Review ofEPA MyEnvironment(http://www.epa.gov/myenvironment/)

Comparison Research on US-China Green Building Practice

“…Consumers are being educated about the benefits of green building; product manufacturers are increasingly aware of the environmental benefits of their products; builders are learning about new techniques and technologies that purport to reduce environmental impact; and lenders, insurers, municipalities, code officials and design professionals are reinterpreting their roles in terms of green design objectives. 16 In the United States, contractors need to fully understand the categorization of LEED prerequisites and credits which have the potential to influence their existing construction project management practices, and they need to provide input to focus on these LEED credits and requirements in green building execution. So contractors in the USA are increasingly in use of performance-based project requirements that include construction related elements such as pollution prevention and resource conservation measures, pre-assembly techniques, and the education of subcontractors and vendors to gain competitiveness.…”

A Novel Sonochemical Synthesis of Metal Oxides Based Bhasmas

“…The supercritical conditions created by ultrasound energy is on the time-scale of nano seconds and is restricted to micro scale size regions called hot spots, ensuring inherent safety to the sonochemical processes [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14]. Therefore the sonochemical route could emerge in a big way as an alternate route for conducting the unit operations (physical processes) and unit processes (chemical reactions) of chemical engineering in a safer and environmentally benign way [15][16].…”