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Biofuels Use May Provide Positive Health Impact
Read the full story in Environmental Protection. A grant from the Energy Biosciences Institute (EBI) has produced a novel and comprehensive “Life Cycle Impact Assessment” to measure the benefits on human health that might result from a switch to biofuels. … Continue reading
Posted in Biofuels, Environmental Health, Publications, Research
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Midwest Promotes Sequestration, Capture and Storage
Read the full story in Environmental Protection. Governors of Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin and the premier of Manitoba, Canada, will now consider advisory group recommendations for their greenhouse gas emission reductions. The final draft guidelines are the … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Policy
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Nanotechnology Council Launches Open-source Wiki
Read the full story in Environmental Protection. The Rice University-based International Council on Nanotechnology (ICON) on June 1 introduced the GoodNanoGuide, an online, community-driven wiki for information about the safe handling of nanomaterials. The beta version of the GoodNanoGuide can … Continue reading
Posted in Nanotechnology, Web Resources
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Keep workers on task with green computers
Read the full story at GreenerWorking. What to look for when buying new computers for the office so you can claim a green rewards and some savings? Think just enough power and memory. Three business desktops have recently been anointed … Continue reading
Get customers to reward you for going green
Read the full story at GreenerWorking. With apologies to Kevin Costner, we ask the question: If you go green, will they (customers) come? The answer is yes when it comes to a new form of consumer power called the Carrotmob … Continue reading
Posted in Green Business
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HP's green push to expand even more
Read the full story at GreenerWorking. Helping customers cut their energy bills is the essential Green IT strategy driving computer maker HP to expand its Eco Solutions program. The company’s specifically targeting small, medium and large businesses that want to … Continue reading
Competitive pressures push phone maker to go green
Read the full story at GreenerWorking.com. Is your company ready to help its customers cut their carbon footprint? Whether you want to or not right now, you may not have a choice once your competitors adopt green strategies, and it’s … Continue reading
Is it too easy to claim to be green? Congress wants to know
Read the full post at GreenerWorking. It may get much harder to jump on the green bandwagon unless companies can prove how they measure the “greeniness” of their products and services. Reason: Congress is gearing up to define what green … Continue reading
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IBM: Here's where companies' green initiatives are failing
Read the full post at GreenerWorking.com. Going green is proving to be harder than most companies want to admit. And, while many are introducing green versions of their traditional products and services, this only nibbles at the edges of the … Continue reading
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LG, San Francisco BART begin mobile phone recycling
Read the full story in Waste & Recycling News. LGE MobileComm USA, a unit of LG Electronics Inc., is teaming up with San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit to provide mobile phone recycling.