Global Assembly Dialog
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The prototype Global Assembly Dialog is an experiment in participatory democracy on the web aimed at massively involving "We the People of the Earth" and leading to the formation of a nonviolent bottom-up Global Assembly with real power to build a world that works for everyone.The Dialog uses a web rating technology to vote on messages written by the partici ...learn more
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Carbon dioxide. Orange peels. Chicken feathers. Olive oil. Potato
peels. E. coli bacteria. It is as if chemists have gone Dumpster diving
in their hunt to make biodegradable, sustainable and renewable
plastics. Most bioplastics are made from plants like corn, soy, sugar
cane and switch grass, but scientists have recently turned to trash in
an effort to make so-called green polymers, essentially plastics from
garbage.
Geoff Coates, a chemist at Cornell, one of the leaders in the creation of green polymers, pointed to a golden brown square of plastic in a drying chamber."It kind of looks like focaccia baking, doesn't it?" Mr. Coates said. "That's almost 50 percent carbon dioxide by weight."
Geoff Coates, a chemist at Cornell, one of the leaders in the creation of green polymers, pointed to a golden brown square of plastic in a drying chamber."It kind of looks like focaccia baking, doesn't it?" Mr. Coates said. "That's almost 50 percent carbon dioxide by weight."
