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Entertainment Firms Need to Step Up Performance in CSR Reporting, Study Says
Report from the Roberts Environmental Center awards no points for environmental performance to any of 14 entertainment companies surveyed. Read More
Dell Unveils Energy Savings Calculator
This tool allows a customer to view power consumption for individual components, such as monitors or graphics cards, compare the current savings to older configurations, and establish aggregate savings for an entire year. Read More
The Power of Positive Feedback Loops
Understanding the interplay between positive and negative feedback loops is crucial to our ability to create a social and economic New Normal as we confront the New Normal in nature. Read More
Four Steps to Becoming a Sustainable 21st Century Organization
Companies want to ensure the greatest environmental and economic return on each dollar (and hour) spent on sustainability. So which individuals or groups can you influence to support your sustainability efforts? Which individuals or groups pose the greatest business risk with respect to your environmental performance? Where do you start? And what do you do? Read More
My search for the Woodstock baby
The Woodstock Music and Art Fair of August 1969 gave birth to lots of things, but no babies. Read More
Cosentino's ECO Countertops Earn Cradle to Cradle Certification
ECO by Cosentino, a line of countertops and surfaces made from 75 percent recycled material, has received Cradle to Cradle Silver certification from McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry. Read More
Counting Carbon at Madison Square Garden
Deutsche Bank and MIT unveiled the world's first scientifically valid, real-time display of greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere. Read More
AAC: A Concrete Reason Why You Can't Have a Bullet-Proof Home in California
We all know how important it is to live in a green -- not to mention bullet-proof -- structure, so one would think that a progressive state like California would allow for the use of autoclaved aerated concrete. Not so. The situation is illustrative of the issues that accompany incorporating new materials into traditional building codes. Read More
Footprint. Handprint. Blueprint: How Business Can Tackle Climate Change
To tackle a problem like climate change, we will need new partnerships among business, government and civil society -- a "Triangle of Sustainability" -- to achieve the scale and the speed that climate change requires. Read More
Beyond Metaphor: Biomimicry and the Case of the Gecko
Designers of tomorrow's buildings have to go beyond metaphors in order to apply truly useful biomimetic innovation to the problems of our built world. For years researchers have been studying how geckos adhere to walls, and how humans can harness that ability. Read More