136 Articles

Sustainability

Eco Editorial

Posted byby John Tarantino
July 22, 2013

Drop-in Biofuels: The Good, the Bad, and the Missed Opportunity

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A lot of effort and investment are going right now into making drop-in biofuels the next star of environmentally friendly fuels. Very similar to petroleum in structure, these next-generation biofuels…

Sustainability

Posted byby John Tarantino
July 17, 2013

How Private Companies are Key to Saving Brazil’s Other Forest

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Big Business and Biodiversity When the Portuguese explorer Pedro Álvares Cabral first reached the coast of present-day Brazil in April 1500, he found a paradise. Waiting ashore was a vast…

Sustainability

Posted byby John Tarantino
July 12, 2013

Car Free Mackinac Island

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Do you know a place where driving your car on the road is illegal? Well now you can say you do because nestled in between Michigan’s peninsulas is a small…

Sustainability

Posted byby John Tarantino
July 4, 2013

Colony Collapse Disorder: Past, Present, Future

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Past Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) started popping up in the news around 2006. Not many people knew what the problem was attributed to back then, but a lot of people…

Green Technology

Posted byby John Tarantino
July 3, 2013

The Disappearing Package Project

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A box of soap that dissolves in the shower? A pod of detergent you can toss in the washing machine? While big brand names are trying to make their product packaging…

Sustainability

Posted byby John Tarantino
September 18, 2011

The Sustainability of Food Production

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How the world will be fed in coming years is a highly controversial issue. Not only is the world population increasing exponentially, we are also quickly depleting the non-renewable resources…