The products we use impact the environment at every stage: from manufacture to use to dealing with the 'waste' at the end of that usefulness. Manufacturing, in most cases, means extracting and harvesting raw materials followed by refining those resources so that they...

There are a lot of terms out there relating to technologies and techniques designed to help reduce the effects of climate change and environmental harm: green, ecofriendly, energy efficient, etc. They range from vague to specific. And there is the opportunity for some...