News tagged with green products

Destructive citrus greening disease affecting Florida

Urgency, cooperation, and persistent management are needed among producers, processors, government officials, and scientists while solutions are developed and implemented to combat the citrus greening disease threatening ...

Biology / Ecology

created Mar 23, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Ore. town uses geothermal energy to stay warm

(AP) -- When snow falls on this downtown of brick buildings and glass storefronts in southern Oregon, it piles up everywhere but the sidewalks. It's the first sign that this timber and ranching town is like few others.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Mar 20, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (12) | comments 8

Researcher finds people will forgo luxury for green products when status is on mind

Environmentally friendly products are everywhere one looks. Energy efficient dishwashers, bamboo towels, the paperless Kindle and, of course, the ubiquitous Prius are all around. But why do people buy these "green" products? ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Mar 15, 2010 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Eat your greens: they can prevent the ill-effects of toxins in foods

(PhysOrg.com) -- LLNL researchers have found that a small dose of chlorophyll or chlorophyllin, found in green leafy vegetables, could reverse the effects of aflatoxin poisoning, a potent, naturally occurring ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 25, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Scientists Use Self-Assembly to Make Molecule-Sized Particles With Patches of Charge

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists, chemists and engineers at the University of Pennsylvania have demonstrated a novel method for the controlled formation of patchy particles, using charged, self-assembling molecules ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Buying green can be license for bad behavior, study finds

Those lyin', cheatin' green consumers. Just being around green products can make us behave more altruistically, a new study to be published in a forthcoming issue of Psychological Science has found.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Oct 07, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 3

Green production guidelines give 'road map' for new administration

With good directions, anyone can find the right path. That's what George Mason University Professor Nicole Darnall is hoping with her new report that gives clear guidelines on how the government can help businesses ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Sep 01, 2009 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

EPEAT green electronics registry goes international

The Green Electronics Council on Monday went international with a registry that shows how computers and monitors measure up when it comes to being Earth-friendly.

Technology / Business

created Aug 10, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New study shows how spikes in nitrite can have

A new study provides insight into how a short burst in nitrite can exert lasting beneficial effects on the heart, protecting it from stress and assaults such as heart attacks. In this study, just published in Circulation Re ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Mar 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Schwarzenegger, 'green' gadgets at giant high-tech fair

The world's biggest high-tech fair kicks off Tuesday hosting guest-of-honour Arnold Schwarzenegger and offering cutting-edge solutions promising to beat the economic crisis as well as climate change.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Mar 01, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (10) | comments 0

Lost in translation: Perfectionist protein-maker trashes errors

The enzyme machine that translates a cell's DNA code into the proteins of life is nothing if not an editorial perfectionist.

Biology /

created Jan 07, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0


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