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  • 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

  • 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

  • Is there such a thing as clean coal?

    While the US Congress is debating on offshore drilling , another debate that has been going on for years is government funding on another supposedly clean energy source, liquid coal. Environmentalists are definitely dead-set against using any types of coal even if they're supposedly clean. Here's...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-14-2008

  • Plastic bag fuss on West Coast

    A lot of plastic news happening in the West Coast particularly in Seattle and Los Angeles that I did not have the time to talk about last week. According to several news sources, the city council of Los Angeles, California, voted a resolution on July 22 to ban all plastic bags from retail stores starting...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-12-2008

  • E-waste export ban introduced

    A bill banning the export of electronic waste to developing nations was introduced last week in Congress by Environment and Hazardous Materials subcommittee chairman Gene Green (D-Texas), and Rep. Mike Thompson (D-Calif.), a member of the Congressional E-waste Working Group. The H.RES.1395 resolution...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-04-2008

  • Views on green cleaning

    ICIS Chemical Business (disclosure: I work for ICIS ) published its second soap and detergent issue for the year and like the first one, the global cleaning industry continue its major focus on sustainability, regulation and innovation. As far as the green cleaning trend goes, eco-labeling seems to be...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-24-2008

  • Carbon Market: The good, the bad and the money

    After finding some of the pros and cons of cap and trade carbon schemes in the US, several studies were recently published on the carbon market's global bottomline: How much should energy-intensive industries pay for compliance. According to market analyst Point Carbon , global carbon markets could...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-03-2008
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