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Rocking the Cradle to Cradle Revolution in Davos | Fast Company
2011-09-27 20:39:00 Via Scoop.it – Green InnovationConsider that 90% of consumer products end up in waste disposal within six months. U.S. adoption of recycling has reached only 28%. And the UK Government estimates that the EU generates 2 billion tonnes of waste products every year. That’s almost literally throwing money away, not to mention a serious potential ...
By: News for Greens
Aveda, Cradle to Cradle, and a Paradigm Shift in Cosmetics
2009-06-05 16:29:00 [From GreenerComputing.com] 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. Continue reading Aveda, Cradle to Cradle, and a Paradigm Shift in Cosmetics ...
By: News for Greens
From Cradle To Cradle: Ecovative Design's Acorn? Packaging
2009-04-17 03:12:00 What happens to all the packaging inside of all the computer and printer and cell phone boxes? The preformed foam plastic, the peanuts, the bubble packaging, the sponge sheets... Waste in landfills, toxic waste.
What is the Cradle to Cradle Philosophy?
2007-12-06 07:02:00 I heard William A. McDonough mention this on Larry King. I didnt quiet understand what the Cradle to Cradle Philosophy and google is limited. Anyone?
By: nobosh Answers
The Efficient Materials Trap
2007-10-29 16:55:00 Efficient materials can sometimes seem to be the ideal path for green building. If we can find a way to more efficiently produce the materials we need to build our buildings, it would seem that we...
By: Green Options
Eco- Effective Decisions: PBS Programing -- e2
2007-10-27 16:11:00 "Was it a conscious decision or a momentary lapse of reason? How did progress take priority over humankind? Could harnessing the world’s energy that allowed our ascent now be the ledge...
By: Green Options
Weekend Review: The Future of Nature
2007-10-06 16:40:00 When I talk to people about thinking sustainably, they inevitably ask for books to read, and although there are several books I love about sustainability, they’re all very specific to one area...
By: Green Options
Eco Effective Events: Chicago to Host Largest GreenBuild Expo
2007-09-19 21:27:00 This November 7-9, Chicago will host the largest GreenBuild Expo in history. Put on by the USGBC (United States Green Building Council), this year over 18,000 attendees will gather to learn about...
By: Green Options
Eco-Effective Mail: USPS Turns to MBDC to Create Cradle-to-Cradle Packages
2007-09-07 19:19:00 This summer the US Postal Service announced a new "Cradle to Cradle" certified shipping model and package for their postal service. This is the first US mailing service to receive such a...
By: Green Options
Steve Wozniak Going Green
2007-09-05 17:20:00 While it may have gotten more notice in the news recently that Steve Wozniak was recently ticketed for driving his Prius at 104 mph (that’s 166 kph), but he has also been thinking about an...
By: Green Options
Eco-Effective Decisions: Hip Living in a Shipping Container
2007-08-24 23:31:00 It is that time of year to get on the bus and head back to school. Preparing for class and back-to-school activities is not our most sustainability-focused time or year. We want to buy new clothes,...
By: Green Options
When Green Building Isn't Helpful
2007-08-20 17:08:00 In this past weekend's local newspaper's Real Estate Section I saw an article with a number of "award winning" homes, including a 5 bedroom, 6,400 square foot house that was touted as the...
By: Green Options
Weekend Review: The World at Home: A Household Guide to Building
2007-08-18 16:47:00 The World at Home: A Household Guide to Building was produced by the Citizens Environmental Coalition, a non-profit environmental advocacy group based in Albany, NY. This is something between a book...
By: Green Options
Eco-Effective Labels Galore: Going Deeper- The Marketing and Design of a Ne
2007-08-15 22:22:00 Last week I wrote an article about the new private ?green? labels that electronics companies are tacking on their more energy-efficient products. Some companies are using their own labeling systems;...
By: Green Options
Eco-Effective Decisions: Live in the First Cradle-to-Cradle Apartment Devel
2007-08-03 16:57:00 William McDonough and Partners is teaming up this year with a list of other local and international architecture, engineering, and design firms to form Greenbridge Developments LLC, a new company...
By: Green Options
Think Green For Back To School
2007-08-02 15:06:00 For many families, it's the time of year when back to school is growing closer and closer. When shopping for school supplies, it's important to keep greener options in mind. From paper to pencils,...
By: Green Options
Eco-Effective Options: Prefabrication and Modularity
2007-07-27 16:28:00 Prefabrication and Modularity are new eco buzzwords on the menu this year. From homes to furniture, designers are beginning to employ new methods of construction and transportation to cut waste and...
By: Green Options
Eco Effective Decisions: Vote on Sustainable Design for the Future
2007-07-20 16:12:00 In the design world, often times young architecture/design firms and even individual designers will apply to competitions during the young part of their career to get public recognition, build...
By: Green Options
Eco Effective Decisions: Vote on Sustainable Design for the Future
2007-07-20 16:12:00 In the design world, often times young architecture/design firms and even individual designers will apply to competitions during the young part of their career to get public recognition, build...
By: Green Options
Green Building Elements: Alternative Countertops
2007-07-16 22:43:00 Image Credit: PaperStone There are a number of options available when it comes to selecting material for counters and tops. There are options from the all-natural to the all-synthetic, and ranges in...
By: Green Options
Green Brews: It's All in the Bottle
2007-07-01 18:48:00 The Heineken World Bottle was designed with multiple functions. Image courtesy of hyperexperience.comIf we really want to be sustainable when it comes to our brew, we will consider the package. ...
By: Green Options
Green Film Review: The Next Industrial Revolution
2007-06-26 22:30:00 William McDonough and Michael Braungart: Cradle to Cradle designers teach us that waste is a design flaw. When we follow nature's rules, growth is good. The question before us is not growth...
By: Green Options
Green Design Dialogues: A Round Table Discussion with Green Designers, Part
2007-06-22 17:35:00 This is the final installment of my summary of our Green Design Dialogue discussion on May 25. I introduced the participating designers in my first post, and continued summarizing our discussion on...
By: Green Options
Eco-Effective Decisions: Lean, Green, Tiny Cleaning Machines Naturally Reme
2007-06-22 17:02:00 Devils Lake installation: image courtesy of Green Museum There is a little family of asexual plants commonly known as duckweed, and otherwise known in the botanical world as lemnaceae. These...
By: Green Options
Green Design Dialogues: A Round Table Discussion with Green Designers, Part
2007-06-15 14:21:00 Screen shots of Design Can Change In my first report on Green Design Dialogues, I introduced the six participants of our May 25 discussion on green design and summarized a bit of what we talked about. Obviously, sustainability and design is a huge topic, and one these green designers love to talk about, so here is a continuation of our first Green Design Dialogue. The energy of our conversation was rising as we discussed changes in the design industry. It is clear that designers are slowly beginning a journey towards a more sustainable way of working. Eric K said, "We're crawling, but it may be a little messy before we really work things out." Sustainability really offers a great opportunity for the design industry, and we all agreed that it's taking hold and will be very important to design in the future. The paper industry is one example of a growing consciousness of green practices. Paper companies are big contributors to pollution and greenhouse gases, and th...
By: Green Options
Green Design Dialogues: A Round Table Discussion with Green Designers, Part
2007-06-08 14:54:00 "Mr. Green" poster design by Von Glitschka Sustainability is becoming a pressing concern to the graphic design community. Designers are buzzing about it as they try to green their own practices and make sense of it all. In order to tap into this buzz, I organized a round table virtual discussion with several people involved in the design industry to chat about green design and the growing sensibilities of sustainability in our field. "Green Design Dialogues" was born as a way to build the green design community and learn from each other. Our first discussion, via instant messaging, was May 25th. We touched on a broad range of topics relating to green design, which I will report on in a series of "Green Design Dialogues" posts in coming weeks. This week, I'll introduce the crew involved with our first Green Design Dialogue and relay each designer's experience with green design before summarizing our discussion. Involved in the chat were designers...
By: Green Options
Weekend Review: The Lazy Environmentalist
2007-06-02 18:40:00 My problem with The Lazy Environmentalist, green radio host Josh Dorfman's self-proclaimed "guide to easy, stylish, green living" isn't that it lacks information. It's actually a quite comprehensive guide to supporting green companies. I dog-eared multiple pages so I could visit websites of the companies in which I was interested. But it's not so much a guide to green living as it's a guide to green buying. I guess the tone set forth from the brief introduction rubbed me the wrong way: These innovators make it easy for us to integrate environmental awareness into our lives. They understand that while so many of us are concerned about the environment, we don't always have the time, energy, or inclination to do something about it. I only wish this was written in a less-than-serious voice. In my mind, if you don't have the "time, energy, or inclination" to do something about the environment, than you can hardly classify yourself as ...
By: Green Options
Greenbottle Creates Eco-Friendly Milk Jug
2007-05-31 14:29:00 Is there a more eco-friendly way to package milk besides plastic jugs and gable-top cartons? A UK company seems to think so. Greenbottle is a new two-part milk packaging system that was recently test-piloted in Asda supermarkets during a one-week trial. The bottles quickly sold out. Designed by Martin Myerscough from Framlingham, Suffolk, the bottle consists of a pulped recycled cardboard outer (think cardboard egg cartons) and a corn-based bioplastic bag liner. After the milk is gone, the bioplastic bag can be removed and composted, and the outer shell can be recycled or composted.
By: Green Options
Green Funerals and Burial
2007-05-28 17:33:00 Photo Credit: GreenspringsThe move towards a greener lifestyle extends even to the end of life. Choices for the final resting place include some relatively new approaches. Many of these developments seem to be coming out of the United Kingdom and from Europe, though they are being adopted in other countries, as well. Green burials are now being performed in park- or forest-like settings. The more familiar green lawn with rows of stone markers is being replaced by a more natural setting, a meadow or a stand of trees. Green burials also forego many of the common contemporary conventions in favor of a simpler funeral and burial practive. Green burials do not use formaldehyde compounds to preserve the body, for example. Metal coffins, or coffins that use exotic and unsustainably harvested wood are also not allowed, as well as not using concrete burial vaults. Many of these steps are both more economical choices as well as avoiding consuming quantities of resources unnecessarily....
By: Green Options
Cradle to Cradle
2007-05-23 03:56:00 I just thought this book by William McDonough could not be left out on this website.. » original news
By: superuse
Book Review: Bill McKibben's Hope, Human and Wild
2007-04-26 15:07:00 Bill McKibben's highly successful Step It Up campaign may have overshadowed the release of his latest book Deep Economy, which probably overshadowed the recent paperback re-release of one of McKibben's earlier books, 1995's Hope, Human and Wild: True Stories of Living Lightly on the Earth. Luckily, this second edition of Hope (Milkweed Editions), largely in part because of a new afterword by McKibben, remains relevant, and, like its title says, hopeful. The book discusses, in four sections, pockets of civilization that can give us hope for sustainable communities and environments. McKibben starts with arguably the driest section, chronicling the regrowth of wildlife in New England despite our best efforts to completely destroy it. Although the most tedious of the book, I found this section full of promise because it reminded me that in our quest to "save the environment", we are really saving humanity: the earth will continue to bounce back long after we'...
By: Green Options
Essential Resources for a Changing Design Industry
2007-04-20 20:25:00 Sustainability is gaining popularity among every industry, and the graphic design community is no exception. When I was writing my thesis on sustainable and socially-conscious graphic design just a few years ago in college, good resources on the subject were hard to come by. Now it seems that discussion sustainability in design is cropping up everywhere, and design organizations and studios are jumping on the green bandwagon. All I can say is, it's about time! So, why should designers and communications professionals be concerned about sustainability? First of all, because everyone should. Second, designers are responsible for a hell of a lot of paper and resource use, as many designers create printed materials every day. Third, designers are in a unique position: we are communicators, capable of informing, educating, persuading, enlightening, facilitating, and of course, selling. We have the ability to incite action, change minds, and open eyes. I couldn't think of a bette...
By: Green Options
Eco-Friendly Yarns Promote Greener Knitting Projects
2007-04-20 05:51:00 Knitting and crocheting have experienced a renewed popularity as a new generation of crafters embrace their needles and yarn. As a knitter myself, I love heading to my local yarn store (LYS) to check out the beautiful multicolored skeins. The big question for an eco-friendly knitter is this: what kinds of yarn leave the lightest footprint? Many knitters steer away from acrylic for various performance reasons, but synthetic yarns are also bad for the earth, since they are made from petroleum. Vegans object to using wool, and, although great for many heirloom projects, are just not as sustainable as some of the newer options. Industrially-produced cotton brings with it a slew of environmental problems, including water and soil pollution. Until recently, my LYS only had earth-toned organic cotton, which was beautiful for a baby blanket, but didn't allow for enough variety for a range of projects. Is there anything else out there that will allow me to make awesome crafts in a...
By: Green Options
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