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Ohio launches biosoy program

The State of Ohio is seeing green in soybeans, and not just from food and biofuel applications. The Ohio Soybean Council (OSC) , Ohio Bioproducts Innovation Center (OBIC) and Polymer Ohio , recently launched its "Cell to Sell" soy technology program to accelerate commercialization of soybean...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-19-2008
Dangling the hybrid carrot

According to several news reports, majority of US folks (including Congress) are against bailing out the cash-strapped Big 3 automobile makers -- GM, Ford and privately-held Chrysler -- but there are worries especially within environmental groups if the financial crisis will push development of US electric...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-18-2008
From water to wine

While the bottled water industry is being besieged by environmental groups with its use of plastic bottles, the plastic industry, meanwhile, is finding a miraculous demand coming from the wine market. Several wineries across the globe are switching some of their wines' bottle packaging from glass...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-18-2008
Dow's Energy Plan for America

Maybe our friend amorris19 got something about Dow Chemical's CEO Andrew Liveris being a candidate for Energy Secretary after all. Dow just announced today its own energy plan for America , something like what T. Boone Pickens has been doing before the election but much more expanded to other than...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-14-2008
Melamine in milk? Use zNose

No, I am not talking about using your nose to sniff bad milk odor in grocery shelves for melamine contamination. The California-based company Electronic Sensor Technology (EST) said they have developed a method using their zNose product for detecting and measuring melamine in less than 3 minutes and...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-12-2008
Dow Corning cuts waste

Silicone manufacturer Dow Corning said it made significant progress in reducing their waste partly through its materials conversion program, which converts or recycles its waste, scrap and off-spec silicone materials instead of sending them to landfill or incineration. Materials are then reprocessed...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-05-2008
World Toilet Summit

I was eating breakfast while surfing the web, and thinking of serious election-aftermath stuff to post in the blog when this news about this week's ongoing World Toilet Summit in Macau caught my attention. At first I was amused by the notion of a global toilet expo and all the crappy notions that...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-05-2008
Financial crisis and $60 oil: Now what?

A colleague of mine (and several readers of the green blog) expressed a spreading sentiment of uncertainty whether the current financial crisis and the price downfall of crude oil will put a brake in the investment surge towards renewable energy and other clean technologies. Venture capital investments...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-03-2008
Less emission from hybrid plastic

California-based bioplastic manufacturer Cereplast said the use of its Biopropylene hybrid resin (which can replace up to 50% petroleum-based plastic content) emits 42% less greenhouse gas emission compared to the use of regular polypropylene. In a study by a professor from Michigan State University...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-29-2008
Solar consumer products boom

Wal-Mart is expecting a bigger demand for solar-based consumer products and is already stocking its solar charger kits for sale next year, according to this press release from Canada-based ICP Solar Technologies , a manufacturer of proprietary solar panels and products. ICP said an estimated $1m worth...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-28-2008

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