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Economic slump hits recyclables

You would think that recyclable materials and chemicals should do well with manufacturers and retailers looking for cheaper and more environment-friendly alternatives during a global economic recession. Unfortunately the excess waste of the economic boom era as well as the current weak demand for products...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-20-2008
Oil weaning should be shared

I was watching the show 60 Minutes where the US President-elect Obama was being interviewed for the first time after winning the election. According to Obama, despite that the price of oil has gone down energy and a green economy will remain at the forefront of his agenda along with trying to fix the...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-17-2008
Greenhouse gas on the rise

A report from NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) said methane emission in the atmosphere is on the rise again across the globe. The rise in Northern Hemispheric emissions may be a result of very warm conditions over Siberia throughout 2007, potentially leading to increased bacterial...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-03-2008
Green packaging is hot

ICIS Chemical Business released this Monday its feature on packaging and from what the magazine's editors have found out is that sustainability is definitely becoming more ingrained within this industry mostly driven by consumer demand. The benefits of cost-cutting and energy saving also add to packaging...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-24-2008
Drilling to save the environment

Here is another interesting economic analysis (with a little facts and numbers for those who like hard data) from the New York Times on US offshore drilling . According to Robert Hahn, director of the Reg-Markets Center at the American Enterprise Institute, and Peter Passell, senior fellow at the Milken...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-15-2008
Brits claim greener sense

An online green study from global market research firm TNS reported that 51% of the UK population rated their own natural environment as 'excellent' to 'good' while 71% rated the rest of the world's environment as 'poor' or at best 'fair'. The report said 51% of the...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-28-2008
China's green revolution

Here's a nice interesting insight from my colleague John Richardson about China's fast track towards becoming the world's leader in clean technologies. If you're an ICIS subscriber ( about ICIS ), you can access the whole article in this link . Or you can also read the unedited somewhat...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-25-2008
Next decade's weather forecast: BAD

Summer this year in New York has seen several weeks of downpours and continuous heat and humidity, and the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said you ain't seen nothin' yet. The EPA released its climate change report last month and noted that continued global warming could likely increase...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-07-2008
Enter the dead zones

The volume of hypoxic zones, also called "dead zones", in the Gulf of Mexico and Chesapeake Bay are expected to be record-setting this summer according to a University of Michigan researcher . Hypoxia refers to the loss of oxygen in water, which then leads to unsustainable conditions for aquatic...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-24-2008
Humans are to blame?

For those who think global warming is just nature's way of being grumpy, US physicists are saying otherwise and reaffirmed that humans are to blame for the future mess the world is going to be in. "Emissions of greenhouse gases from human activities are changing the atmosphere in ways that affect...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-22-2008

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