Circular Economy
H&M Boosts Organic Cotton Content
Clothing retailer H&M plans to increase its organic cotton use this year by 50 percent, starting with its latest spring line. Read More
CarbonFree Product Certification: Creating Brand Differentiation, Action on Global Warming
The CarbonFree label brings carbon neutrality, responsibility and action on global warming to the heart of a business, its products and customers. This can help increase sales, profits and the value of a brand. Read More
KFC Switches from Cardboard to Paper Packaging
KFC has switched from cardboard to paper wrapping in an attempt to reduce packaging by 1,400 tons. Read More
Design for Social Impact: How-To Guide
This guide lays out the principles of design for social impact and offers different modes of engagement that design firms can use to form projects that create positive social change in communities. Read More
A Green Action Plan for Existing Buildings
Businesses are usually focused on greening one, or just a few, buildings. But architects can help reduce the environmental impacts of clients' entire existing infrastructure. Here's how ... Read More
Cradle to Cradle Certification Now Available for Product Ingredients
MBDC, which administers Cradle to Cradle (C2C) certification for products, has developed a C2C certification for individual materials and ingredients in products. Read More
Design is an Avocado: The Layers of Green Design
In this excerpt from the new book Green Graphic Design, Brian Dougherty explains the three layers of design, and how designers can take the initiative to infuse each layer with greener materials, messages and efforts to change. Read More
Sainsbury's Aims to Turn All Food Waste into Biofuel
Sainsbury's, Britain's third-largest supermarket chain, kicks off a major biofuel initiative in Scotland and vows to stop sending all its U.K. food waste to landfill by summer. Read More
Green Truck Puts a Sustainable Spin on the Lunch Truck
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. Read More
PET Project: Coke's Big Recycling Plant
Coke stages a grand opening for the world's largest bottle-to-bottle recycling plant, a $60 million joint venture of Coke and the United Resource Recovery Corp., in South Carolina this week. Read More