Green Chemistry

Lynne Peeples

What Does Nature Know About Superglue?

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 01.05.2012

Read More: Bpa, Chemistry, Plastics, Co2, Biomimicry, Environmental Health, Adhesive, Climate Change, Sick-Building-Syndrome, Pollution, Shellfish, Green Chemistry, Science News

Kaichang Li was wading in the surf off the Oregon Coast when he spotted the future of superglue. Beneath the surface, a group of blue mussels anchored...

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'Game-Changing' Technologies Pave Way for Growth Capital

David Milroy | Posted 06.05.2011

Read More: Environment, Vertichem, Newnet, Green Chemistry, Green News
David Milroy

I was recently in New York City for the 2011 NewNet Envirotech and Clean Energy Investor Summit. The full-day investor conference was an engaging even...

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Being Truly Green

John Warner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sawmills, Wood, Biomass, Forestry, Carbon Reduction, Biofuels, Green Jobs, Specialty Chemicals, Dow, Archer Daniels Midland, Lignin, Green Chemistry, Fortune 500, Renewable Energy, Science, Green News
John Warner

The future of a truly sustainable industry will live or die on its ability to take raw inputs that are naturally clean and use them to form the same end products that we're already used to.

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Can Green Chemistry Get Us Out of Deepwater?

Elizabeth Grossman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sustainability, Deepwater Horizon, Paul Anastas, Pollution Prevention, Gulf Oil Spill, Green Chemistry, Green News
Elizabeth Grossman

EPA-approved oil dispersants - themselves petroleum-based products with unknown long term impacts - are products of the kind of old thinking and outdated design that got us into this mess in the first place.

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Parents of America: WAKE UP! Our Kids are Sick

Christopher Gavigan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Plastics, Toxic Chemicals, A Wake-Up Story, Facebook, Parents, Healthy Child Healthy World, Congress, Pregnancy, Parenting, Tcsa, Green Chemistry, Impact News
Christopher Gavigan

For almost 20 years, the nonprofit Healthy Child Healthy World has witnessed millions of parents learn that their homes, their environments, and their bodies have been contaminated by toxic chemicals.

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Fat, Stupid, Impotent & Dangerous: The Future Without Green Chemistry

Elizabeth Grossman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Public Health, Endocrine Disruptors, Chemical Exposure, Bisphenol A, Consumer Product Safety, Homeland Security, Green Chemistry, Green News
Elizabeth Grossman

The mere presence of chemicals linked to health disorders does not mean disease will result. Yet research scientists and medical professionals now say that based on the evidence, there is reason to be concerned.

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Schwarzenegger's new "Benign by Design" Platform

Christopher Gavigan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Toxic Chemicals, California, Copenhagen 2009, Reach, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Climate Change Summit, Cradle-to-Cradle, Sustainable Architecture Innovator William McDonough, Safer-Chemicals-Healthy-Families, Tsca, Denmark, Green Chemistry, Healthy Child Healthy World, Green News
Christopher Gavigan

Schwarzenegger announced a partnership between California and Denmark to rotect consumers against chemical exposure. Congress should look to California for an example of proactive action and prioritizing human health.

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Recycling Plastic: What a Waste

Lisa Kaas Boyle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Environmental, Recycle, Styrene, Gyre, Single Use Plastics, Plastic-Pollution, Bpa, Reuse, Body Burden, Birth Defects, Cancer, Plastic Bottles, Petrochemical, Phthalates, Green Chemistry, Sups, Green News
Lisa Kaas Boyle

Every day, single-use plastics ("SUPs" bottles, bags, packaging, utensils, etc.) made from petrochemicals are thrown away in huge quantities after one use, but they will last virtually forever.

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Putting Personal Back in Personal Care

Lauren Fornes | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Whole Foods Market, Face Parlour, Skincare, Supplements, Pangea Organics, Dr. Hauschka, Green Living, Aubry Organics, Precautionary Principle, Zero Waste Packaging, Search of the Cause, Premium Body Care, Whole Body, Labeling Standards, faceparlour.com, Jeremiah McElwee, Lauren Fornes, Skin Care, Green Chemistry, Alaffia, Ikove, Eco-Cert, Style News
Lauren Fornes

No one seems more passionate about regulating the rhetoric of skincare than Jeremiah McElwee, who recently helped to launch the company's Premium Body Care standard for Whole Foods.

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