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The Danish Fashion Institute and BSR are trying to cultivate a taste for green among fashionistas, bargainistas and the industry that serves them.
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What do Northern California's Bay Bridge, a huge soccer stadium being built in Brazil and some of the most popular films and video games produced by Lucasfilm have in common? Technology that Autodesk believes can help change the world for the better.<br />
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The design software giant introduces a slew of new product suites and services for building and infrastructure designers, product manufacturers and creators of digital entertainment.
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Grads students from UC Berkeley teamed with counterparts in Mexico to design an affordable, energy efficient household refrigerator that also helps curb wasteful habits when using the appliance.<br />
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With all the talk about cloud computing and its impact on business, innovation and sustainability, it's important to understand what the cloud is -- and what it isn't. James Staten of Forrester busts the most common myths about the cloud.
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The design software giant introduces a suite of tools that marry cloud computing and on-premise solutions to provide insight into products and building projects from their inception to end of life.
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Autodesk is on a mission to dispel any doubts about the power and possibilities that cloud computing brings to sustainable design. The technology and its impacts on design are Topic A at company's user conference in Las Vegas.
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Many companies find the need to innovate challenging and the prospect of embedding sustainability into innovation even more so. But it doesn't have to be that way as Marks & Spencer, Carlsberg and Genecor showed at the BSR Conference.
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The most important thing to remember about sustainability is that it's not a thing, but an experience, says IDEO's Beto Lopez, who told an IF11 audience how to avoid the pitfalls that can undermine sustainability initiatives.
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The move is expected to be particularly useful to builders of greener structures and creators of more eco-friendly products.
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Method is trying to deliver an anti-pollution message with a new recycled bottle that contains plastic trash from the sea, but can the new "ocean bottle" also deliver a profit?<br />
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Method, the company that used green chemistry to turn age-old concepts for making and marketing soap on their head, has come up with another innovation that explodes a long-held idea -- that the trash trapped in the North Pacific Gyre is unredeemable.
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Four major firms that are heavily invested in EVs take a frank look at the industry.
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A plan to kill feral camels in Australia to reduce green house gas emissions and worries about plasticizer-tainted food in Taiwan are among the recent news stories that prompted us to do double takes.
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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 Easter Egg Roll.<br />
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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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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.
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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 into their operations and products in a candid, edgy and at times rollickingly funny conversation with GreenBiz Senior Writer Marc Gunther.
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A team of students from Stanford and Aalto University in FInland has an answer to the problem of e-waste: They've designed a fully recyclable laptop that can be taken apart by hand in less than two minutes without using any tools.
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Lighting materials firm Intematix takes the wraps off a product called the ChromaLit, which its makers say improves upon the benefits of conventional LEDs by providing higher quality, better-looking, energy efficient light while eliminating key disadvantages.
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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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GE wants to be a leader in providing the products that will help power the future. Its debut of a sleek EV charging station, a home energy management device and a $200 million innovation challenge are the latest vehicles in the company's campaign for smart grid development.
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In a move affecting more than $1 billion in goods each year, Kaiser Permanente is now requiring its suppliers to provide environmental data on all medical equipment and products purchased by the largest managed care organization in the U.S.
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A Miami design firm and an Oakland metal fabricator have produced a recycling bin that blends good looks with utility and is sleek enough to be at home in the C-suite and other high-end offices, posh hotels and resorts.
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Why should companies worry about carbon management given the lack of a definitive outcome from climate talks in Copenhagen? Panelists from UPS and Motorola shared their firms’ motivations at the State of Green Business Forum in Chicago.