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In the ideal world, all design would be "green design" -- that is, designers would consider the environmental impacts of their designs over their entire life-cycle: materials selection, sourcing, manufacturing, marketing, use, and end-of-life disposition -- ideally, by recycling it full-circle into another product of comparable value. In some cases, a designer might even rethink the entire system of commerce in which the product exists. In this section we look at the expanding toolbox available to help all design eventually become green design.
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The war over wood product certification labels may be raging among forestry and green building advocates but the White House is trying to steer clear of the controversy in staging its annual......
Al Iannuzzi, Johnson & Johnson's senior director of Worldwide Health & Safety, provides an insider's look at the company's efforts in eco-leadership. ...
The drive to clean up healthcare's impacts gets a push from a group that wants to recycle more plastic at hospitals....
The USDA named the first 60 products that can carry a new label showing their bio-based content....
Using a new product scorecard, IKEA hopes to make its stock greener so that by 2015 the retail chain can classify 90 percent of the goods it sells as being "more sustainable."...
A toxic byproduct of the coal industry can be used to make metal foam that's light and strong....
Coca-Cola Enterprises Ltd., the world's third-largest independent Coke bottler, and the largest plastics recycler in Europe are teaming up to build a U.K. facility that's expected to more than......
The pending ban of traditional lightbulbs, which spurred the lighting industry to introduce more energy efficiency products, has led to the redesign of a classic toy -- the Easy-Bake Oven....
Navigating the rapidly changing landscape of greener products can be a daunting task. Until all available product choices are good ones, there is a need for consumers to have tools available to...
The Coca-Cola Company today announced a partnership that will license the beverage giant's plant-based packaging to Heinz for use in its ketchup packaging....
Eben Bayer, the co-founder and CEO of Ecovative Design, extols the natural processes and properties of grass and cows as a way of thinking about the design of environmentally responsible products......
Despite the well-trod cliché that a journey to sustainability is a marathon and not a sprint, Nike, with its Considered design ethos, shows all the signs of being in it for the long haul.......
In a ranking of 596 cell phones' environmental impacts -- and the social impacts of their manufacturers -- several firms stand out, while BlackBerrys take all of the last place scores....
At the State of Green Business Forum in Washington, D.C., Timberland CEO Jeff Swartz talked about how his company strives to embed corporate social responsibility, sustainability and authenticity......
A steady parade of innovators in large and small companies have tried to create more environmentally benign alternatives to plastic; after decades of slow progress, bioplastics are sprouting like......
The first of designer Jim Kor's urban electric vehicles will be completed this spring, one step closer to bringing a solar-powered and easy-to-maintain vehicle to markets worldwide....
The laptop earned the Sustainable Product Certification from Underwriters Labs for its energy efficiency, reduction in toxic chemicals, and use of recycled materials in its design....
Staples Advantage, the business-to-business division of Staples Inc., now includes more than a dozen eco-friendly kitchen, breakroom and janitorial products in its Sustainable Earth line....
As the movement toward eco-friendly technologies continues, it's critical for products that are marketed as green or non-toxic cleaners to be held to higher standards of transparency regarding......
The notion of factories without Dumpsters isn't new, but in recent years a number of companies across industries have put "zero waste" squarely in their sights....
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