Villanova University engineering students have been converting used cooking oil from dining services into biodiesel fuel for University grounds equipment for several years now. This year, the students wanted to take it one step further...
Maria Elena Morales, a doctoral student in neurosciences, proposed an incentive system that reduces electricity use in Washington University in St. Louis science laboratories to win the 2011 Olin Business School Sustainability Case Competition and...
Coming Together: Joint Green Chemistry & Engineering Conference — 15th Annual Green Chemistry & Engineering Conference + 5th International Conference on Green and Sustainable Chemistry — June 21 - 23, 2011
Improving sustainability practices is a growing trend in businesses and organizations, with 62 percent of companies in 2009 reporting they had empowered internal teams to create eco-friendly workplaces.
Scientists are reporting discovery of an environmentally friendly way to make a key industrial material — used in products ranging from paints to diapers — from a renewable raw material without touching the traditional pricey and increasingly scarce
With green on the mind from holiday trees, wreaths, and garlands, heres a package of ideas for keeping green as in sustainable and eco-friendly in your life throughout 2011 and beyond. They are gems on sustainability hand-picked from almost 38,000 sc
Is there a large laboratory in your area that might close? Or is there one that has closed and reopened and is renting laboratory space? If so, this might represent a valuable opportunity for your firm.
With the issue of sustainability fast becoming ubiquitous in our culture, the benefits of green design and building are prized highly by architecture, engineering and construction professionals as well as by many in the scientific community at large.