Green? Yes. But Just How Sustainable Is Your Product?

Brittni Furrow is one of 55 graduate students and 181 undergrads studying sustainability at ASU. Furrow hopes to create a labeling system that would make it easy to see how sustainable a product is.READ»

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A Tongue-in-Cheek Guide for Green Gadget Buyers

Gee-whiz products! Breakthrough ideas! The next wave of must-have enviro-gear will blow your solar panels off.READ»

The Stars of 'Objectified' Discuss the Future of Stuff at SXSW

The South by Southwest festival in Austin hosted the world premiere of Objectified, a film by Gary Hustwit, the celebrated director of Helvetica, the fascinating and unlikely story behind a font you see absolutely ...READ»

EU Outsources Environmental Projects to Private Companies, Foundations, Other Governments

Want to save the African blackwood tree? You should have been at the EU's first-ever environmental auction in Brussels earlier today. The auction, put on by EuropeAid, put 86 projects up for sale to governments, foundations, and ...READ»

Cadbury Creme Eggs Get A Conscience

By next Easter, your Creme Eggs may be a little less of a guilty pleasure. Cadbury just completed a deal to source fair-trade cocoa from Ghana by the end of summer 2009. The cocoa will come from a cooperative with the delightful ...READ»

Clean Coal a Must, Says Entergy CEO

I sat down yesterday with J. Wayne Leonard, the New Orleans-based CEO of Entergy and the latest utility executive to get on the climate-change train. Leonard, native to my state, ravaged both by Katrina and by the petroleum ...READ»

Google Checks Out The PC of Renewable Energy

Imagine you could go to Home Depot and for a few hundred dollars purchase an appliance that plugs in like a blender and generates a chunk of the energy your home needs, renewable and emissions-free. This dream may be just 12-to-18 ...READ»

Economic Slowdown--Traffic Speeds Up

Finally, a silver lining--the downturn means a faster route to the turnoff. A 29% decrease in snarlups in 2008 was largely attributed to the slowdown in the economy, according to a new list of the top 20 most congested ...READ»

Polar Bears, Shmolar Bears

I belong to a few environmental groups and so I receive a steady stream of flyers from these groups in the mail, more often than not highlighting the plight of whales, polar bears, and wolves.  Even today as the world goes through ...READ»

Ideas Are the Best Stimulus Package

With governments around the world shoveling money out of pubic treasuries in the hopes of stimulating their economies, how about summoning a modicum of creativity to build better mousetraps that consumers might actually want to buy? I mean even at 10% unemployment, that means 90% of the population still has a job and is buying stuff. If we can come up with a few good ideas, we can put people to work making things and, hopefully, sell a few more widgets at home and abroad.READ»