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Predicting the Top Sustainability Stories of 2012

February 3, 2012 by Gil Friend
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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

January 23, 2012 by David Levy
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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?

October 29, 2010 by Geoffrey Styles
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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

October 20, 2010 by Marc Gunther
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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

January 4, 2010 by Doris de Guzman
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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]