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Myoo Uses Crowdsourcing for Sustainability Solutions

The new company behind Levi's recent Care to Air contest works with brands to launch sustainability-focused crowdsourcing challenges that engage consumers and spur innovation.READ MORE›

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The Hub Bay Area: Where Change Agents Share Space and Ideas

The newest location of a global network of sustainable shared workspaces lives up to its tagline: "Where Change Goes to Work."READ MORE›

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The Green Products Innovation Institute: Is This What "More Good" Looks Like?

A new sustainability certification system for products has just been unveiled by Cradle to Cradle guru William McDonough and endorsed by California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. Is it the change we've been looking for? READ MORE›

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Biomimicry Challenge: For IBM, Smart Design Draws Water Conservation Inspiration From Ecosystems

Smart Design was paired with IBM's SmarterCity initiatives to find a better way to monitor water consumption on a personal, community, and societal level. READ MORE›

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Biomimicry Challenge: IDEO Taps Octopi and Flamingos to Reorganize the USGBC

The Boston office of IDEO worked with the United States Green Building Council to find a new organizational structure that matched their sustainable mission.READ MORE›

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Biomimicry Challenge: TOA Uses Fungi to Reimagine Sustainable Neighborhoods

The Mexico City-based firm Taller de Operaciones Ambientales worked with Portland-based Brightworks to create a new model for designing ecodistricts, with mushrooms, spores, and saguaro cacti as their guides.READ MORE›

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Traveling Pants, Indeed: The Closet-Exchange Program thredUP Adds Kids' Clothes

A company that allows people to shop unworn clothing in other people's closets has launched a network focusing on kids' clothes.READ MORE›

Designing a Movement: Seven Principles for Sustainable Action

Valerie Casey recaps her Designers Accord keynote from last week's SXSW Interactive festival, and includes some suggestions for action designers can take today.READ MORE›

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What Would You Ask Nature? Submit to the Biomimicry Institute/Designers Accord Challenge!

Deadline to submit is March 17! We've picked three teams from leading design firms who will be working with biologists. Now all we need is your company's real-world design problem.READ MORE›

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Fashion Forward: A Sustainability Report Helps Clothing Brands Plan for the Future

A trend report produced by Forum for the Future and Levi Strauss & Co. allows companies to envision the year 2025 with a workshop guide and a series of clever animations.READ MORE›

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Nature's Path Leads Consumers Through Complicated Grocery Shelves

To help differentiate a brand of organic cereal, Seattle-based egg created a campaign that brought consumers in step with the sustainable values of a family-owned company.READ MORE›

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The KOR ONE Bottle Changes Behavior by Beautifying Water

How to get consumers to swear off disposable plastic water bottles? Turn a reusable vessel into something irresistible.READ MORE›

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DesigNYC Matches Designers With Non-Profits in Need

A new program aims to serve New York City by matching 10 designers with 10 non-profit organizations for pro-bono work. READ MORE›

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The Problem Is Not Packaging Design, It's Systems Design

This dirty world of waste is part of a bigger problem and an unlikely source may be the solution. Eco-practitioner Wendy Jedlicka cracks the whip on designers and packaging.READ MORE›

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An Urban Farm Teaches Millennials How to Disobey

An agricultural intervention in San Francisco hopes to instill a sense of collective action and ownership in 18- to 30-year-olds.READ MORE›

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Plumen Twists Your Ideas of a Low-Impact Light Bulb

How many designers does it take to change the lightbulb? A bright new concept for CFLs.READ MORE›

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A Wood Sound System That Does Both the Planet and Your iPod Good

The Vers wooden stereo system is better for the environment and makes your music sound better, too.READ MORE›

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Preserve Everyday Tableware Is Designed for Consumers to Keep

A new line of recycled plastic tableware uses tactile cues to tell its users not to throw it away--and what to do with it when it's ready to be turned into something new.READ MORE›

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