Green Building

European Lighting Industry Agrees to Push Energy-Saving Bulbs
The world's three largest light bulb makers said Thursday they will push European consumers to switch to energy-saving bulbs in a bid to cut carbon dioxide emissions that are believed to contribute to global warming. >> Read the Full Article
Tax Breaks Proposed for Landowners Who Offer Habitats
Landowners frustrated by the Endangered Species Act might get a carrot instead of the stick under a proposed revision of the law that would offer them tax incentives to give the critters a home. >> Read the Full Article
Moscow Tells Residents to Change Their Light Bulbs
Russia has launched its first major energy awareness campaign since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, bringing an unfamiliar sight to Moscow's streets: billboards urging people to switch to energy-saving light bulbs. >> Read the Full Article
NGO, Residents to Buy Malaysian Forests to Prevent Urban Development
The Malaysian chapter of World Wide Fund for Nature and at least two resident associations in central Petaling Jaya city -- next to the country's largest city Kuala Lumpur -- intend to buy up forest tracts for conservation purposes, the New Straits Times reported. >> Read the Full Article
Solar Handbags? Wind Turbines? How to Get Green
The idea of renewable energy at home is no longer as distant as an offshore wind farm. More companies are waking up to the popularity of green energy and the Web hosts many sites showing steps people can take -- or gadgets they can buy -- to use renewable technology. >> Read the Full Article
Australia to Change Lightbulbs to Curb Warming
Australia will be the world's first country to ban incandescent lightbulbs in a bid to curb Greenhouse gas emissions, with the government saying on Tuesday they would be phased out within three years. >> Read the Full Article
British Virgin Islands Approves Luxury Resort Despite Strong Opposition
The British Virgin Islands has approved construction of a high-end resort and golf course that would take up most of a largely uninhabited island, the territory's government announced. >> Read the Full Article
Environmentalists Protest Plans for Highway Across Rare Reat Bog in Poland
Hundreds of environmentalists on Sunday protested the planned construction of a highway that would cross one of Europe's rare peat bogs. Polish authorities have approved plans to construct a section of the Via Baltica highway, linking Poland to Finland, that would cross a protected peat bog area off the Rospuda River in the northeast of the country. >> Read the Full Article
Asian Cities to Generate 1.8 Million Tons of Waste Per Day by 2025
Rapid development, rising personal consumption and inefficient use of resources are producing unprecedented levels of waste in Asia, where cities will generate an estimated 1.8 million tons of garbage per day by 2025, the Asian Development Bank said Thursday. >> Read the Full Article
With New Port, China Aims for Cleaner Development
Every fifty seconds, 38 tonnes of red-black Brazilian iron ore are scooped from the hull of the SG Prosperity, dumped on a conveyor and sped away to a yard. Caofeidian, China's newest and largest iron ore port, is open for business. >> Read the Full Article