ScienceShot: Green Eggs and Salamanders – ScienceNOW
“This is the first case of an algae living symbiotically within a vertebrate, the team reports online today in the Proceedings of National Academy of Scie...
Category: The Narrative
Book: The Windup Girl, by Paolo Bacigalupi
This is one great book. It’s set a few hundred years in the future, long after the oil-fueled “Exapansion” (that would be the time we are livi...
Report: Current European Biofuel Policies ‘Unethical’ – ScienceInsider
“An E.U.-sponsored certification scheme should adhere to the following principles: * Biofuels development should not be at the expense of human rights * B...
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...
Presentation: Product Stewardship Session – Kate Hagemann
More on Extended Product Responsibility in the US. Bookmarked in Delicious. Read this article…
Presentation: What’s In Your Trash – Michael Alexander
Great presentation on what it would take to get to zero waste. Michael was a great presenter as well. What’s really cool is that the US is hovering around...
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. ...