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Playworld Systems has made a company-wide commitment to adopt Cradle to Cradle design, avoid harmful materials and eliminate waste.
by Tish Tablan
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The 30x30 Nature Challenge is deceptively easy with big payoffs: Encourage your employees to spend 30 minutes a day outside for 30 days.
by Nadine Gudz
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Productivity, labor costs and EHS should be measured and included in the valuation calculations for clean tech innovations.
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The head of the world's largest office furniture supplier talks about challenges in making non-toxic furniture, end of life options for the 'Think Chair,' and his vision for increasingly virtual, mobile work places.
by Heather King
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Can we take Jobs' legacy of fanatical dedication to continual improvement and apply it to business areas like supply chain, workers' rights, and business impacts globally, we will all be living in a better world.
by Kara Hurst
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Formal CSR programs measure performance against standards. But embedding sustainability into a culture also requires intangibles such as engagement and innovation. Difficult to quantify yet impossible to ignore, the human factor is finally getting its due.
by Anna Clark
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Want to engage your employees or customers on sustainability? Companies are finding that gaming -- and a little friendly competition -- can be an effective means of getting people to tune in to your sustainability initiative.
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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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GE and eBay have both earned big successes by harnessing the wisdom of the crowd for green innovation, while a leading European retailer found its crowd-sourcing efforts fail. Here's how to make the most of your social sustainability strategies.
by Eric Lowitt
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The partnership between the CEO of a $157 billion global industrial goods and financial services juggernaut and a much smaller online crowdsourcing firm highlights how innovation can be put to work at even the world's largest firms.
by Adam Aston
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When Nike first began incorporating sustainability into its business practices, the risks and opportunities we grappled with seemed distant indeed, even non-existent to most businesses. Fifteen years later, the risks and opportunities that businesses face from environmental and social challenges are more obvious than ever.
by Sarah Severn
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Seeing more athletic companies pick up the pace on sustainability is a welcome trend. One business at the front of the pack is Brooks, whose modest marketing approach has left its efforts less known than peers.
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As we view the whatever-it's-called decade in the rearview mirror, it's tempting to assess what's transpired since the good old days of Y2K to see how far we've come — and how far we haven't.
by Joel Makower
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What to make of the 20 most-read stories among the 2,350 (or so) articles and blog posts we ran during 2009? It's hard to make head or tails of them.
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When improving fuel economy, there is no one strategy that trumps all others. Ford has taken a four-part approach, focusing on design efficiency, aerodynamics, weight reduction and high-value fuel economy technology.<br />
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The founder of Interface shows how being a tree-hugging environmentalist and the head of a thriving, $1-billion a year carpet company don't need to be mutually exclusive
by Marc Gunther
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The co-directors of Walmart's Sustainability Consortium, one key plank of the company's larger Sustainability Index, explain how the group will work -- and what companies get for the six-figure price of admission.
by Joel Makower
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(Episode 55): The second half of this two-part podcast series with Jim Hartzfeld of InterfaceRAISE looks at how the company took a cue from nature to break new ground in carpet design.
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A Pacific Northwest green building group will add a nine-month certification course to the newly formed Cascadia Sustainability Academy. <br>
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The U.S. Green Building Council is compiling the top green building educational programs and is looking for classroom courses to support with grants.
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A new report from market researcher SBI finds that the booming green building market will continue its rapid expansion through 2011, more than doubling in size to $4.7 billion in the next four years.