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Sponsored: Over 200,000 products have been certified as more sustainable through Amazon’s Climate Pledge Friendly program and the company is seeking to partner with more brands.
by Adam Werbach
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Sponsored: Sendle CEO James Chin Moody shares how small businesses can improve sustainability efforts and minimize environmental impact.
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A groundswell of product repair efforts — including Patagonia's new 'Worn Wear' tour — are banking on macro-trends such as the maker movement to help sell the value of extended product lifespans.
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Cities, climate change, crowdsourcing and other factors are getting businesses and governments into green design. Here's what to expect.
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A new survey from Accenture reveals that many companies are struggling to satisfy consumer demand for sustainable goods and services, especially in emerging economies.
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Innovations -- even ones leading to the most sustainable products of their fields, like Cascades' new Moka recycled TP -- sometimes fail not because of any inherent fault of their own, but because they're launched at the wrong time.
by Marc Stoiber
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The nominees for this year's awards from TechCrunch notably include a number of sustainability-enabling tools and devices, but a number of promising innovations didn't make the cut. Here's our list of additions for the best of green tech in 2011.
by Jill Bunting
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BSR and the Danish Fashion Institute are kicking off a "Nice Consumer" initiative this month that will help define what the fashion industry could look like and how we can get there.
by Cody Sisco
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The coalition's creative collaboration model is tacking the biggest problems in corporate sustainability, and in the process developing a way to create truly sustainable consumer goods.
by Will Pekel
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After more than two decades of talking about sustainable consumption -- and in spite of advances in resource efficiencies and renewable energy -- we are not all that much closer to consuming sustainably.
by Kumar Venkat
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At last week's auto show, car makers from around the globe -- from Tokyo, Detroit, Bavaria and beyond -- brought high-end electric and hybrid vehicles to show off the fact that green is not just mainstream, it's top-of-the-line.
by Adam Happel
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The outdoor retailer used a full-page ad in the New York Times this last weekend to offer a few wise words about sustainable consumption.
by Marc Gunther
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It's a well established fact that big companies, especially those dominant in their categories, have a hard time innovating. Is there a way to overcome the status quo on behalf of sustainability?
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The head of sustainability at one of the world's most innovative companies kicked of the 2011 Innovation Forum with a look at how Nike tackles innovation, how its helping other companies get up to speed, and the challenges on the road ahead.
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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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From the 'Prius Effect' to Farmville, the way we interact with technology can be a force for positive environmental change, and -- if done well -- can help companies build loyalty and revenues.
by Adele Peters
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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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Clorox's green brands aren't giving it the profit boosts they used to.
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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
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From the resurgence of artisanship to new concepts in sharing goods, people are reexamining their relationships with the things they own.
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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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Sprint Nextel upped its green credentials before Congress Tuesday with testimony that it had developed a green design scorecard for new products and would vastly expand its wireless phone recycling program.
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Business has officially entered The Age of Sustainability, and businesses that don't figure in sustainability aren’t likely to survive. Here’s a look at the reasons why as well as pointers on how your company can adapt to the change.
by Mahesh Pethe
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In a lightning-paced presentation, serial innovator Saul Griffith laid out the human and global scope of the climate crisis, as well as where solutions will -- and won't -- come from.
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What happens when green business meets cleantech? When those companies are like Best Buy, Autodesk and Serious Materials, you get firms that align their products and services with efforts to foster sustainability -- and in some cases guide the marketplace toward broader and deeper adoption of environmentally responsible practices.