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I realize I didn’t post yesterday and I apologize. My goal is to post at least one story a day and if I can, post more than that minimum but I fell short the past few days.
Worry not, I have a good reason and one that you’ll be happy about: I’m building a store […]
We love microbe news here at Swye, and this is no different. A small biotech company in Mexico City called AliBio is using the bacteria bacillus subtilis to clean their water in some unique ways. AliBio is using these bacterias for waste water management, agriculture and aquaculture.
From improving treatment systems and making septic tanks […]
Target is planning to launch nine different natural/organic product brands in their 1,591 stores across the country this March. You can already find Burt’s Bees in their stores but they’re also planning these eight others: Alba, Avalon Organics, Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soaps, Giovanni Organic Cosmetics, Jason Natural Products, Juice Organics, Kiss My Face and Weleda.
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We all know that cutting down the rainforests is bad, but now we might have even more reason to believe it. According to co-author Luis Fernando Chaves of the University of Michigan, deforestation may help spread the infectious disease American Cutaneous Leishmaniasis (ACL) in Costa Rica among marginalized populations.
In the past the theory was that […]
The idea of a universal ‘environmentally safe’ label for products that can identify those which are eco-friendly seems like a good idea, right? Not when the label is owned by the very company that creates the products.
That’s exactly what’s happening with SC Johnson’s Greenlist™ label. According to SC Johnson:
The Greenlist™ process provides ratings for more […]
We’ve heard over and over again how fertilizers are bad for the environment for so many reasons and we’re all aware that puberty is starting younger and younger, but there might be a correlation according to a study by Dr. Francesco Massart and his colleagues at the University of Pisa in Italy.
They were researching a […]
Image via USC School of Medicine
E. Coli doesn’t bring up the most comforting of images, but that might soon change if a professor in Texas A&M University has anything to say about it. Thomas Wood, a professor in the Artie Mcferrin Department of Chemical Engineering, is genetically modifying the bacteria in hopes that it […]
When we think of oil spills it congers up images of slick, black birds held in gloved hands and fish floating on an ocean oil-slick, not trees, but that might change.
Chrysler and Perdue University researchers are getting together to create transgenic poplar trees capable of absorbing trichloroethylene, or TCE, including other pollutants and metabolizing them […]
Using magnets in a huge circular track to launch satellites into orbit could make it easier and less wasteful than current methods, say the findings of a U.S. Air Force funded project.
Of course, there are positives and negatives, though the project is still in the research phase. Though proponents say it could prove to be […]
Truth be told, we’re running out of land. Between farmland we already use being overworked and seeing a huge reduction in it’s efficiency, and the amount of land that is simply unfarmable, we are already facing problems. As our cities get more populated and rise ever higher, the demand for products rises as well and […]
