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Green Japan preview

Here is a sneak peek of my incoming article "Green Chemicals Movement in Japan" for ICIS Chemical Business ' October 27 issue. This is an excerpt of my interview with Junko Edahiro, co-founder and co-chief executive of the non-profit group Japan for Sustainability (JFS) . -------------...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-09-2008
Lithium hazards in the air

The green blogger is back although still shaken from the aftermath of hurricane "office work". Before beginning to scan the world wide green news, this tidbit of information from the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) caught the attention of the blog, which might make someone think twice...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-08-2008
No plastic bag ban from Wal-Mart

Much to the relief of the chemical and plastic manufacturing community , the big box retailer giant Wal-Mart opts to reduce, reuse and recycle instead of implementing plastic shopping bag bans. Yesterday, Wal-Mart announced its goal to reduce its global plastic shopping bag waste by an average of 33...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-26-2008
Plug-Ins better than hybrids

Here's a year-long study from San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) proving that a plug-in electric vehicle has more advantages than a standard hybrid and more so over the current traditional cars. Here are some of their selling points: The plug-in hybrid achieved 67 MPG, a 60-percent increase...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-25-2008
NGOs' chemical list for dummies

Public activists and non-government organizations especially in Europe seem to know more about the risks and hazards of specific chemical products more than the chemical producers and consumers themselves. Take for example the list of "high concern" chemicals called the Reach SIN list 1.0 provided...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-22-2008
States of the green nation

Sustainlane.com, an online community focusing on sustainable living, released today its top green US cities for the year based on their ability to maintain healthy air, drinking water, parks and public transit systems, as well as a robust, sustainable local economy with green building, farmers markets...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-22-2008
Market crash in 2025

My colleague John Richardson looked at his crystal ball and saw history repeating itself, this time with another financial collapse in 2025 involving greedy green brokers, government ignorance on carbon technology, bubble collapse in green home mortgages, fake carbon certifications, and questionable...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-19-2008
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
Here comes China melamine..again

After a spectacular Olympic event in China, you'd kind of forget some of the tainted food and consumer goods problems that the country faced before then. Unfortunately, there has been another recent tainted food problem going around in China and this time it affected infant formulas. According to...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-12-2008
Regulatory and sustainability in cosmetics

On the second day of the HBA cosmetic show in New York City as I attended some presentations on their third annual regulatory summit, the buzzwords that frequently circulated throughout the program were green, California, bisphenol-A, phthalates, REACH , consumer advocacy groups, organic, certification...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-11-2008

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