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Fourth-fifths of the United States' electricity demand could be met with wind and solar power, according to four researchers from the Carnegie Institution for Science, University of California, Irvine (UCI), and the California...

A section of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet has melted to a point of no return, according to a new study released by researchers from NASA and the University of California, Irvine...

10. University of California, Santa Barbara Forty-four of the buildings on campus at UC Santa Barbara are LEED certified and 47% of academic departments offer a class about sustainability, totaling 321 classes, with 217 faculty...

Read the rest of UC Irvine Contemporary Arts Center is Finely Tuned to Southern California’s Climate Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architecture", art school, CAC, contemporary...

Read the rest of UC Irvine’s Humanities Gateway Building Awarded LEED Platinum Certification Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architecture", eco design, fentress architects, green...

Great, just great. Don’t get me wrong, I like the LED bulbs, I have several in my house. But when we get back to basics, a tungsten light bulb doesn’t require a haz-mat squad to dispose of. It’s glass, ceramic,...

An enzyme found in the roots of the soybean plant could soon have cars running on fumes — literally. Vanadium nitrogenase, a bacterial enzyme that usually converts atmospheric nitrogen into ammonia, can also convert carbon...