Rich nations say on track with $30 billion climate aid
by: Reuters: Green Business News, 2011-06-01 15:30:59 UTC
OSLO/LONDON (Reuters) - Earthquake-hit Japan and many other rich nations are reaffirming pledges to give $30 billion from 2010-12 to help poor nations fight climate change despite budget cuts, a...

Pinkeye Turns Upcycled Shoe Supply Store Into the Talk of Antwerp
by: Inhabitat , 2011-06-01 14:30:05 UTC

There’s nothing ho hum about the Shoe Supply store in Antwerp. Located in a discreet portion of this Belgian city’s retail district, the owner wanted a design concept that would get everybody talking. But Pinkeye’s radical idea to transform the store into an upcycled classroom took some convincing.

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Spectacular 6-Meter Globe Is World’s First Large-Scale Spherical OLED Screen
by: Inhabitat , 2011-06-01 22:57:35 UTC

This morning Mitsubishi Electric Corporation announced that it has installed a spectacular, new OLED globe at the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation in Tokyo. The globe, which measures an impressive 6-meters, is the world’s first large-scale spherical OLED screen. Hanging 18 meters from the floor, it has been constructed with aluminum and covered with 10,362 OLED panels, each measuring 96 x 96 millimeters. The spherical screen will be officially unveiled on June 11th as part of the museum’s brand-new “Geo-Cosmos” exhibit, where it will display scenes of clouds and other visions of the earth taken from a meteorological satellite.

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Ulvac-Riko Announces Small-size Binary Power Generation System
by: Tech-On! : tech news - straight from Asia., 2011-06-01 05:52:00 UTC
Ulvac-Riko Inc developed a small-size mobile power generation system that can generate electricity by using low temperature heat (75 to 150 degrees C).

TDK Unveils Structure of Mass-produced See-through OLED Panel
by: Tech-On! : tech news - straight from Asia., 2011-06-01 00:54:00 UTC
TDK Corp unveiled the structure of the see-through OLED panel that it started producing in volume in March 2011.

Hangzhou's Bike-Share Shows How It's Done (Video)
by: TreeHugger Design, 2011-06-01 21:47:46 UTC
2,000+ Stations, 50,000+ Bicycles Now, 175,000+ Expected by 2020 File this one in the category: "Learning from China". Hangzhou's bike-sharing system is an inspiration for the rest of the world. The fundamentals aren't so different from what is being done elsewhere (like Vélib in Paris), but the ambition is on another scale. The Hangzhou Public Bicycles are well integrated into the other mass transit modes, the number of bikes and stations is growing very rap... Read the full story on TreeHugger

China state firms to cut energy intensity by 16 percent by 2015
by: Reuters: Green Business News, 2011-06-01 08:49:13 UTC
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's state-owned enterprises will be forced reduce the amount of energy used per unit of industrial output by "about 16 percent" by 2015 from 2010 levels, according to a...