News tagged with green products
Buying green can be license for bad behavior, study finds
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 07, 2009 |
4 / 5 (3) |
3
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.
Corporations can profit from being environmentally friendly
Jul 15, 2008 |
3.7 / 5 (3) |
0
Though many policymakers have argued that environmental regulations can negatively impact an organization's bottom line, a new study by George Mason University researcher Nicole Darnall shows that companies that develop green ...
Search results for green products
The e-waste dilemma
Nov 24, 2009 |
5 / 5 (2) |
0
(PhysOrg.com) -- Electronic devices could create significant environmental and health problems after they are thrown away. UC Irvine researchers are working with engineers, manufacturers and public health ...
How green is your house? Recycling favorite activity among Brits says new survey
Nov 23, 2009 |
1 / 5 (1) |
3
Seventy percent of households always separate their rubbish for recycling, but only 2 percent buy their energy on a green tariff, according to the early findings of a major new annual household survey, called "Understanding ...
Let them eat snail
Nov 19, 2009 |
not rated yet |
0
A nutritionist in Nigeria says that malnutrition and iron deficiency in schoolchildren could be reduced in her country by baking up snail pie. In a research paper to be published in the International Journal of Food Safety, Nu ...
Promising pharmaceutical agents emerge as sports doping products
Medicine & Health / Medications
Nov 19, 2009 |
not rated yet |
0
Researchers from the German Sport University Cologne in Germany found that non-steroidal and tissue-selective anabolic agents such as Selective Androgen Receptor Modulators (SARMs) are being sold on the black market for their ...
Green heating and cooling technology turns carbon from eco-villain to hero
Nov 10, 2009 |
3.7 / 5 (3) |
1
Carbon is usually typecast as a villain in terms of the environment but researchers at the University of Warwick have devised a novel way to miniaturise a technology that will make carbon a key material in ...
Study says dogs have larger carbon footprint than SUV
Nov 04, 2009 |
2.3 / 5 (10) |
5
Thanks for killing the planet, dog owners. Well, that's a rough paraphrase of a New Zealand study that claims a medium-size dog leaves a larger ecological footprint than an SUV.
Common plants can eliminate indoor air pollutants
Nov 04, 2009 |
4.3 / 5 (6) |
1
Air quality in homes, offices, and other indoor spaces is becoming a major health concern, particularly in developed countries where people often spend more than 90% of their time indoors. Surprisingly, indoor ...
Eco-friendly metal coating replacement for chromate
Oct 30, 2009 |
5 / 5 (2) |
1
(PhysOrg.com) -- CSIRO has developed a novel coating technology, "Quench Coat", to protect galvanised products from 'white rust' ? the form of zinc oxide that tarnishes freshly galvanised coatings, making ...
Scientists Cryopreserve Pest-Imperiled Ash Trees
Oct 28, 2009 |
4.3 / 5 (4) |
0
(PhysOrg.com) -- Using cryopreservation methods, Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists have devised a procedure for storing frozen budwood from ash trees (Fraxinus) and thawing the delicate buds for ...
Novartis denies problems with swine flu vaccine
Medicine & Health / Medications
Oct 26, 2009 |
not rated yet |
0
Swiss pharmaceutical group Novartis on Monday denied that it faced hurdles in gaining regulatory approval in Switzerland for one of its swine flu vaccines because of possible bacterial contamination.
List of search results for green products
