Brandeis President Jehuda Reinharz was joined by Alteris Renewables in announcing the Brandeis University Climate Action Plan. The Climate Action Plan sets a long-term goal of making the campus climate neutral by 2050 and sets shorter-term milestones, such as an effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2015 to 15 percent below 2008 levels. The plan includes an agreement between Alteris and Brandeis to develop one of the largest solar arrays in the state of Massachusetts. Alteris will provide the design, engineering and installation for this 277kW solar system. The announcement took place in the new Brandeis Shapiro Science Center which was build to LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) silver standards.

Ausra Inc. has been selected as the solar steam boiler supplier for the proposed 100-megawatt JOAN1 concentrated solar thermal power (CSP) project currently under development in Ma'an, Jordan. The project will also include a back-up fossil-fuel boiler to guarantee 24-hour dispatchable electric power. The project is expected to enter operation in 2013 and will be the largest CSP project in the world using direct solar steam generation.

EnerWorks today announced third quarter bookings that more than triple the value of orders for the same period in 2008.

The world's largest single political jurisdiction to date, India, has made a strategic move to use a comprehensive system of feed-in tariffs to develop its renewable energy potential.

U.S. Senators John Kerry (D-MA), Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, and Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Committee on Environment and Public Works, today introduced the Kerry-Boxer legislation to create clean energy jobs, reduce pollution, and protect American security by enhancing domestic energy production and combating global climate change.

The worldwide competition NanoArt 2009 is open to all artists 18 years and older. The online exhibition will open for public on January 20, 2010.

In a speech today at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, U.S. EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson announced core principles that outline the Obama Administration?s goals for legislative reform of this country's chemical management law, the 1976 Toxic Substances Control Act, TSCA.

Mobius Photonics, an innovative producer of short pulsed fiber laser sources (IR, green, and UV laser), announces that its G1+ Laser System has been used in stimulated emission depletion (STED) microscopy experiments at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry.

Air Products today announced it has signed, through its subsidiary Air Products San Fu Co. Ltd. in Taiwan, a long-term contract to provide nitrogen to NexPower Technology Corporation, at its new thin-film photovoltaic facility in the Central Taiwan Science Park in Houli, Taichung, Taiwan.

Their breakthrough will help scientists understand how catalysts work. If this is understood even better catalysts could be created.