Eco-Conscious, January 2010

A recent article on WorldNetDaily highlights the current concerns of the Obama Administration with regards to global warming.

According to the article, President Obama “has resurrected a program … that shares information from the CIA’s spy satellites and other classified sensors with environmental scientists.”

Click here for the full article

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An American company in Ohio, FOPAT Production Inc., has developed “a new type of foam that can replace wax in lost-wax casting of aerospace components.”

FOPAT’s new foam pattern work was funded in part by a U.S. Department of Energy Inventions and Innovation program grant. Read more company history

The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory “estimates that industry’s savings will be worth millions of dollars” thanks to this new product that is energy-efficient, cost effective, and allows for “excellent dimensional predictability in cast components.” Read more

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ABC News is reporting on the recent trend of sustainable wineries. According to the article, “the same southwest-facing, sunny hillside that gives great grapes also raises a fine crop of solar panels.”

New sustainable features at wineries include: solar panels, water conservation, and energy efficiency. One of the featured wineries in the article is even “on track for Gold certification under the U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED.”

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