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Fast Talk: How This Tattoo Artist Became A Tech Entrepreneur

Meet Fred Giovannitti, whose ability to tease designs out of people's brains proves useful in two very different pursuits: tattoo artistry and environmental engineering.READ»

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Apple Speaks Openly, Discloses Environmental And Rights Issues Among Its Suppliers [Updated]

Apple is famously tight-lipped about almost everything relating to its actual business processes. Today it's shifted the veil slightly, and has released a frank list of issues it has discovered during an audit of its Eastern suppliers. READ»

Meet China's Eco Cops

To enforce new rules from the government and U.S. companies, a new breed of worker is appearing in China: A consultant who helps factories adhere to standards, without causing outrageous costs.READ»

Starbucks Paper Cup Fail: It's A People Problem

The coffee company made admirable promises to reduce its paper waste by encouraging people to bring their own cups, but are the way individual Starbucks are run ruining that effort?READ»

Is Customer Service Scaleable?

Here's a tale of two customer service experiences. It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. Let's start with the bad. More than a month ago, my 6-month-old refrigerator (purchased from Sears) broke. Since it was still ...READ»

The City Of The Future Is Already Here

The future may seem far away and out of reach, but we're already experiencing many of the benefits of technological advances that will make our cities liveable and sustainable homes. You just have to know where to look. READ»

(Re)growing A Wood-Based Economy Could Slash Emissions

Cutting down forests sounds like a bad way to reduce CO2, but new information shows that--if done right--making wood our primary building material (instead of steel or concrete) would be a boon for the environment.READ»

Pessimism Rules the Day--And Why We Can’t Afford It

In the United States, the follies over the debt ceiling have now become so all encompassing that the government in Washington seemingly is unable to focus on anything else.READ»

Bank Of America Releases First Corporate Social Responsibility Report

The company touts its environmental investing and shrinking carbon footprint and--oh yeah--how it's working to fix the housing crisis it helped start.READ»

Focusing On Problems Instead Of Solutions

Author David Bornstein says that when it comes to covering social innovation, the media is doing it wrong. Instead of showing what's wrong in the world, how about showing how smart solutions can bring about change?READ»

Google Visualizes Climate Change

Cal-Adapt, the company's new handy climate-change-impact visualizer, makes it easy to understand the specific effects of climate change on where you live (though you may have to move--your neighborhood might be underwater soon).READ»

Intel Could Prevent The Next Big Oil Disaster

If oil rig operators could see real-time data about how each part of their operation was performing, they might have a better chance of stopping explosions.READ»

China's Environment Is Flailing: Report

Just how bad is that smog in China?READ»

There Are Huge Potential Returns In Cleantech Investments

But if we don't invest now, we're going to pay later.READ»

There Is No Silver Bullet To Kill Carbon, But Maybe We Just Need Silver Buckshot

There is no one solution, but a plethora of smaller projects will slowly be the death of our carbon economy.READ»