Sustainability
USDA scientists are tapping yeasts as a source of "green" surfactants to use in products like cosmetics and pesticides.
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In an important environmental victory, UC San Diego and the University of California Office of the President have persuaded state regulators to drop a requirement that UC campuses use a potent greenhouse gas in a required laboratory safety test. The
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The seeds sprouting in your spring garden may still be struggling to reach the sun. If so, they are consuming a finite energy pack contained within each seed...
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As manufacturers and other businesses step up efforts to cut waste, reduce energy use and improve the overall sustainability of...
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Kimberly-Clark Professional* announced on April 22 the Think Green Getaway Contest designed to support and celebrate “green” innovation ideas that...
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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...
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How does a research facility or biotech company with older laboratories update existing facilities to current energy conservation standards?
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15th Annual Green Chemistry & Engineering Conference/5th International Conference on Green and Sustainable Chemistry
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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...
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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
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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.
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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
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