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 The Biomimicry Institute’s Educators’ Summit came to San Francisco last week, and it was a good chance to hear some important contributors to bio-inspired design and educators who are striving to teach this relatively new subject. Read More

Information on the energy use, solid waste and greenhouse gas emissions from the production of common plastics has been updated for the U.S. Life-Cycle Inventory Database. Read More

Will triple bottom line practices and measurements truly become commonplace in business? Perhaps there is another way of looking at this trend given the top-down commitments that CEO’s believe are necessary to create this massive shift in corporate behavior. The point of view is called triple top line. Read More

Recently two companies told me they did not see the business case for reporting carbon emissions to the Carbon Disclosure Project because the reporting standards are too "flexible." Read More

Often times we all overlook the easiest sustainability “R” of all and that is reduce. Packaging reduction opportunities are usually very simple to identify and almost always even easier to correct. Read More

Companies need to provide evidence of how their key sustainability impacts are addressed in operations. Without hard data being provided on a consistent basis, it's no wonder that there's an emerging business in validating green marketing claims. Read More

Interface president and CEO Dan Hendrix shares some of the important lessons his company has learned on its Mission Zero journey. Read More

Swiss cloud computing firm CloudSigma announced it has achieved its carbon neutral status through energy efficiency and carbon offsets. Read More

The site, which launched 10 years ago today, has come a long way since June 21, 2000, though for all of our success, we've only just begun to fulfill our promise. Read More

We've made stunning progress in the realm of carbon footprinting and accounting over the last 10 years and learned much as a collective industry and community. Here is a list of top 10 lessons that are applicable to sustainability executives today. Read More