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 transportation study assesses trends and challenges in public transportation and parking, in the face of population growth and urban migration patterns.
The Carbon Clean 200 are already capitalizing on the transition to a low-carbon future; BP’s latest scenarios support that strategy
New offerings by IKEA, Loll Designs add more options for consumers invested in living more sustainably.
Light of Hope had the rather ingenious idea of fitting a solar panel-powered classroom into a backpack.
Two startup accelerators highlight the latest startup solutions poised to disrupt our food system for good.
Cross-Posted from Supply Chain. Players large and small are innovating to optimize what goes into — and comes out of — alcohol production.
A first-of-its-kind, global shopping platform, Loop™ aims to offer zero-waste packaging options for the world’s most popular consumer products.
Cross-Posted from Circular Economy. Circle Economy, Ellen MacArthur Foundation release new findings in Davos
Cross-Posted from Circular Economy. 5th annual awards received highest-ever number of applicants competing for circular economy recognition.
Five global brands sign joint 42.5-MW energy deal, creating a new blueprint for renewable energy aggregation.
New report uses the term “Earth-Functional Foods” to describe food that provides environmental benefits beyond health.
With the 2019 Tech for a Better World honorees, CES makes the statement that technology should positively impact humanity and the natural world.
Did you hear the story of the little girl in India who called the police to report her dad over a toilet?
Two recent, industry-changing announcements from food giants Carl’s Jr. and Nestlé mean more dining options for health- and environment-conscious consumers that might not violate their New Year’s resolutions.
Continuing this year’s wave of near-constant innovations aimed at responsible management of post-consumer plastics are new advancements from both the private and public sector. BASF making products with chemically recycled plastics BASF announced it has broken new ground in plastic waste recycling with its ChemCycling project. Chemical recycling provides an innovative way to reutilize currently unrecyclable plastic waste, such as mixed or uncleaned plastics. Depending on the region, such waste is usually sent to landfill or burned with energy recovery.
What better way to commemorate the season of giving than with gifts that really give more?
This week, more momentum on the anti-plastic front: Unilever will develop a crowdsourced, plastic-free laundry solution to combat single-use sachets; while Stora Enso and Sulapac are developing renewable drinking straws. Unilever to invest €100K in crowdsourced alternative to plastic packaging CPG giant Unilever has announced that it will invest €100,000 in a new, plastic-free laundry tablet — a crowdsourced innovation that has the potential to replace single-use sachets of laundry powder, a popular format for laundry detergents in the developing world that is problematic in terms of plastic waste.
Next week, at the COP24 climate summit in Poland, a Swedish startup is set to unveil what it hails as the world's first carbon-negative fuel. NextFuel briquettes
US-based multinational 3M launches approximately 1,000 new products each year; starting in 2019, 100 percent of them will have sustainability built in: Today, at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP24), 3M announced its first formal requirement that, beginning in 2019, all new products will include a Sustainability Value Commitment that demonstrates how they drive impact for the greater good.
This is the final post in a four-part series on geomimicry by renowned author and George Mason University professor Dr. Gregory C. Unruh. Read parts one, two and three.