Daily Diigo Bookmarks: What has Jordan been reading on the web today? 07/17/2009

• The New Ambassadors of Science § SEEDMAGAZINE.COM

  Evan Lerner's even-headed week in review contemplates the intersection of science and faith: what (if anything) does it mean that the future head of the NIH, Francis Collins, is deeply religious?

  tags: seed, evan lerner, francis collins, NIH, BigLogos, Obama, unscientific america, science, faith, religion, policy, space-x, NASA

• At Wal-Mart, Labels to Reflect Green Intent - NYTimes.com

  Wal-mart is going after the holy grail (Edit 7/21/09: Wired's science cliche # 1! Sorry...) of green: a universal sustainability index. I'm pulling for them, truly. They've started by boiling all of sustainability down to these fiften questions (http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/07/16/business/WalmartSlide.pdf)

  tags: nytimes, walmart, sustainability, products, consumer information, green

  • “Nobody else could pull this off,” said Michelle Harvey at Environmental Defense Fund, one of the groups involved in the creation of the index.

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