Innovation & Technology
The latest products, services, design approaches and business models that are helping organizations of all sizes deliver on their sustainability ambitions and establish a new business as usual
Global Forest Watch 2.0 Fights Deforestation With Google Technology
A new initiative unveiled this week at the United Nations Forum on Forests will use Google technology to provide real-time information to help governments, companies and communities prevent deforestation. ... View More
Project 100 Brings Classy Car-Sharing to Downtown Las Vegas
In an effort to reduce area residents’ need for vehicle ownership within a very car-dependent city, Las Vegas is getting a high-class car-sharing service. ... View More
Virgin Atlantic To Rate In-Flight Meals on Sustainability
UK airline giant Virgin Atlantic has partnered with the Sustainable Restaurant Association, a non-profit that helps UK restaurants improve environmental footprints, to have its entire global catering operation assessed for sustainability. ... View More
Samsung, LG Among First To Make EPEAT Green TV Registry
Samsung and LG now have dozens of television models rated on the Electronic Product Environmental Tool (EPEAT) global registry for greener electronics, which recently expanded to include televisions.EPEAT claims this is the first time a comprehensive... View More
Global Fresh Foods Technology Enables International Salmon Shipment by Sea
Global Fresh Foods, which specializes in extending the shelf life of fresh food, recently announced it has begun using its technology to ship fresh salmon from Chile by sea to the west coast of the U.S. without using ice, environmentally harmful poly... View More
Australian Social Enterprise Partners with WaterAid To Wipe Away Disease in Africa
To prepare for this year's Sustainable Brands Innovation Open (SBIO) competition, we're catching up with some of our favorite entrepreneurial ventures from competitions past ... The next time you visit the loo, consider yourself lucky. While many mig... View More
Whole Foods Partners With Gotham Greens To Build First Commercial Rooftop Greenhouse
Whole Foods and Gotham Greens have come together to construct the country’s first commercial-scale greenhouse farm integrated within a retail grocery space in Brooklyn. ... View More
Facebook Gets Green Light To Build Eco-Friendly Campus Extension
Facebook last week received permission from the Menlo Park City Council to break ground on its second campus, designed by renowned architect Frank Gehry and featuring a tree-covered rooftop garden. ... View More
Richard Branson and Tim Berners-Lee to Judge UK Google Innovation Challenge
Google has announced an initiative to support non-profits in the United Kingdom that use technology in innovative ways to solve global problems. ... View More
Barking Up the Right Tree: How Highland Craftsmen Is Helping the Local Environment, Economy
Forestry has always been critical to the livelihood of residents in the western North Carolina Mountains, but the economically distressed area has suffered since the furniture industry mostly vacated the region. Thanks to the efforts of Marty and Chr... View More
Bombay Sapphire Turns Derelict Mill into Sustainable Distillery
The Bombay Sapphire gin distillery in Hampshire, England has become the first to achieve an “Outstanding” design-stage Building Research Establishment’s Environmental Assessment Method (BREEAM) accreditation, according to a recent announcement.... View More
Oregon Startup Pedals To Cut GHG Emissions in Portland
Portland-based startup-up B-Line says its small team of electrical-tricycle couriers has replaced 20,000 commercial truck and van deliveries since its inception in 2009. ... View More
Resource Revolution White Paper Examines Risks and Rewards of Circular Economy
This article first appeared on edie.net on March 20, 2013.Environmental Data Interactive Exchange (Edie), an online sustainability resource based in the UK, has published an exclusive white paper highlighting the opportunities and challenges of circu... View More
Stanford Selects Cradle to Cradle’s William McDonough as First Living Archive
Stanford University has chosen William McDonough as its first living archive, which will include digital and hard copy artifacts from his life to give current and future generations an insight into the sustainability design leader’s mind. ... View More
Apple Says Worldwide Facilities Now 75% Powered by Renewables
Apple now uses 100% renewable energy sources to power its data centers, taking it to 75% renewables across its worldwide corporate facilities, according to its latest Environmental Progress report. The company says its data centers are powered by a c... View More
Changing Consumers to Users Key To Success of Circular Economy
In January, the Ellen MacArthur Foundation released a new animation, focusing on the role of new business models in the transition to a regenerative circular economy."The Circular Economy: From Consumer to User" (below) is a follow-up to 20... View More
Nike, TechStars Name Nike+ Accelerator Program Winners
Nike and TechStars have announced the winners of its first Nike+ Accelerator program. Select startups are awarded the opportunity to enter a three-month program at a Nike space in Portland, Oregon to build products aimed at helping people to lead mor... View More
Ben & Jerry’s and Ashoka Vet European Social Entrepreneurs with Join Our Core Competition
Ben & Jerry’s and Ashoka last week launched their second Join Our Core competition to find the most innovative young social entrepreneurs in Europe. ... View More
"The Interests of the Commons": Eric Lowitt on the Collaboration Economy
In this recent interview, guest editor Adam Werbach talks with Eric Lowitt, author of the forthcoming book, The Collaboration Economy (Wiley, April 2013). As Lowitt explains, the collaboration economy describes a situation in which “the interest of... View More
Holistic, Brand-Led EPR Initiatives Key for Achieving Benefits of Circular Economy
With three billion new middle-class consumers projected to enter the global marketplace in the coming decades[1], it is now widely acknowledged that the global economy of tomorrow will face material scarcity and supply chain insecurity at an unpreced... View More
