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What's up with all the management reshuffling at green chemical companies?
I noticed the blog has been receiving a lot of notices on personnel changes within the renewable chemicals sector this year and the most recent one is Amyris' top management team announced yesterday.According to Amyris, three of its management team - the president of global operations Mario Portela, VP general counsel and corporate...[read more]
Predicting the Top Sustainability Stories of 2012
Last month I offered my picks for the Top Sustainability Stories of 2011. Here are my predictions for the Top Sustainability Stories of 2012. (It's a rugged mix of bad news and good.) Climate heats up and hides out The sheer pressure of the hard-to-escape evidence -- more record-breaking temperatures, more disastrous weather events, big...[read more]
Green Chemistry and Clean Energy
In December, the University of Massachusetts, Boston (where I work) hosted three leading proponents of green chemistry for a panel discussion of the potential and challenges of the field. John Warner, widely considered the father of green chemistry, is a former chair of the UMass-Boston chemistry department and is currently the president...[read more]
Ammonia As An Alternative Fuel?
In the last seven years I've written extensively about a wide variety of alternative fuels, including ethanol, methanol, and higher alcohols like butanol, along with compressed and liquefied natural gas (CNG and LNG), hydrogen, and electricity, but I find I haven't said anything about anhydrous ammonia. It turns out that there is a small...[read more]
What business can learn from Sea-Monkeys
If you were one of those kids who looked forward to science class, you probably remember Sea-Monkeys. I wasn’t into science but, as I recall, you could order Sea Monkeys from the back page of a comic book. According to Wikipedia, Sea Monkeys are the brand name for a variant of brine shrimp… a species which enters cyptobiosis, a...[read more]
2009 lessons and 2010 predictions
So what do we learned from 2009? Recession drove a little bit of a decline on venture capital investments in the clean technologies sector compared to 2008 but the good news is that 2009 seem to be a record year for federal grants and funds on renewable energy, clean technology and green chemistry. There was also proliferation of new...[read more]
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