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This week's sustainable news roundup looks at a range of green IT news, the latest from sustainable food and farming, and much more.
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A new ranking, developed by AT&T in partnership with BSR and industry stakeholders, aims to give shoppers easy access to more environmental and social aspects of mobile phones.
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The City and County By the Bay is just the third municipality to earn the e-Stewards Enterprise certification, committing to recycle all its electronic waste domestically and without the use of prison labor.
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The three-year-old company that offers instant incentives for cell phone buyers to trade in their old devices has just landed a $35 million investment from Kleiner Perkins, and is working to expand its partnerships with Sprint and Verizon.
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In looking for a cradle-to-cradle solution to waste, the head of the sportswear line says that Puma is exploring how to make shoes, t-shirts and bags that are either compostable or recyclable.
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The group's Sustainable Packaging Coalition is launching a pilot project -- with big-name retail backers -- to develop and test a standardized recycling label for all types of packaging that will make it easier to increase recycling rates.
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Following an investment of an undisclosed amount, Recyclebank will take over Waste Management's Greenopolis recycling-rewards program, and further expand its reach into 20 million households across the country.
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Apple's new CEO unveiled the latest iteration of the iPhone this morning, and while it will get gadget-lovers' hearts beating faster, it also brings the challenge of what to do with millions of soon-to-be-outdated phones.
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Innovation in how data centers are powered and cooled, Facebook's 4x-more-efficient chips, and e-Stewards e-waste certification updates are among the green IT news that has crossed our desk recently.
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Electronic waste has popped up in legislative bodies large and small in recent weeks, with different takes on how to reduce the impacts of our millions of discarded gadgets.
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The wireless carrier has set a series of ambitious goals regarding its own end-of-life electronics, as well as those it sells to individuals, and is taking a lifecycle approach to the e-waste challenge that could shift the entire industry.
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Although awareness of and action on responsible electronics recycling are quickly accelerating, there's still no serious solution in sight for dealing with mountains of toxic trash.
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The project to collect booms from the Gulf of Mexico and recycle them into parts for the Chevy Volt has far exceeded its original goals, with more then 212,000 pounds of waste diverted from landfill.
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In the first audit of its years-long shift to electronic health records, Kaiser Permanente found that the project has eliminated 1,000 tons of paper waste, 68 tons of x-ray film (and the chemicals to process it) and saves patients millions of gallons of gasoline.
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Two different groups have recently developed new ways to make fuels -- biodiesel and natural gas -- from waste materials in the beer-brewing process and from water-treatment algaes.
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In a ranking of 596 cell phones' environmental impacts -- and the social impacts of their manufacturers -- several firms stand out, while BlackBerrys take all of the last place scores.
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With the iPhone now available on Verizon, eBay hopes to help stem the e-waste tide of unwanted AT&T-based iPhones by upping the amount of money it offers for smartphone sales through its new 'Instant Sale' service.
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Lorrie Vogel, the head of Nike Considered, talked about the company's closed-loop ethos, why sustainability has to start from within, and how the company turned 13 million plastic bottles into World Cup jerseys.
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A marketing war that has raged for several years between the makers of wood pallets and plastic pallets hit a new crescendo last month, when an outgoing U.S. Senator stepped in on behalf of the wood side.
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Sheila Davis, the Executive Director of the Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition, talks about the evolution of environmental stewardship in the global hub of technology, and how cleantech companies are leading where IT firms lagged.
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In a survey of 18 electronics manufacturers by the environmental group, Asus made the highest-scoring gadget of all, although HP, Acer, Samsung, Sharp and Sony Ericsson also led in their respective categories.
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On the eve of the opening of the massive CES trade show, the industry association has published its second sustainability report, highlighting successes industry leaders have made across electronics' lifecycle.
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Nearly 18 months after opening up the certification to the entire world, the Green Electronics Council has appointed six organizations as certified qualifying bodies, allowing for even further expansion of the EPEAT system.
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An exposé from the Sacramento Bee explores the complexities for companies and individuals that want to recycle their electronics responsibly, and in the process finds that even certified green recycler ERI exports hazardous waste abroad.
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The biggest shopping day of the year is right around the corner, and two new reports take a look at just what this annual electronics-buying frenzy will mean for the environment and human health.