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Mar
11

Better living through chemistry? Not so much

Remember DuPont’s long-used slogan, “Better Things for Better Living … Through Chemistry”? Or its parody counterpart, “Zinc Oxide and You”
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Mar
11

Green utility crowned for top customer service

A green utility firm in the UK has bucked the odds by winning an award for customer service, something small-business
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Mar
10

Feed-in tariffs could foster a 'Silicon Valley of the UK'

An initiative from the Department of Energy and Climate Change due to launch across the UK on April 1 looks
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Mar
10

How to cut energy use, carbon? One Rosenfeld at a time

How influential is Arthur Rosenfeld in the field of energy efficiency? So influential that a group of scientists have proposed
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Mar
10

Some guys and Holy Grails: 5 rules for spotting 'cleantech porn'

Do you remember that wonderful moment when the internet was invented? Or when mobile phones suddenly appeared everywhere? Of course
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Mar
09

Why you can't judge a country by its carbon emissions

Just like you can’t judge a book by its cover, it turns out you can’t judge how carbon
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Mar
09

Despite some 'green shoots,' cleantech VCs see trouble ahead

There’s good news and bad news on the cleantech and environmental business front. The good news first: more venture
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Mar
09

Green chemistry could make for easier-to-recycle plastics

US researchers say they might have found a way to more easily recycle plastic bottles or make them safely biodegradable
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Mar
09

The trouble with clean energy $ources

A lot of attention is given to one of the big problems with renewable energy source: intermittency, which refers to
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Mar
05

Weird: Wines with 'organic' labels are valued less

“Green” and organic might be in at the grocery store, but they’re not labels shoppers want to see in
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