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Ending Oil Dependency with Green Chemistry

By Admin / On August 5th, 2010

Author Elizabeth Grossman writes on Huffington Post, "Can Green Chemistry Get Us Out of Deepwater?" where she challenges society's dependence on petrochemicals for manufactured goods and products. In Grossman’s book Chasing Molecules, she looks inside industrial technologies of many large, brand-name companies.

What's for Dinner

By [node:field_contributor] / On June 26th, 2008

Yesterday, the front page of The New York Times business section ran an article headlined: "Dow Chemical Raises Prices For Second Time in a Month." Citing energy and feedstock costs, Dow raised prices for its products some 25 percent, following an increase last month of 20 percent, the largest such raises in the company's history.