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Valley Forge Fabrics Is Green – And We’re Not Talking About Fabric Color

Over the past year, Valley Forge Fabrics has seen its green initiatives evolve into a breakthrough new product with the potential to deliver a disruptive competitive advantage. Read on to see how Valley Forge is harnessing the true potential of ethonomics. READ»

Recycle Your Used College Textbooks at GreenTextbooks.org - Green Textbooks

GreenTextbooks.org Save Money, Save The Planet GreenTextbooks.org specializes in the recycling of textbooks, DVDs, CDs. Buying used textbooks not only saves you money, but cuts down on greenhouse gases caused by the manufacturing of new textbooks. With GreenTextbooks.org you're not only saving trees, you are saving some green. http://www.GreenTextbooks.orgREAD»

The Itsy-Bitsy Green Bikini: The Iconic Two-Piece Turns 63, Gets Recycled

It was 63 years ago today that the bikini was first unveiled at a fashion show. At the time, the skimpy swim suit was so scandalous that not a single model agreed to wear it down the catwalk--and in the end, designers had to enlist ...READ»

Fast Cities: Malmö, Sweden

After recession nearly wiped out Malmö's industrial base in the 1980s, the city had a chance to start over. It created eco-friendly neighborhoods of transformed tenements and old shipyards.READ»

• Fast Cities 2009

Postcard from Beijing

What do Starbucks and smog have in common? Opportunity. As I walk around Beijing, the signs of the 2008 Olympics fading into memory, I am struck by the fact that every corner has a Starbucks, not to mention other ubiquitous American ...READ»

How TerraCycle Plans to Takeover the Garbage Industry

Fast Interview: In this Q&A, TerraCycle founder Tom Szaky talks about why eco-friendly products don't have to be expensive, his quest to corner the trash market, and why his wife performed in Carnegie Hall in a dress made from recycled juice pouches.READ»

• The Global Electronic Waste Problem

Signs of the Times - - and the Times to Come

In the past week I’ve seen three companies and one surprising manifestation of the cleantech revolution that’s shaping up worldwide. All of these observations are worth sharing as a means of peering into the cleantech crystal ...READ»

Waste is...well, Just A Waste!

In a recent blog, I told you about a trip to Walmart and how they have slashed waste in all of their stores, saving money and the environment at the same time. The more I talk about this, the more I realize how many companies are ...READ»

What Does Walmart Know?

Last week I visited Walmart’s annual sustainable packaging conference in Bentonville, Arkansas. I learned that the first such meeting took place in a conference room in Walmart’s headquarters just three years ago and 50 ...READ»

First Experience with Facebook Ads

For the past year, Earth911 has been undergoing a big re-launch and re-positioning from its former not-for-profit status into a real tool for sustainability -- a social venture. When it was founded by my late friend Chris Warner in ...READ»