Interactive Q&A: Need advice on making your lab green?

Interactive Q&A: Need advice on making your lab green? Post a question here. Need advice on making your lab green? Post a question here. Our panel of experts will answer your questions about creating an environmentally friendly lab By Bob Grant Related Articles Feature: Can Labs Go Green? Interactive Q&A: Need advice on making your lab green? Greenest of the Green Anatomy of a Green Lab Green lab slideshow List of resources Greening a

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By Bob Grant

Feature: Can Labs Go Green?

Interactive Q&A: Need advice on making your lab green?

Greenest of the Green

Anatomy of a Green Lab

Green lab slideshow

List of resources

Greening a laboratory can seem like a daunting task. But building an environmentally responsible lab or making an existing lab more sustainable can be affordable, efficient, and relatively simple, if you know where to look, and who to ask.

Now's your chance to get tips and advice from the leading experts in designing, building, and retrofitting laboratories to be more sustainable. These experts have kindly agreed to try to answer any question that you might have about making your lab greener. Simply post a question by clicking here, and one or more of the expert panel members will post a response in due course.

For instance, are you in the process of designing or redesigning a lab and ...

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  • From 2017 to 2022, Bob Grant was Editor in Chief of The Scientist, where he started in 2007 as a Staff Writer. Before joining the team, he worked as a reporter at Audubon and earned a master’s degree in science journalism from New York University. In his previous life, he pursued a career in science, getting a bachelor’s degree in wildlife biology from Montana State University and a master’s degree in marine biology from the College of Charleston in South Carolina. Bob edited Reading Frames and other sections of the magazine.

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