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New Report Looks at the Regulatory Challenges of the Use of Nanomaterials in Food Packaging

Engineered nanoscale materials (ENMs), which contain novel properties that offer potential benefits for use in food packaging, raise new safety evaluation challenges for regulators and industry, according to a report rel...

25 Jun 2008

Ethanol Industry Fights Back at Oil Industry Assaults on the Benefits of Biofuels

The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries is taxing the industrial world into a global depression and Big Oil is behind this year's vicious assaults on corn-based ethanol. The world's largest ethanol ...

24 Jun 2008

Cereplast Compostables Bio Based, Sustainable Plastic Resins Meet Federal Procurement Guidelines for Bio Based Content

Cereplast, manufacturer of proprietary bio-based, sustainable plastics, announced that products made from Cereplast Compostables resins meet new federal procurement guidelines for bio-based content

19 Jun 2008

Biotechnology is the Key to Sustainable Industries

Despite recent controversies over crop-based biofuels, biotechnology offers some of the best opportunities to create a more sustainable world, with applications as diverse as new sources of energy, new materials for industrial and consumer uses, and high quality agricultural products with better production economics

18 Jun 2008

Choosing our Tomorrows, A Film Set in the Future Looks at What If Scenarios for Climate Change

Choosing our Tomorrows, is a film that explores what life could be like in 2050 through the video diaries of the same Scottish farming family as they experience three very different futures...

17 Jun 2008

Project Aims to Reduce Deforestation and Lung Disease

In many villages throughout Tibet, there are two ways to cook a meal. There's the traditional open fire, fueled by yak dung or the region's increasingly scarce wood. And then there are solar cookers, concentrating mirrors made of two-inch-thick concrete and covered with a mosaic of small glass mirrors.

15 Jun 2008

Scientists Support Plan but Urge Initiatives to Protect Biodiversity

Conserving biodiversity must be considered when developing plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation, researchers warn in today's edition of Science.

13 Jun 2008

Industry Maintain Ethanol is Not Source of Food Inflation and World Hunger

More than 4,000 international ethanol industry professionals will gather at the 24th Annual International Fuel Ethanol Workshop + Expo (FEW), June 16 - 19, at the Gaylord Opryland Resort in Nashville to improve and expand an industry on the defense, according to conference organizers BBI International, a service company providing worldwide renewable energy solutions and specializing in project development, media, and events.

12 Jun 2008

Simple Energy Savings Tips to Consumers Looking for Ways to Cut Energy Bills

Looking for ways to save money? Look no further than your kitchen. The Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers (AHAM) offers these simple energy savings tips to consumers looking for ways to cut energy bills this summer.

12 Jun 2008

PVC Shower Curtains are Potentially Toxic to the Health of Consumers

Results from a two-phase study released today by the Center for Health, Environment + Justice, a non-profit organization dedicated to preventing environmental health harms caused by chemical threats, show that shower curtains made with polyvinyl chloride (PVC) plastic contain many harmful chemicals including volatile organic compounds (VOCs), phthalates and organotins.

12 Jun 2008