From fuel-efficient stoves for displaced Congolese families to drought-resistant cashew trees in Brazil, some aid agencies offering carbon offset schemes want to marry emissions savings with help for people ...

Some smaller ports specialize in grain or coal or seafood. The Port of Longview once specialized in raw log exports but now has shifted to imports of major components for electricity-generating wind farms.

Republican congressional candidate Nick Jordan on Wednesday began airing the first television ad in his campaign to unseat Kansas Democratic Rep.

Advent Solar, Inc. has announced the solar industry's first cell-to-module solar architecture that combines semiconductor manufacturing methods with optimized photovoltaic cell design.

Interconnection agreements and rate changes designed to increase electricity generated from solar, wind, biomass and other renewable sources were approved Thursday by the Florida Public Service Commission .

POCATELLO, ID (MARKET WIRE) Hoku Materials, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Hoku Scientific, Inc. (NASDAQ: HOKU) established to manufacture and sell polysilicon for the solar market, today announced that after recently securing an aggregate of more than $1 billion in new polysilicon purchase commitments from Kinko energy, Tianwei New Energy, and Wealthy Rise International, Ltd (Solargiga) (announced today), it has reallocated its planned polysilicon capacity and ended contract amendment negotiations with two of its customers: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd. (Sanyo); and Global Expertise Wafer Division, Ltd. (GEWD), a wholly

POCATELLO, ID and HONG KONG (MARKET WIRE) Hoku Materials, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Hoku Scientific, Inc. (NASDAQ: HOKU) established to manufacture and sell polysilicon for the solar market, and Wealthy Rise International, Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Solargiga energy Holdings, Ltd. (HKG: 0757), a manufacturer of monocrystalline ingots and wafers in China, today announced the signing of a definitive contract for Hoku's sale and delivery of polysilicon to Solargiga over a ten-year period beginning in early 2010.

WASHINGTON, DC (MARKET WIRE) Solving world hunger has been at the top of the humanitarian agenda for decades -- even centuries, but now there are solutions evolving that could take center stage during the World Critical Resources Summit, January 5, 2009 at the Times Center in New York City (www.criticalresources.org). Watch it now at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cq0v1S8sA4.

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA (MARKET WIRE) Nevada Geothermal Power Inc. (NGP) (TSX VENTURE: NGP)(OTCBB: NGLPF) and Ormat Technologies Inc. (NYSE: ORA) announced today that NGP Blue Mountain 1 LLC (NGP 1) has issued a Full Notice to Proceed (FNTP) under its fixed-price, date-certain engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract with Ormat Nevada Inc. to supply and construct the Phase 1 49.5 MW gross 'Faulkner 1' geothermal power plant at Blue Mountain, Nevada.

Duke energy Carolinas is seeking bids from solar-power companies to supply equipment and installation services as part of the utility's proposed $100 million solar plan in North Carolina.