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Making biofuels from seawater rather than crude oil

Envirotec Magazine

Dr Malone said unlike the biofuels we know today, which are dependent on agricultural land to produce corn and sugar beets, bio-production in seawater would avoid ethical concerns of ‘fuel vs food’. Biotechnology- reducing environmental impact.

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Fixing an inconvenient truth: A solution to unsustainable PCB metals extraction

Envirotec Magazine

Furthermore, all concerned must pursue ethical and sustainable product end of life recycling practices. With this, a key success factor in effectively closing the loop is a more sustainable and ethical method of extraction and recovery of PCB materials.

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TED Talk: Possible Futures from the Intersection of Nature, Tech, and Society

Sustainability Consulting

Faber Futures is also combining the study of open-source data on the human microbiome with the ethics of DNA mining. This is already happening in the field of biotechnology for consumer goods where drop-in replacements for harmful ingredients ignore that broader context and reinforce social and ecological inequities.

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Should we genetically edit the food we eat? Two experts offer their thoughts

Business Green

We also work to improve plant biotechnologies and have contributed to proof-of-concept studies demonstrating that genome editing can be used to develop useful traits in barley, brassica and potatoes by deleting just a few letters of DNA. There's also the question of whether it is ethically correct for companies to own life.

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The American chestnut tree is coming back. Who is it for?

Grist

For years, controversy has swirled around the ethics of using novel biotechnology for species conservation. Because biotechnology alone can’t restore the American chestnut to the numbers that its supporters are envisioning, Powell anticipates relying on citizen scientists. (Transgenic organisms contain DNA from other species.)

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Synterex: Clinical Service Provider That Gives Back to the Environment and Society

Green Business Bureau

The brand works with pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies to help them get new therapies to patients as quickly and efficiently as possible. Before a new drug or medical treatment can be given to patients, it must first be approved by a regulatory organization such as the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

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Lamps by Biohm are made from coffee and orange peel

AGreenLiving

And, therefore, to create ethically-sourced and locally-fabricated high-performance sustainable products. Their approach is to apply principles of biomimetics, or systematically applying the ecological laws of nature , to create products and manufacturing approaches that innovate across the entire manufacturing life cycle.