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The furniture maker was given the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries' 2009 Design for Recycling award for its years of work on using more recyclable materials, eliminating certain materials and creating Cradle-to-Cradle products. Read More

Waste upcycler TerraCycle has entered a partnership with Frito-Lay to turn trash from Doritos, Fritos and other snacks into tote bags, pencil cases and, eventually, building materials. Their first goal: Collect 5 million snack bags. Read More

(Episode 85): Marc Gunther talks with Dominique Conseil, the president of cosmetics company Aveda, about the first-ever Cradle to Cradle certification for personal care products, how innovations in packaging can shift markets, and why he's found no tensions between the company's environmental and economic goals. Read More

Amie Vaccaro takes a look at the concept of social return on investment and how Wal-Mart is working to measure and manage its environmental and social impact. Read More

An Australian research organization is experimenting with taking waste feathers (11 billion pounds of which are produced each year) and turning them into usable fiber instead of feedstock or landfill trash. Read More

Golf courses in the Arab region use enough water to satisfy the needs of thousands of people. Yet their numbers are growing, illustrating the conflict between economic development and depleting natural resources, according to a new report. Read More

Green jobs aren't always easy for employment analysts to recognize, because they are scattered across most occupations and industries, and truly, every job can be more or less green. Here's how to recognize a green job when you see one. Read More

Chris D'Avignon's green job story shows how the threads of work history, business skills, and a growing personal commitment to doing things better led him to build a business that is creating more green jobs daily. Read More

Long-term sustainable growth is important to building a successful company. In the final installment of her four-part series "Growing a Green Corporation: Meeting the Next Great Disruptive Challenge of the 21st Century," Brandi McManus provides a blueprint for building a green team. Read More

Tesco is charging ahead with its plans to slap a carbon label on all of its private label products to denote the amount of greenhouse gas emissions it takes to produce each item. Next up: toilet paper and paper towels. Read More