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At last week's GoGreen 2012 conference in Seattle, up-and-coming entrepreneurs showcased how the young and hip are using business to drive sustainability while creating like-minded communities.
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The first prize from a challenged issued by the Environmental Defense Fund and InnoCentive proposes a simple solution to the problem of pollution from nitrogen-rich farm runoff. It's just one of many little challenges that could add up to big solutions.
by Marc Gunther
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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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TerraCycle has built a business around taking other companies' trash and turning it into treasure. It's a surprisingly tough sell sometimes, but here's how you make the case that it's not trash, it's wasted brand equity.
by Albe Zakes
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The company's latest green initiative encourages sellers to reuse shipping boxes made of recycled materials as a way of promoting greener shipping methods.
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The total private investment in companies that are building the clean economy has climbed over $400 billion since the end of 2009, and puts G-20 countries on track to invest $20 trillion in sustainability by 2020.
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With more than 600 eco-certifications on the market around the world today, companies must choose with great care what green labels are right for them and their customers. We talked to five companies to learn how they make their decisions.
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The EPA has awarded funds to 11 companies working on everything from green buildings to nanotech, with the goal of helping the firms bring their technologies to market.
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Although cleantech and cleantech funding have largely focused on renewable energy technologies, a set of awards handed out this month to startups focusing on water efficiency highlights even further how water is becoming the next carbon.
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The technology giant has implemented three best practices as part of a sustainability pilot project that are netting huge savings in materials and transportation costs as well as waste management.
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As the parade of progress marches inexorably forward, a growing number of innovations have a distinctly green tinge, significantly reducing material, chemical, water and energy inputs.
by Joel Makower
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The third annual State of Green Business report, released today by GreenBiz.com, tracks 20 facets of green business operations to measure whether firms are moving the needle toward lower-impact and more planet-friendly operations.
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I had expected the conference to be a showcase of how, when green goes mainstream, good intentions and high standards give way to the lowest common denominator of the mass market. Happily, I was wrong.
by Joel Makower
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The manufacturer of recycled-glass surfaces announced during Greenbuild 2009 that it had published an Environmental Product Declaration, allowing customers to verify the reduced impacts of its product line.
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Looking at the full impact of any type of product or device -- rather than, say, the cloud of exhaust in front of you on the highway -- opens the door to a whole new understanding of how design affects the environment.
by Dave Douglas
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The head of the Environmental Center for Pediatric Oncology at Hackensack University Medical Center talks about how she developed and promotes her line of green cleaning products, the lessons all ecopreneurs can take from her story, and how her success is a system, not a secret.
by Anna Clark
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The newly-launched HealthyStuff.org lists what chemicals like lead, mercury and PVC are found in more than 900 products, including children's school supplies, purses, car seats, automobiles and pet toys.
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How well can the three Rs -- reduce, reuse, recycle -- function in a country where spotless perfection -- from produce to cars to clothes -- is the benchmark of daily life?
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From food recalls to product lifecycle analysis to looming regulation, attendees of the Food Industry Sustainability Summit this week got a top-level look at the obstacles that environmental issues that the industry is facing.
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The Green Electronics council, the administrators of the three-year-old electronics certification program EPEAT, are expanding the certification to cover products in 40 countries around the world.
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At the Clean Tech Open today, Autodesk unveiled its Clean Tech Partner Program, designed to give up to 100 companies nearly $150,000 each in Autodesk design software, with the goal of spurring innovation and speeding the time-to-market for pathbreaking clean technologies.
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The GbD Innovators' Showcase highlighted cutting-edge ideas from startups, small businesses, and students.
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A competition sponsored by Steelcase, Net Impact, and GreenBiz.com asked students to submit socially and/or environmentally beneficial product or business ideas to win admission to this week's event. Here are the winning ideas.
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Rich Liroff, head of the Investor Environmental Health Network, explains how companies that are designing products with health and the environment in mind reap rewards in reputation, customer loyalty and boosts to the bottom line.
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The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has moved back most deadlines by which companies must test children's products for lead and phthalates, and has further explained how new lead rules will be enforced to quell retailers' fears.