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Good news and bad, serious innovations and 'news of the weird,' these are the stories that caught the most attention in the past year.
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Frito-Lay North America, which has pursued greener manufacturing, transportation and packaging, is launching a major push to reformulate half its products in 2011 so that the snacks are made only with natural ingredients.
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With the recent addition of recycled porcelain, ceramic tile maker Fireclay Tile has developed products with more than 70 percent recycled content.
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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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Every aspect of the new Chevy Volt, from its conception to its execution, exemplifies disruptive innovation. Here's how the old-school automaker overcame internal and external challenges to create a truly game-changing technology.
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Using paint sludge to make engine-shipping containers and turning cardboard into car roof interiors are just a couple of the ways General Motors recycles or reuses the majority of the waste its plants churn out.
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Nike's sustainability-focused design tool and patent-sharing program show how companies can use technology and collaboration to combat climate change.
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Nike has released a public version of a design tool it created to help its designers make better-informed decisions in the earliest stage
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Now that Patagonia is close to offering recycling for all of its clothing, it's taking a new approach to bringing sustainability to apparel: Asking customers to wear less and repair more.
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Jeff Wacker, one of Hewlett-Packard's resident futurists, explains how the next-generation accelerometers he's working on can be deployed to do everything from conserving energy to tracking food-borne illnesses.
by Marc Gunther
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From GE's Ecomagination Challenge to the ongoing series of X-Prize competitions, engaging the best and brightest in solving environmental problems reaps rewards far larger than the prizes handed out.
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Preserve collected 50 tons of waste polypropylene plastic this year though its Gimme 5 recycling program for plastic that it turns into new bath and home products.
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Herman Miller Inc. and its Nemschoff, Brandrud and Herman Miller Healthcare subsidiaries are introducing their latest green designs in hospital furnishings for patient, visitor and exam rooms.
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A new campaign from the automaker aims to enable sustainable innovation by repurposing the technology tools that Toyota has built into its vehicles.
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Due to new production technologies that reduce energy demand, the production of NatureWorks' bio-based Ingeo polymers emit fewer greenhouse gas emissions than common plastics.
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Colgate touts its single-use, non-recyclable Wisp mini-toothbrushes just a few webpages away from from talking about its respect for the planet.
by Marc Gunther
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Modular carpet maker Interface will complete Environmental Product Declarations — detailed documents explaining the life cycle impacts of items — for all of its products by 2012 and challenged other companies to set goals similar to its Mission Zero program.
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At the biannual packaging industry mega-show, the green flags that were waving far and wide in 2008 were almost completely absent, but some promising signs and innovative solutions were on display on the show floor.
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In this roundup of design new, a U.K. retailer starts using chocolate trays that dissolve in water, the first-ever program for recycling car windshields launches, and more.
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By making simple changes to the jeans finishing process, Levi's has been able to dramatically reduce the water needed to produce each pair of jeans.
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The environmental group has released the latest version of its influential Guide to Greener Electronics, with Nokia in the top spot and Nintento stuck in dead last.
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The graphic design industry has launched a project to develop measurements to help designers and their clients understand the environmental and social impacts of their work before projects are completed.
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Small companies have the nimbleness to achieve radical innovations, but they lack scale. On the other end of the spectrum are large companies that have the scale, but they face the uncertainty of trying to do something that is working in a radically different way.
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What can some of the most highly educated, sustainability-focused business leaders learn from 20 dry spaghetti noodles, a yard of string, a yard of tape and a marshmallow?
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Collaboration is needed now more than ever to solve problems big and small, said GreenOrder founder and president Andrew Shapiro during the "Collaborating for a Change" panel at today's GreenBiz Innovation Forum.
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