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Gas Grills Found to be More Environmentally Friendly Than Charcoal Fired Barbecues

Do biofuels always create smaller carbon footprints than their fossil-fuel competitors? Not necessarily, a new report shows the carbon footprint for charcoal grilling is almost three times as large as that for LPG grilling

12 May 2009

Arylessence Fragrances Organic, Natural, Kosher and Parve

Arylessence, Inc., the innovative fragrance creative house, has expanded its organic and natural fragrance capability to provide natural product manufacturers with a new selection of highest-quality fragrances to meet the ongoing demand by consumers for pure, natural, non-artificial products

12 May 2009

Sustainable Packaging Demonstration Runs Done by Dow Adhesives and Nordmeccanica

To recognize the contributions sustainable packaging can make in reducing the packaging industry’s carbon footprint, Dow Adhesives and Functional Polymers business team and Nordmeccanica NA hosted a day-long series of trial demonstrations for package converters

12 May 2009

RFA Responds to TIME Magazine Article Against Biofuels

In the Renewable Fuels Association’s ongoing effort to let no unsubstantiated claim about ethanol and America’s renewable fuels industry go unanswered, RFA President and CEO Bob Dinneen sent the following letter to the editors of Time Magazine, once again objecting to the unbalanced and factually inaccurate reporting/editorializing on biofuels by Michael Grunwald

12 May 2009

Grasslands Needed To Ensure Sustainable Agriculture

Authors of a new book explain why grassland should be a permanent component of our ecosystem for ensuring the future of sustainable agriculture

12 May 2009

Better BioFuels Is In the Genes

Acquiring cheap genome sequence data can improve the quality of feedstocks used to create biofuels, according to a new study published in The Plant Genome

12 May 2009

Climate Change To Destroy Coral and The Lives of 100 Million People Before the End of the Century

If the world does not take effective action on climate change, coral reefs will disappear from the Coral Triangle by the end of the century, the ability of the region’s coastal environments to feed people will decline by 80 per cent, and the livelihoods of around 100 million people will have been lost or severely impacted

12 May 2009