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From Interface to Starbucks to Patagonia, companies are starting to make products and packaging with end-of-life top-of-mind.
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Insights into how Arm, a heavy hitter in mobile chips and artificial intelligence, aligns tech design with social responsibility.
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For the fastest woman-owned company in the US, designing a versatile green product meant being flexible.
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A 30-year veteran of sustainability covers the ground on what it takes to be a leader.
by Joel Makower
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Two corporate innovators share an ambition to solve plastic waste and other vexing problems.
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Speaking with Waste Management recently, the influential designer, entrepreneur and author says it's time for businesses to transition from limits to growth.
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A whirlwind two weeks in the high-profile, trans-Atlantic life of the designer, architect, author and entrepreneur.
by Joel Makower
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How can you tell if the electronics you or your company are buying are truly greener than others?
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The father of the automobile saw innovation as a problem in need of an integrated solution. Why can't green businesses do the same?
by David Meyers
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Stanford University will chronicle the sustainability movement through the eyes of William McDonough via writings, conversations and tweets.
by Kira Gould
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Hannah Jones, vice president of sustainable business and innovation at Nike, talks about how to tap mega trends like population growth, scarcer natural resources and climate change to create massive opportunities for new business models.
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Janine Benyus has shown time and again in her work on biomimicry that life creates conditions conducive to life. Here's how the business world could do that.
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McDonald's and Starbucks stand out at leading examples of what fast food companies should do to lower the impacts of their packaging.
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The head of the computer-assisted design firm talks about the ongoing revolution in how software can enable sustainable innovations in everything from electric cars to the San Francisco Bay Bridge.
by Marc Gunther
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Nike's head of sustainability and innovation offers advice to entrepreneurs and other sustainability professionals, and tells how her company is creating radical innovation.
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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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The first-ever chief sustainability officer at the beverage giant discusses what it's like to be the first to hold the CSO role at Coke, why the company is excited about the PlantBottle, and the importance of listening to feedback from customers.
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The 'Five Forces Model of Competition' illustrates the ways that companies can use sustainability initiatives in partnership with, and in opposition to, their industry rivals to further the cause of greening operations.
by Eric Lowitt
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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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What CEO expects to stand before her or his Maker someday and talk about shareholder value?
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by Ray Anderson
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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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On Thursday the consumer goods manufacturer announced the members who sit on its U.S. Sustainability Expert Advisory Panel, which helps the company evaluate future consumer-facing initiatives and offer advice on sustainability-oriented issues.
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In this in-depth interview, Interface founder and CEO Ray Anderson explains what it takes to be a 'radical industrialist,' and how the very first green project his company undertook both paid for and paved the way for every project since.
by Marc Gunther
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In the latest challenge posed by the editors of Backpacker Magazine to equipment manufacturers, five companies are bringing all their innovations to bear to make hiking boots that tread gently on the planet.