China: From Red to Green? Design: e2
Design: e2 is a great series from PBS. This episode gives excellent perspective on China‘s growth and its impact on the rest of the world. Innovation and collaboration are essential.
Tainted fish donated to food banks
Subtitle reads: “Anglers will compete this weekend to catch breeding fish that will be swimming upstream through areas some say should be a federal Superfund site.” Click on the title of this post for the whole stor犀利士 y. ELMO
FRONTLINE: poisoned waters | PBS
Watch this, please! Just click on the title link. It’s happening all over the world! What then must be done?
Chemists Celebrate Earth Day
Wednesday, April 22, 2009, is Earth Day. Click the title to learn more about this, and how chemists are getting involved. You can also see a report from last year here.
Is that the kind of world you want?
When I was a lad, John Buchan’s Richard Hannay books were favorites of mine (despite the prejudice sometimes portrayed and to which I was not yet sensitive), and Hannay was an honorable hero to me. Alfred Hitchcock’s movie The 39 Steps was the first version of Buchan’s book. I enjoy all the versions, and this …
Seeing Good: Where to Recycle Everything for Cash – The Bright Side of Life
Here’s a useful site with links allowing one actually to get paid for recycling a variety of goods: electronics, CDs, ink cartridges, etc. Check it out!
China the new GM?!
So now that Detroit is tanking, China hopes to pick up the reins and produce electric cars… (click the title to link to the NY Times story). Unfortunately, they get most of their electricity from COAL! ELMO
Shame on Eastman Chemical – redux
I posted an item here on January 13, 2009, criticizing Eastman Chemical, and I also sent a similar letter to Rudy Baum, the editor of Chemical & Engineering News, which Mr. Baum offered to publish. (I have great respect for Mr. Baum. Indeed, I am forever grateful for his publication of an earlier letter of …