Circular Economy
What's holding green products back?
Seventh Generation Founder Jeffrey Hollender and green chemistry pioneer John Warner weigh in on impatient investors, toxic ingredients and lagging innovation. Read More
Top 7 circular economy moments of 2015
It's been two steps forward and one back — or maybe the other way around — in progress toward a circular economy. Read More
Tapping into Nature: Materials that matter
Growing leather, foam and bricks; mimicking sharkskin and mussels. These are just a few new ways to reinvent the way we make things. Read More
How She Leads: Debbie Mielewski, Ford Motor
The Michigan native, who spearheaded the company’s breakthrough use of soy-based foam, has been obsessed with reuse from an early age. Read More
Tapping into Nature: Using bioinspiration to sink carbon
Capturing, storing and using carbon provide billions of business opportunities. Read More
Less can be more, but endless is most
What a Tesla can teach us about the future of materials and sustainable design. Read More
You say "recycling is garbage?" Trash that argument
The New York Times resurfaced a tired critique of recycling. Ball, Coca-Cola, P&G and Walmart aren't the only brands moving in another direction. Read More
Trash 2.0? Nike, Carnival cruises and wading through waste data
Waste management is getting a 21st-century makeover with data analysis for large corporations to use in pursuing waste reduction. Read More
Cleaning up cleaners with bio-surfactants
Could animal fats and other natural ingredients help detox cleaning substances? Read More
Defining the circular economy
Closed loop, cradle to cradle, next-gen recycling? No matter what you call it, companies are already jockeying for position in the trillion-dollar material reuse market. Read More
