sustainability

Status of Stimulus Funds for Green Businesses: Pools and Channels

Greenies to Gov: Show us the moneyREAD»

Will "Active Packaging" Undermine Apple's Quest for Sustainability?

Apple has been seriously pushing its environmental credibility recently, claiming that the MacBook is "The world's greenest lineup of notebooks" and bragging about the lack of toxic materials in its products. But the company's ...READ»

Nature's 10 Simple Rules for Business Survival

In the emerging fields of biomechanics and biomimicry, scientists are decoding rules that can help form businesses as hardy and long lasting as a forest. After all, nature is far harsher than the market: If you are not sustainable, ...READ»

• Green Business: Carbon Copy

How Xerox Tapped the Power of Reuse

Listening to the cacophony of calls for green business, green jobs, and green economies, you'd think that everyone now is for a green future. But unless your company is manufacturing solar panels or making socks from bamboo, ...READ»

• Nature's 10 Simple Rules for Survival

A Tour of America's First Zero-Impact, Supergreen "Living Building"

The Omega Center for Sustainable Living is designed to make a LEED Gold structure look like a Superfund site. The $3.2 million Rhinebeck, New York, structure, which opens in July, will be the nation's first certified "living ...READ»

Patagonia’s Founder on Why There’s “No Such Thing as Sustainability”

Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard may be pessimistic about the earth's future, but he's determined to keep fighting. An exclusive interview.READ»

• Patagonia Founder Yvon Chouinard and Tom Brokaw Talk Green Marketing [video]
• Can Wal-Mart Be Sustainable? Ask Patagonia Founder Yvon Chouinard [video]

A Vote Against the Waxman-Markey Climate Change Bill is a vote for the Do Nothing Tax of 2009

With so many challenges facing our country and the U.S. government, many people have doubted whether we would see significant action on climate change this year.  They may still prove correct, but with the passage of the ...READ»

Sole Power Tile Makes Adding Solar Easy

An integrated roofing element that mimics traditional barrel tile is a more sustainable way to harvest the sun.READ»

• Case Studies in Sustainability from the Designers Accord: An Introduction

Case Studies in Sustainability from the Designers Accord: An Introduction

Valerie Casey, founder and executive director of the global sustainability movement, introduces a new series of case studies on FastCompany.com.READ»

• Building a Sustainable Design Community
• 2008 Masters of Design

Why Bernard Madoff is NOT a symbol of our times

Lots of attention will be paid this week to the sentencing of Bernard Madoff, and rightfully so. But if we pay too much attention, we risk missing the bigger or more important story of how the U.S. wound up in the longest recession since the 1930s. READ»

Philippe Starck's Anti-Fashion Cashmere Line Defies Trends, Consumerism

French designer Philippe Starck, better known for interior and product design, is getting into fashion, though Starck would rather not call it that. Working with Scottish cashmere company Ballantyne, the S+arck With Ballantyne line ...READ»

Innovation...Is it top down or bottom up?

The reality is it’s both but most of the time it depends on your business, how big you are and how you’ve structured it! For those that are unclear, top down innovation is normally the domain of the small business owner or ...READ»

Patagonia Founder Yvon Chouinard and Tom Brokaw Talk Green Marketing [video]

The founder of Patagonia explains why businesses giving back to the planet is green marketing.READ»

The Importance of Inspirational Leadership

Historically, business has used carrots and sticks to get performance OUT of people. Today, we need to become leaders who can INSPIRE performance IN people.READ»

Can Wal-Mart Be Sustainable? Ask Patagonia Founder Yvon Chouinard [video]

The founder of Patagonia explains why Wal-Mart is his biggest and unlikeliest ally.READ»

Six Essential Strengths Of An Employee Volunteer Program; An Interview With Shannon Schuyler of PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Looking for some insight on how to create an outstanding Employee Volunteer Program? Shannon Schuyler of PricewaterhouseCoopers offers six essential strengths to ensure success.READ»

Does Wal-Mart's 2009 Sustainability Report Stand Up?

When it comes to sustainability, it's hard to be the world's largest public corporation. It oftentimes means tripling or quadrupling the green efforts of other large corporations just to get the same results. And according to its ...READ»

Coca-Cola Japan Sells Easy-Crush Water Bottles to Save Plastic, But Is It Greenwashing?

Good for more than just illusory feats of strength, Coca-Cola Japan's new 520ml I LOHAS mineral water bottles can be easily crushed into a 12 gram piece of plastic--that's 40% less plastic than similar PET bottles. ...READ»

How to Succeed in Green Business Without Really Trying

Small businesses are the backbone of the economy, and our back is hurting.  The down economy has strained a great number of small businesses, which while viewed as essential for the economy are not too big to fail.  Byron Kennard ...READ»

Genomatica: Green and Profitable Chemistry with Microbes

The global chemical industry, worth trillions of dollars a year, has relied heavily on oil and natural gas.  While we often associate the green business world with solar panels and electric cars, change is brewing in industries ...READ»

Three Ideas for Creating a Zero-Impact City Block in Dallas

How would you create a city block that was fully sustainable? A competition to redevelop an entire block of downtown Dallas asked urban planners to do just that, and the finalists have just been announced.READ»

Intel's Long-Term Plan: Spend Money to Make Money

When it comes to economic crisis, grizzled veterans like Intel have stared into the abyss before and lived to tell the tale. We look at how several giants are approaching today's meltdown with distinctive strategies for not only surviving but also thriving.READ»

10 Trends that Will Keep the Green Economy Growing

There is no saying what the business world will do the in short term, but these long term trends are a good bet to keep growing the green business world in the years ahead: 1. Oil will cost more There’s only ...READ»

It’s Okay for Green Businesses to Make Money

When people talk to me about the green business they're working on, it will sometimes become apparent as we talk that at least part of the problem they are encountering may not be what they think it is.  Rather than being an issue ...READ»

Reinventing the Coffee Business Around Ethics and Sustainability: Dean Cycon

Completely organic and fair-trade coffee at supermarket prices...locally-directed sustainability projects in coffee-producing villages...and the integrity to turn down the wrong kind of customer, even if it means giving up millions of dollars--Dean Cycon runs a very different kind of coffee company.READ»