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Scorpion Venom Strikes at Pain Without Morphine's Addictive Sting
Scorpion venom could lead the way to morphine alternatives without side effects like addiction, according to research at Tel Aviv University. Read More
Shell-Based Ceramics, Bone Cars, and Other Biomimicry Challenges
Biomimicry has the potential to improve ceramics, cars and other objects with materials that copy the strength of clam shells and bones, but such investigations will also need to look at the end-of-life for those materials. Read More
EPA Takes Action on Gender-Bending BPA
The U.S. EPA will list bisphenol A - a chemical found in hard plastic, can liners and other items -- as a chemical of concern and require manufacturers to provide data on its environment impacts. Read More
What a Thorny Devil and Camel Nose Can Teach Us About Water
The issue of water and how best to use it touches every aspect of our lives. As varied as the challenges are, many of them have already been faced by other organisms, and many of their solutions - provided by crabs, beetles, plants and blood plasma - are worth studying. Read More
Water's Place in Cradle to Cradle Thinking
Water efficiency and quality are two of the key points of Cradle to Cradle certification, but how companies work towards ideal water use depends on their products, operations and location. Read More
Recycled Pizza Boxes Hungry For a Bigger Slice of the Market
The GreenBox pizza box, made of 100 percent recycled content and designed to reduce waste, has been picked up for nationwide distribution by FoodBizSupply.com. Read More
Swiss Army Slashes Plastic From Knife Packaging
Swiss Army is switching from all-plastic clamshell packaging for its knives to a mostly-paperboard package with a small plastic bubble. Read More
Bayer's Box-Free Bottles: Less Packaging, Different Materials
For close to a year, some Bayer and Aleve products have been sold as stand-alone bottles instead of bottles inside boxes. While reducing the amount of packaging material, the move also changed the cap and label materials. Read More
Toyota and the Future of Green Marketing
What does Toyota's travails mean to green marketing? That's a question that seems ripe these days, as the leading Japanese auto maker gets a comeuppance for its allegedly serious safety defects. Here are four possible scenarios. Read More
Online Directory Links Plastic Waste Buyers and Sellers
PlasticsMarkets.org, an online directory for buyers and sellers of plastic scrap, has been expanded with a wider scope of materials, scrap pricing and an improved search feature. Read More