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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
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After saving money with a ridesharing app, SAP decides to make money by offering it to others.
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Working with the United Nations, Microsoft Research is undertaking the task of digitizing the way we understand the global carbon cycle to offer novel software tools for other researchers.
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Pollution prevention is one of the most solidly established green manufacturing practices in existence -- but has only been narrowly adopted to its full extent. Here's what you need to know to make P2 work for you.
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This week's video from energyNOW! explores potential solutions in two very different locations -- America’s heartland and Australia’s Great Barrier Reef.
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"Poo-Gloos," igloo-shaped domes that clean up wastewater, are able to strip pollution from sewage water as well as large, expensive treatment facilities.
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The biggest winner in the $10-million Automotive X PRIZE competition is not an electric car, but a car that weighs less than 1,000 pounds and is powered by an internal combustion engine.
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by Marc Gunther
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Hewlett Packard has become the latest company to release some of its intellectual property to the public good, with three green patents added to the Eco-Patent Commons today.
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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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The landmark memorandum of understanding identified a variety of projects that can help the dairy industry achieve those greenhouse gas reduction goals and increase its financial and environmental sustainability.
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The project to release environmentally friendly technologies into the public domain has now reached 100 patents in less than two years' time, with the addition today of four patents from Dow and Fuji Xerox, as well as an additional patent released by Xerox.
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The Hertz Corp. is tackling one of the most common complaints in the car rental industry with a biodegradable, non-toxic product that saps the stench from stinky rental cars without comprising air quality or aggravating allergies.
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Despite being a centerpiece of celebrations the world over, fireworks displays often release toxic chemicals into the environment; researchers are developing a new generation of fireworks that shine as bright but leave less of an impact.
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A new EPA ruling, and a nearly unrelated court ruling, highlight the challenges the country faces in trying to weed out the use of harmful chemicals in food, products, and manufacturing.
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The Canadian government has named eight substances as toxic to human health or the environment. Two of them are substances found commonly in shampoo, lipstick and other personal care products.
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Who hasn't guiltily sneaked off to the local taco truck for lunch? An LA-based company called Green Truck aims to reduce the guilt associated with on-the-go lunches by using organic ingredients, bio-compostable packaging, and vegetable oil to power its vehicles.
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The California Environmental Protection Agency has outlined six actions to integrate green chemistry into the state, reduce toxins in products and make chemical information accessible.
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Highlighting the risks from harmful materials in products, the toy maker has settled a lawsuit brought by 39 states after some of Mattel's toys were found to contain dangerous levels of lead.
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In its quarterly ranking of electronics manufacturers' commitments to the environment, Greenpeace found Nokia at the top of the heap yet again, while the NGO highlighted takeback policies and carbon-reduction commitments as the key to truly green electronics.
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Heating, ventilating and air conditioning wholesalers in California must collect mercury-containing thermostats under a new state law; President Bush recently signed a law banning the export of mercury from the United States.
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(Episode 59): The issue of what companies and manufacturers should do with toxic -- but still valuable -- electronic waste has made lots of headlines recently, and in this interview with GreenBiz Radio Barbara Kyle, the national coordinator of the Electronics Takeback Coalition, explains how companies can get out ahead of their looming e-waste problem.
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Just as railroads fundamentally changed the country and the world in the 19th century, five even more power technologies are already among us, making it all the more imperative that we examine them from their potential environmental impacts.
by Brad Allenby
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The San Francisco Board of Supervisors are asking for state legislation on extended producer responsibility, putting more companies in charge of handing or paying for product takeback and disposal.
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The three companies, along with new eco-patents released by Sony, more than double the total number of patents on environmental innovations that are available in the Eco-Patents Commons.
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Canadian aircraft and rail manufacturer Bombardier is launching a new family of fuel-efficient, single-aisle commercial airliners.