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I'm the Illinois Sustainable Technology Center's Sustainability Information Curator, which is a fancy way of saying embedded librarian. I'm also Executive Director of the Great Lakes Regional Pollution Prevention Roundtable. When not writing for Environmental News Bits, I'm an avid reader. Visit Laura's Reads to see what I'm currently reading.
Opinion: The Great Recycling Con
Watch the video from the New York Times. In the Video Op-Ed above, we debunk a recycling myth that has lulled us into guilt-free consumption
New sustainable label material based on grass paper
Read the full story at Packaging Strategies. Grass — or rather sun-dried hay, to be specific – is a major component of this eco-friendly paper
Starting simple with sustainability
Read the full story in IndustryWeek. These small steps have been a giant leap for companies’ bottom lines.
Predatory journals: no definition, no defence
Read the full story in Nature. Leading scholars and publishers from ten countries have agreed a definition of predatory publishing that can protect scholarship. It
Seeing himself in the science
Read the full story in the University of Washington Magazine. Ecologist Christopher Schell believes that tapping into who he is as a person makes his
