Georgia Power and two metro Atlanta Kroger food stores recently teamed up to provide shoppers with energy efficiency information and $1 off coupons on General Electric compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs). Senior citizen patrons received an additional 5 percent discount.
Climate scientists using computer models to simulate the 1930s Dust Bowl on the U.S Great Plains have found that dust raised by farmers probably amplified and spread a natural drop in rainfall, turning an ordinary drying cycle into an agricultural collapse.
Too much of a good thing could be harmful to the environment. For years, scientists have known about silver's ability to kill harmful bacteria and, recently, have used this knowledge to create consumer products containing silver nanoparticles.
Energy crop company Ceres, Inc. plans to market its agricultural seeds and traits under the trade name Blade Energy Crops in the United States. Company president and CEO Richard Hamilton unveiled the new brand at the BIO World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology in Chicago earlier today.
Australian researchers are a step closer to turning plants into 'biofactories' capable of producing oils which can be used to replace petrochemicals used to manufacture a range of products.
Whether you live in a cardboard box or a luxurious mansion, whether you subsist on homegrown vegetables or wolf down imported steaks, whether you're a jet-setter or a sedentary retiree, anyone who lives in the U.S. contributes more than twice as much greenhouse gas to the atmosphere as those living in the rest of the world.
In America, and in most developed countries of the world, we buy and discard lots and lots of packaging. In the United States 10 percent - one of every 10 dollars we spend on purchases - goes toward the packaging that contains the things we buy.
Sustainability was on the minds of many of today’s speakers at the World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology and Bioprocessing, an annual conference attracting more than 1200 scientists, business leaders, and government officials that began in full today in Chicago.
Eco-Solution, which is specialized in the treatment of persistent industrial pollutants in the environment, today announces the launch of a new technology platform: this platform is based on the control of Directed Evolution, a technology developed by Eco-Solution for the high-throughput selection of natural variants of microbial strains with improved properties.
Applying lessons learned in the classroom, eighth grade students from Denison (Iowa) Middle School have developed a mini-car that is powered by solar energy.
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