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Green Your Lab @greenyourlab.bsky.social · Apr 17

🌟To Celebrate Earth Week, Green Your Lab is please to announce the first cohort of our Sustainable Lab Accelerator !!🌟

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🌟 **Announcing the First Cohort of the Green Your Lab Accelerator!**

🌟 Announcing the First Cohort of the Green Your Lab Accelerator! 🌟 Are you struggling to kickstart your Sustainable Lab Program? Feeling isolated and in need of expert guidance? Join us and discove...

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Green Your Lab @greenyourlab.bsky.social · Jul 24

We're currently at the Love Tomorrow at Tomorrowland listening to ecologist Nadina Galle talk about how her childhood in Canada inspired her love of the environment.

Challenge: Where can you consider putting in a "pocket park" or a small "facade garden"?

Green Your Lab @greenyourlab.bsky.social · Jul 19

Anyone else extremely concerned that the US Environmental Protection Agency is eliminating its scientific research office — firing all the scientists doing the research behind the rules safeguarding health and ecosystems from pollutants??

@pbsnews.org: www.pbs.org/newshour/pol....

EPA plans to cut scientific research, more than 1,000 employees could be fired

As many as 1,155 chemists, biologists, toxicologists and other scientists — 75% of the research program's staff — could be laid off, according to documents reviewed by Democratic staff on the House Co...

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Green Your Lab @greenyourlab.bsky.social · May 16

Happy World Climate Day!
Thank you for doing your part for a better tomorrow. 🌍

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Greenlab Zürich @greenlabzh.bsky.social · May 13

For #SustainabilityTipTuesday we want to echo this message about donation and repair, with a shout-out our friends at EquipSent (equipsent.org) who connect labs and enable donation of functional equipment 🤗♻️ #sustainablelabs

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Green Your Lab @greenyourlab.bsky.social · May 7

#GreenLab Pro-Tip:
Don’t throw away your old or broken lab equipment. Donate it to schools or other research groups who need it. #sustainablescience #donate 💡

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Green Your Lab @greenyourlab.bsky.social · Apr 17

🌟To Celebrate Earth Week, Green Your Lab is please to announce the first cohort of our Sustainable Lab Accelerator !!🌟

network.greenyourlab.org/t/announcing...

🌟 **Announcing the First Cohort of the Green Your Lab Accelerator!**

network.greenyourlab.org

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Greenlab Zürich @greenlabzh.bsky.social · May 6

This week's #SustainableTipTuesday is about computation - did you know there is a version of AlphaFold that uses 95% less energy than the regular version? Take a look below💡 #greenlabs

Ezgi Karaca @ezgikaraca.bsky.social · Feb 22

Inspired by Wallner's AFsample approach, @busrasavas.bsky.social's MinnieFold produced good quality antibody-antigen models even with 95% reduced sampling over CAPRI55 targets.

Just accepted in Proteins!

Paper: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Github: github.com/CSB-KaracaLa...

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Greenlab Zürich @greenlabzh.bsky.social · Apr 29

For #SustainabilityTipTuesday this week, we encourage you to review your chemical use, keeping in mind principles of #greenchemistry to find more sustainable 'solutions' 😉🧪

Irish Green Labs @irishgreenlabs.bsky.social · Dec 5

When labs incur shortages or financial difficulties they become more open to greening.

This article addressing a 2010 acetonitrile shortage can be used as a roadmap for improving your green chemistry profile.

#greenlabs #getgreener

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Cost-Effective Solutions to the World-Wide Acetonitrile Shortage - Pharmaceutical Processing World

The Acetonitrile Problem With no end in sight to the worldwide shortage of acetonitrile, the popular high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) solvent, laboratories are in search of cost-effective...

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Green Your Lab @greenyourlab.bsky.social · Apr 17

🌟To Celebrate Earth Week, Green Your Lab is please to announce the first cohort of our Sustainable Lab Accelerator !!🌟

network.greenyourlab.org/t/announcing...

🌟 **Announcing the First Cohort of the Green Your Lab Accelerator!**

network.greenyourlab.org

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Green Your Lab @greenyourlab.bsky.social · Apr 12

Join us!

Green Your Lab @greenyourlab.bsky.social · Apr 7

#GreenLab Pro-Tip:
How to reduce your plastic waste in the lab: buy liquid media in bulk and recycle your PET cell culture bottles. #GreenLabs #SustainableScience 🌎♻️

Green Your Lab @greenyourlab.bsky.social · Mar 29

#GreenLab Pro-Tip:
Did you know that you can recycle your pipette tips, plastics and gloves in the lab? Check out awesome solutions from LabCycle and Terracycle
#GreenLabs #SustainableScience 😎🌿

Green Your Lab @greenyourlab.bsky.social · Mar 26

#GreenLab Pro-Tip:
Don’t be a drip, refill your tips. Reuse your pipette tip boxes and fill them with bulk tips. #sustainablescience #pipettetips

Green Your Lab @greenyourlab.bsky.social · Mar 12

#GreenLab Pro-Tip:
Plastic doesn't mean single use! You can save money and resources washing, (even sometimes autoclaving), and reusing your plasticware. ♻️ #reuse

Green Your Lab @greenyourlab.bsky.social · Mar 6

#GreenLab Pro-Tip:
Sometimes, plastic is unavoidable in the lab. But you can still minimize its impact by choosing the smallest option available. Smaller pipets, tubes, and containers mean less waste. 🗑️ #sustainableresearch

Green Your Lab @greenyourlab.bsky.social · Feb 27

#GreenLab Pro-Tip:
Spreading E. coli on agar plates is a common technique, but it doesn’t have to involve plastic. Use glass or metal spreaders instead - they are easy to sterilize and reuse. 🔥 #spreadthelove

Green Your Lab @greenyourlab.bsky.social · Feb 22

#GreenLab Pro-Tip:
Petri dishes are great for growing cultures, but they are also a source of plastic waste. Try using glass ones instead - they are reusable, sterilizable, and better for the environment. 🌱#GreenChemistry

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Greenlab Zürich @greenlabzh.bsky.social · Feb 19

We're running a monthly lab sustainability challenge for labs at @ethzurich.bsky.social and UZH - join in to complete 10-minute challenges to make your lab more sustainable! uzh.us3.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=...

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Irish Green Labs @irishgreenlabs.bsky.social · Feb 22

Interesting article highlighting strategies to reduce your labs carbon footprint.

The strategies outlined require collaborative action at all levels, and are projected to reduce the carbon footprint of three labs by 50%.

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#greenchem #greenlabs #sustainability

Carbon footprint and mitigation strategies of three chemistry laboratories - Green Chemistry (RSC Publishing) DOI:10.1039/D3GC03668E

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Green Your Lab @greenyourlab.bsky.social · Jan 30

@greenlabzh.bsky.social Thanks for the suggestion to Join BlueSky!

Green Your Lab @greenyourlab.bsky.social · Jan 30

Science Has a Sustainability Problem: How Can We Make Labs Greener?

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Science Has a Sustainability Problem: How Can We Make Labs Greener?

Science has a sustainability problem- a lab uses up to 10x more energy and academic labs generated 12 billion pounds of plastic waste last year.

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