Chemistry for a sustainable world

CTSI, the Clean Technology and Sustainable Industries Organization, is organizing CTSI Policy Day in Washington D.C. on March 5, 2008. CTSI is a non-profit organization that acts in support of sustainable technologies and “reduced footprint” technologies, including a wide range of topics.

Under sustainable technologies, CTSI lists the obvious renewable energy sources, but goes much [...]

Original story by Alexis Madrigal of the Wired Blog network (click on “read more” below).
If we made the globe warm, we can make the globe cool. That’s the premise and promise of geoengineering, the name given to intentional attempts to alter the climate.
“Ken Buesseler a senior scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute spoke on [...]

It is nice to see that Air Products has discovered a way for removing mercury and acid rain components from coal-fired electrical plants and other coal-burning facilities. I wonder how practical this will be? Air Products is certainly a very capable and innovative company. From Yahoo News:
“Air Products is a world leader in the [...]

Please read the story that my previous post links to on cities that are taking various approaches to sustainability. I applaud these cities on their effort, risk, expenditure and cooperation…
but I’d like to hear what people think about the cities’ actual solutions!
Since I can barely find people who agree on anything regarding alternative fuel, [...]

Brandon Keim reports for Wired on a Corporate Code of Conduct announced by Climos, a climate engineering firm involved in using iron to “seed”, or fertilize, growth of carbon dioxide-fixing plankton in oceans. This code of conduct, while voluntary and non-binding, is a welcome step in an R&D area that reminds one scientist of [...]

Peaks Island in Casco Bay, off Portland, Maine. Photo by S. R. Shray, used with permission, some rights reserved, 2007
Please check out Treehugger.com for a huge collection of articles, discussion forums, practical tips and wildly utopian but stimulating ideas for helping the environment.
The site also has treehuggertv for video reports (haven’t watched any yet).
As [...]

Because of another major lawsuit regarding the use of RSS feeds as reported by PCWORLD.com, this time by the Associated Press against Verisign’s Moreover news aggregation service, I have for the moment deleted my feed of selected world headlines on environmental and Green Chemistry topics from this site’s blogroll. This is a nonprofit site [...]

Go to the Science Friday home page and look for the Oct 4, 2007 (Hour 1) show on Biofuels to listen to the Podcast.
Also, check out my blogroll (under Science) for a link to the Science Friday Kids’ Connection, an educational resource for grades 6-8.
Let me know what you think! Thanks, as always, for [...]

Japan reduced CO2 emissions by about 1.4 million tons last year, in part by cutting back on air conditioning. This was made more comfortable by dispensing with the business suit and tie culture.
However, extensive commercial building and increases in transportation are making it difficult for Japan to meet its promises for the future.
Also in [...]

The above image is uncredited and was found on the site Environment Canada.
As reported by Reuters, the German utilities company RWE is the largest polluter in Europe. RWE has just announced plans to work with two other companies, Linde and BASF, to scrub CO2 (carbon dioxide) from emissions of its coal-burning operations. The [...]