Greenpeace gave Clorox a pat on the back today for phasing out the use of deadly chlorine gas for making bleach at its seven US plants. Not only is this move to safer chemical processes better for the environment, it lowers the ...READ»
Hemp, soy, mustard, sunflower and palm oil can all be used to make biofuels, so why not elephant dung and World War Two-era fungus? Copenhagen-based Danisco A/S is using the fungus, which was discovered during WWII eating soldier's ...READ»
DuPont is working on an insect repellent based on nepeta cataria--better known as catnip--and it's the first new biopesticide to be registered by the company in eight years. It won't get you high, but DuPont's repellent works ...READ»
