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Are the voices of caution about nanomaterials giving us a justified wake-up call? Or just crying wolf? By Paul M. Bray
by Emily Rabin
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i>Scientific American has honored 50 individuals, teams, companies, and other organizations whose recent accomplishments point toward a brighter technological future for everyone.
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Mitsubishi Corporation chairman Minoru Makihara has announced a new company policy of endorsing third-party certification for all of its forest-product operations.
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Kentucky-based Ris Paper Company has received Forest Stewardship Council chain-of-custody certification for paper products made in 17 of its 26 locations in the U.S. The certification is part Rainforest Alliance’s SmartWood program.
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Mutual of Omaha has long been concerned with wildlife preservation. Known for their Wild Kingdom television show and Wildlife Heritage Center, the highly respected insurance firm has invested a considerable amount of time and money into promoting environmental causes. Therefore, it was only natural that they would want an environmentally friendly floorcovering when it came time to replace their worn carpet. By Lee Schilling
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How does a company with annual revenues in the billions and more than 700 contract factories worldwide profitably integrate ecology and social equity into the way it does business, every day and at every level of operation? Ask Nike. By William Mcdonough and Michael Braungart
by Emily Rabin
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Scientists at DuPont have discovered a new chemical process for converting hydrocarbons to fluorocarbons -- without generating waste.
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Electronics giants Panasonic, Sharp, and Sony Electronics have announced their participation in a new program sponsored by Nxtcycle, a leading recycler of electronic products.
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Traditional dyes are back in business in India. Following the import ban on certain hazardous chemical or azo dyes, Indian business has woken up to meet the export demand. However, without adequate consumer demand to drive research into large-scale cultivation of dye-yielding plants, natural dyes are yet to become popular in the domestic market.
by Emily Rabin
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The U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory has developed a hydraulic system for trucks that uses vegetable oil in place of more common petroleum-based fluids.
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What role does the practice and communication of corporate social responsibility (CSR) play in creating value for a company? Echo Research, an international reputation analysis firm, attempted to answer this question in its second annual report on CSR.
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An estimated 130 million cell phones are retired annually in the U.S., according to a new report, prepared by national environmental research organization INFORM, that offers design and disposal-related recommendations for reducing the environmental impact of cell phones.
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Wait a minute, you might say: it’s environmentalism against technology? Positioning environmentalism against technology, however, has its problems.
by Brad Allenby
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Herman Miller, Inc., a provider of office furniture and workplace consulting services, has announced that it’s making measurable progress in its efforts to design and manufacture more environmentally responsible products, especially through its Design for the Environment project launched last year.
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The United Nations Environment Program has announced a new collaboration with the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, aimed at helping governments, businesses, and consumers to adopt more environmently friendly policies, practices, and lifestyles.
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The Xerox Corporation has announced that its efforts to design environmentally friendly products and manufacturing processes over the past ten years have resulted in more than $2 billion of costs saved or avoided, and the equivalent of 1.8 million printers and copiers reused or recycled.
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DuPont and EarthShell Corporation have announced a strategic alliance aimed at developing environmentally preferable packaging for the $1 billion global market for food-service packaging.
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Cargill Dow LLC has announced the grand opening of the world’s first global-scale manufacturing facility capable of making commercial-grade plastic resins from annually renewable resources such as ordinary field corn.
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Manufacturers of electrical or electronic equipment Europe would be individually responsible for financing “take-back” schemes for discarded electrical and electronic equipment, under the latest EU Environment Committee version of the draft European directive on waste electrical and electronic equipment .
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Cashing in on the continent's obsession, a growing number of companies like Yokohama Metals are mining used cellphones for the platinum, silver, and even gold embedded in the guts of phones.
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Small to medium-sized enterprises have zero knowledge or understanding of the impact of two forthcoming European directives designed to reduce the impact of waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) by forcing producers to take responsibility, say organizations engaged in educating British industry. However, help is now at hand, through a three-year program that has investigated what companies can do.
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The steel industry has unveiled a conceptual design for steel-intensive compact and mid-size cars that it says would make cars more efficient to produce and drive.
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In what’s being billed as a boon for the health care industry, a Dutch database just translated into English offers environmentally preferable alternatives for nearly all uses of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) plastics.