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#ThrowBackThursday: Akwamag Moves Beyond Softening to Become One-Stop Shop for Water Purification
In the lead-up to this year’s Sustainable Brands Innovation Open — our competition for startups poised to make scalable, sustainable impacts — we’re catching up with some of our favorite game-changing solutions from past years. This week, we ... View More
Hong Kong Cleantech Companies Showcase in San Francisco
Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation ("HKSTP") is showcasing Hong Kong's sustainable innovations to the world by leading a delegation of cleantech companies at an event this week in San Francisco.The HKSTP delegation includes ... View More
Starting Now: A Smarter Approach to Sustainability Management
The importance of sustainability has surged over the last two decades, as has the amount of information available and the demands on companies and practitioners – from regulators, customers and investors. At the same time, the new opportunities tha... View More
Pee-Powered Toilet Could Help Light Refugee Camps
Sometimes clean technology doesn't need to be sanitary.Students and staff at the University of the West of England in Bristol now have the opportunity to test out a prototype toilet that uses urine to generate electricity, The Guardian reports.Resear... View More
Smart Water Infrastructure is up to the Challenge
By: Susan Diegelman The First in a Series About Machine-to-Machine Technology and Water Management. ... View More
PE INTERNATIONAL Announces Rebranding as thinkstep and Introduces the thinkstep.one Technology Platform to Accelerate Sustainability for All Companies
Stuttgart/Boston/London, March 11, 2015 – PE INTERNATIONAL, today at its annual customer and partner symposium, unveiled its new name, thinkstep, and introduced thinkstep.one, its next generation platform. thinkstep.one dramatically improves the ef... View More
thinkstep (fka PE International) Launching Comprehensive Platform for Enabling Business Sustainability
Sustainability software and consulting company PE International, creators of the industry-leading GaBi life cycle assessment software and providers of a vast array of tools for sustainability performance management, unveiled its new name – thinkste... View More
BASF’s Creator Space Hosting Symposium on Smart Energy for a Sustainable Future
At the first of three science symposia hosted by BASF in honor of its 150th anniversary, to be held this week in Ludwigshafen, Germany, more than 600 top ranking scientists from academia and business will discuss “Smart Energy for a Sustainable Fut... View More
UK Researchers Make Cheap Solar Cells From Shrimp Shells
Researchers at Queen Mary University of London have for the first time successfully created electricity-generating solar cells with chemicals found in the shells of shrimps and other crustaceans.The materials chitin and chitosan found in the shells a... View More
#ThrowBackThursday: Blue Box Re-Emerges with Zero-Waste Air Filtration Solution
In the lead-up to this year’s Sustainable Brands Innovation Open — our competition for startups poised to make scalable, sustainable impacts — we’re catching up with some of our favorite game-changing solutions from past years. This week, we ... View More
Tesla Promises New Battery Can Power Your Home, Power the Grid
Tesla founder Elon Musk has announced a new project that could get millions of people off the grid.Musk’s increased interest in the emerging energy storage market has led to plans for a giant lithium-ion battery factory. Home and businesses owners ... View More
Waste2Watergy Helping Beverage Companies Brew Power from Wastewater
Waste2Watergy, a Corvallis startup formed at Oregon State University, has secured a $225,000 federal grant to advance technology that cleans organics from brewery wastewater while producing electricity. The company says the technology could revolutio... View More
New Packaging Concepts Could Cut Food Waste
UK recycled packaging manufacturer Spectra unveiled a number of new concepts emphasizing closure technology this week at an industry event in Birmingham.One of the new closure concepts is a two-piece cap that features an inner screw mechanism, which ... View More
Smart Data at the Heart of Pro-Social Brands
“Big Data” and “Social Good” may be the yin and yang of tomorrow’s most successful brands. Both are recognized as important components of contemporary marketing strategy, yet they are not typically thought of as bedmates. That is changing.T... View More
Startup Develops World’s Thinnest Speaker
A startup called Soundlazer claims to have developed the world’s thinnest speaker, made from a new class of plastic polymer. With the ability to reproduce a large range of audio frequencies, the company says it can be used to deliver audio in tight... View More
How Does Sustainability Research Fit Within Business Schools?
This is the fifth of six questions from a roundtable discussion with the directors of sustainability research centers at six top business schools.So there are a couple different ways that we support the research process as an Initiative.One is that w... View More
GM Set to Achieve Renewable Energy Goals 4 Years Early
General Motors for the first time is procuring wind to power its manufacturing operations, enabling one of its Mexico facilities’ electricity needs to be run mostly on renewable energy. This addition of 34 megawatts of wind power allows GM to achie... View More
Closed-Loop Fabric Producers Still Ironing Out Wrinkles in Circular Textile Supply Chain
Interest is growing in new synthetic fabrics and textiles made from waste materials that have the potential to be used again and again. Designed from the outset to work within closed-loop supply cycles, Returnity and Econyl are perhaps the two best-k... View More
New App OpenLabel Aims to Replace Product Labels
Silicon Valley startup OpenLabel has just launched a free iPhone app and website that lets consumers and non-profit partners attach information and product ratings directly onto any barcoded product.After closing half a million dollar seed investment... View More
GE Launches Platform to Explore Tools, Trends in Water Reuse, Energy Efficiency
GE Water & Process Technologies recently launched UsedtoUseful, a new platform that explores the impact of water reuse on industrial and municipal sectors. The site shares industry insight and discusses interesting concepts surrounding the impact... View More
