Chemistry for a sustainable world

“Minimizing waste, pollution, and natural resource depletion does not represent a strategy for long-term success; it simply makes the current destructive system sustainable.”
Mr. McDonough addresses issues from biodiversity to specific sustainability approaches in China. He distinguishes efficiency and diversity in nature from those qualities in man-made materials, and describes textiles now “clean enough [...]

The blog Green Eggs and Planet has a series of articles on practical Green ideas including descriptions of Green Building, Green Building Materials, Green Gardening and City Planning, and different ways to use Solar Energy, from solar heating to solar cells for electricity.
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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, [...]

“It shouldn’t shock you to hear that I receive a lot of pitches for this blog. (Which is a very good thing for ideas, actually, so keep them coming.) One trend I’ve noticed is that many of what I call the “real” green-tech efforts and experiments are very locally focused….”
by Harry Fuller and Heather Clancy [...]

50 Ways to Green Your Business
Half-a-hundred options for cleaning up your business, from the universal (catch that rainwater!) to the specific (lose the plastic bowls!). Mix, match–join in.
By: Mark Borden, Jeff Chu, Charles Fishman, Michael A. Prospero, and Danielle Sacks | Photographs By: Steve Bronstein of fastcompany.com

The above article [...]