UCLA Biotech Lab goes Green

Not directly a science article, but an article on a research lab that wants to go green, and faces some difficult challenges:

Teamwork helps lab go green

IEEE Power & Energy Society

A colleague pointed me to the following IEEE society:
IEEE Power & Energy Society

Looks very interesting. I have to see what kind of paper's they published at their conferences...

Paper or Plastic?

Who doesn't know this question after you went shopping for groceries? This is not a 100% academic science article, but still an interesting read and breakdown on how paper and plastic bags are produced:

Paper Bags or Plastic Bags? Everything You Need to Know

The conclusion in short: Both are bad. Use reusable cloth bags!

Ocean Power Catches a Wave

Found this interesting article in IEEE Spectrum: Ocean Power Catches a Wave. It discusses the implementation and test of wave energy harvesting power plants.

Even more interesting is David M. Clemen's comment on it:

I find this article to be a little disingenuous. It states that New Zealand...

The article also quotes a person from the Electric Power Research Institute in Palo Alto. Seems to be an interesting company. I have to do some more research on them to see what they exactly are doing.