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An interview with Bonnie Nixon, the consortium's new executive director, on what the group is doing and where it's headed.
by Joel Makower
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The clothing giant is following Nike's lead in the wake of a Greenpeace campaign around the clothing industry's use of harmful chemicals.
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The next phase of the aniticpated Eco Index Apparel Tool begins next month with pilot testing, laying the groundwork for apparel and designers to make more sustainable sourcing choices.
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The auto industry is in upheaval now trying to radically reinvent our products to meet tough new fuel efficiency standards. But some of the lessons the industry has learned can be applied to any company thinking about sustainability.
by John Viera
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The public at large probably doesn't think of the chemical giant as a major green player, but the company has made a big push toward green in four main areas, driven in part by customer and market demands.
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TerraCycle has built a business around taking other companies' trash and turning it into treasure. It's a surprisingly tough sell sometimes, but here's how you make the case that it's not trash, it's wasted brand equity.
by Albe Zakes
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The textiles and apparel industry, once considered far behind the building and consumer electronics sectors in sustainability, has taken the lead on the environmental front.
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The fact that consumers ranked Seventh Gen and Whole Foods alongside Trader Joe's and Disney on sustainability -- while shunning Walmart -- underscores the idea that they don't have a clue about green brands.
by Marc Gunther
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The wireless carrier has set a series of ambitious goals regarding its own end-of-life electronics, as well as those it sells to individuals, and is taking a lifecycle approach to the e-waste challenge that could shift the entire industry.
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Method offers an inside look at its packaging design philosophy and how it functions as a core component of the company's organizational thinking.
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Clorox's green brands aren't giving it the profit boosts they used to.
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Sprint is upping the bar on green phones, and lowering their costs, with the latest phone in its environmental line.
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Al Iannuzzi, Johnson & Johnson's senior director of Worldwide Health & Safety, provides an insider's look at the company's efforts in eco-leadership.
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by Anna Clark
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Method, a leading innovator in cleaning products, lays out the backstory of its success and sheds light on why it's important to make soap more sustainable.
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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 double the country's production of high-grade recycled plastic, material suitable for beverage and food packaging.
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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.
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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.
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When Patagonia developed a boot for Backpacker magazine's Zero Impact Challenge, a call for boots with the lowest environmental impacts, it found that opinions vary widely on what materials are better choices.
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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.
by Marc Gunther
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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.
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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 their efficacy as well as their ingredients -- so consumers understand what they'e buying, what it's made of and how it works.
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Lorrie Vogel, the head of Nike Considered, talked about the company's closed-loop ethos, why sustainability has to start from within, and how the company turned 13 million plastic bottles into World Cup jerseys.
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From green buildings to green laptops, Autodesk is putting its design software to work on a number of green arenas, and helping to address the root causes of <i>un</i>sustainability, rather than just the symptoms.
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The Eco Index, launched last summer by a coalition of companies in the apparel industry, is shaping up to be a useful tool for companies across the spectrum, from wool socks to haute couture.
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In the first of our series on the biggest trends in green business practices in 2010, we look at the ways the world's biggest consumer brands -- P&G, Unilever, Kraft and others -- have stepped off the sidelines and into the green arena.
by Joel Makower