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Tetsuo Nozawa, Nikkei Electronic, 29 May 2009 DuPont Displays Inc announced that it developed new OLED materials designed for coating process. They are the company’s third-generation OLED materials. Among them, a green light-emitting material has a luminance half-life of more than one million hours when…

The FAO Forestry Department promotes, among others, the responsible use of wood as an environmentally friendly raw material. In the last decades, wood and wood-based products have been faced with stronger competition from substitute materials, such as plastics, concrete, steel, glass or aluminium, as these…

Buildings and building components, particularly windows, have been the subject of numerous studies seeking to recognize and quantify the environmental impacts caused by processes in the product life cycle.

“From an environmental perspective, Blu-ray and other optical discs are promising for archival purposes.”

Brother Industries Ltd will release the “Brother Document Viewer SV-100B,” an information terminal equipped with an electronic paper module, in Japan June 1, 2009.

Via GoodCleanTech by Mariella Moon Feeling the pressure exerted upon by the European Union, the cell phone industry is currently planning to come up with a universal charger that would work with all phones to be released in the future.

Wildlife researchers have hired the services of some unusual helpers: 200 neighbourhood cats equipped with electronic tags.

With each added version it becomes increasingly clear that Google Earth is good for more than just looking up your street from space. The satellite based 3D mapping application has already been used to fight deforestation and gauge the effects of global warming on animal…

This article addresses the life cycle assessment of the materials normally used for window frames, highlighting their respective benefits and weaknesses. Frames of different materials have been assessed on the basis of their production, energy consumption and environmental impacts. It has been found that the…