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Clean Production Action evaluates the landscape of businesses and NGOs pushing for safer chemicals.
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Businesses have only started to explore energy strategies used in nature by creatures as varied as bacteria and electric eels.
by Chris Garvin
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Growing leather, foam and bricks; mimicking sharkskin and mussels. These are just a few new ways to reinvent the way we make things.
by Chris Garvin
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The Michigan native, who spearheaded the company’s breakthrough use of soy-based foam, has been obsessed with reuse from an early age.
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Capturing, storing and using carbon provide billions of business opportunities.
by Chris Garvin
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What a Tesla can teach us about the future of materials and sustainable design.
by Joel Makower
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Could animal fats and other natural ingredients help detox cleaning substances?
by Tom McKeag
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Here's how Dell, Patagonia, DHL and others have adapted to the circular economy.
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Cradle to Cradle design can answer anything from CO2 pollution to poor treatment of workers. One of its leaders looks ahead as she shifts course.
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Borrowing inspiration from the scaly exterior of a snake could help improve the function of a range of industrial products.
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From Coca-Cola to a range of upstarts, researchers seek better ways to meet demand for durable, versatile materials.
by Phil McKenna
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From gripping an object on an assembly line to navigation modeled off of animals' built-in sonar, nature offers an array of enviable features for robotics researchers.
by Tom McKeag
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You thought open source innovation was only for high-tech titans such as Tesla and Google? Think again.
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A new roundup of 100 top green innovations spotlights a shift away from premium-priced sustainability solutions toward products and projects with bigger potential.
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Surfboard materials are experiencing a wave of innovation with big implications for other industries. But could familiar concerns about performance, appearance and costs hinder sales?
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L'Oreal, Unilever, Philips and others are integrating sustainability into the full lifecycle of product and service design, use and disposal.
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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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Companies like TE Connectivity and Creation Technologies ask staff from product design and supply chain management to collaborate early in a new product's design cycle to avoid ecological problems.
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Walmart's Sustainability Leaders program can confuse customers into believing some very unsustainable products are environmentally friendly, says Seventh Generation's former CEO.
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As You Sow and the NRDC report that companies’ insufficient practices and lack of strong recycling policies are factors in low recycling rates in the United States.
by Robert Kropp
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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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Why the concept of 'endless resourcefulness' could be a game changer in product design.
by Joel Makower
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Plastic is everywhere — and its environmental footprint is getting larger. But bioplastics could hold the key to a cleaner future.
by Tom McKeag
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The pharmaceutical giant's czar of all things health, safety and sustainability talks overhauling supply chains.
by Anna Clark
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It’s time for the sixth annual Tommies, a salute to the best of bio-inspired designs of the year just passed.
by Tom McKeag