Nanotechnology and the Environment

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Many Nano Cafés attendees asked questions about the use and the consequences of nanotechnology on the environment.
Hence, we decided to hold the next Nano Café on this topic. See Upcoming Events

First, here are some resources that members of the Citizens' Coalition on Nanotechnology selected, in cooperation with faculty in the UW—Madison Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center:

Overview - Risks - Benefits - Regulatory issues

Overview

Reports

Biotechnology, Information technology and Cognitive sciences : environmental opportunities and risks of converging technologies - SKEP ERA-net : Scientific Knowledge for Environmental Protection, February 2008
- Summary of perceptions and science needs: results of SKEP WP6 questionnaire - Solange Martin
- A philosophical perspective on the NBIC Convergence - Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent
- Converging Technologies - NBIC, Environmental opportunities and risks - Mira Marcus-Kalish
- NBIC convergence and the environment-Potential benefits, emerging risks and major stakes - Julien Vert

FoEA Nano News - Friends of the Earth, Australia, June 2007

FoEA June Nano Newsletter raises the question of whether or not nanotechnology will deliver on the environmental gains that its proponents are promising – or whether many environmental applications of nanotechnology are simply introducing whole new levels of ecological risk.
In this issue, FoEA take a look at some of the claims, counter claims and controversy that are surrounding environmental applications of nanotechnology, especially those aimed at addressing dangerous climate change.