Presentation: Product Stewardship – Lynne Pledger
In one panel, I got upset that all recycling talk was about the consumer and the waste management companies. I asked what about producer responsibility. To my s...
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Presentation: Product Stewardship Session – Kate Hagemann
More on Extended Product Responsibility in the US. Bookmarked in Delicious. Read this article…
Presentation: A Closer Look at Our Garbage – Alan Kirschner
Great study commissioned by the state of MA to find out what was ending up at some of the state's big recycling centers. Already the raw data are starting ...
MassRecycle 2011 Conference Presentations
Presentations from the Organics Waste and Recycling event held at the end of March. It was great and I’ll link to some of the presentations. Bookmarked in...
Less Bad vs. Good : Oscillator
“Should young, bright, and idealistic biotechnology students spend their summer coming up with technologies for oil companies to exploit so that they can ...
Researchers Challenge E. O. Wilson Over Evolutionary Theory – ScienceInsider
“Nowak is convinced that his critics haven’t really done inclusive fitness calculations or they would understand the theory’s limitations. ...
Old Style Marketing vs Social Evidence
Traditional marketing ain’t dead yet. Old skool, that’s how we roll I was in a meeting last month and one marketing manager’s idea of promoting a sponsor was to...
Are scientists afraid of blogs and tweets?
Nature has a nice wee article (no subscription required to read this one, FTW!) on the state of what one might call “informal” peer review – t...
Functional roles for noise in genetic circuits
I have a thing about noise (see my ramblings here). And as folks try to turn elements of biological circuits into well-behaving engineered parts, I’ve been tryi...
The subtlety of life – clever codon usage
Here’s a paper from September I haven’t had a chance to comment on. Zhang et al reported in Science (review, paper – subscription required) how two almost...