 International Scorecard Self-Scoring Tool for countries to conduct an energy efficiency rating, reported Energy Management Today last week.

Understatement should not be on the agenda here: the Lefdal Mine Datacenter (LMD), a 120,000 square metre installation under construction near Måløy on Norway's west coast is going to be the European’s largest data centre, producing a capacity of 100 megawatts. According to its operators, their goal is to become Europe’s number one in terms of cost-efficiency, security, flexibility and sustainability.

A team from MIT –- composed of students Michael Laracy and Thomas Poinot, along with professors Elsa Olivetti, Hamlin Jennings and John Ochsendorf -- has developed Eco-BLAC bricks: an alternative to traditional bricks that reuses industrial waste and is low-cost and low energy.