Green Career Trends: Dow Makes Solar Roof Shingles, Lipton Tea Factory Now Zero-Landfill Waste, Largest Wind Farm in Texas

October 8th, 2009 admin

Dow Chemical has turned the ordinary asphalt shingle, commonly used on home roofs, into an electricity generating solar shingle.


Originally posted on Green Career Central Blog

 
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