by Gil Friend | Dec 26, 2002 | Sustainability
G.E. Research Returns to Roots. A team of researchers for G.E. are hoping to usher in an era of cheap, clean-burning lights, batteries, solar cells and the beginning of plastic-based electronics. By Claudia H. Deutsch. [New York Times: Science] For G.E., that change...
by Gil Friend | Dec 23, 2002 | Sustainability
Patent Drift and Property Rights Tom Abate gets the title right: Agriculture, biotech mix uncomfortably He poses a key question: Schmeiser grew patented seeds. But he did not steal them from the seed store. Whose fault is it that Monsanto’s seeds grew on...
by Gil Friend | Dec 23, 2002 | Sustainability
More on e-waste Cell-Phone Makers Sign Life-Cycle Management Initiative Major mobile-phone manufacturers have signed a declaration expressing their interest in cooperating with the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and...
by Gil Friend | Dec 21, 2002 | Sustainability
Donating Technology’s Castaways. One way to help the environment, and to possibly save a little on your tax bill this year, is to donate your old gadgets to charity….Yet only about 5 percent of discarded PC’s are being donated to charities or...
by Gil Friend | Dec 21, 2002 | Sustainability
Europe Limits Cod Fishing, but Rejects Ban. Fisheries ministers of the European Union agreed on Friday to cut fishing fleets in hopes of saving dwindling cod stocks. By The New York Times. [New York Times: Science] Similar overfishing all but erased cod from North...
by Gil Friend | Dec 17, 2002 | Sustainability
Carbon Emissions Climbing [Earth Policy Institute]: Though economic growth slowed throughout much of the world during 2001, world carbon emissions from burning fossil fuels continued their relentless upward trend, surpassing 6.5 billion tons. (See data.) As a result...
