A new study lays out a vision of the future where we get most of our resources from things we’ve already used. The one trick: It requires making things so they’re easy to reuse in the first place. But if we do, we could save ...READ»
While still in the experimental stage, a new kind of battery can run off of discarded paper, producing electricity with only a little water as a by-product. Forget recycling, soon you'll power your home with yesterday's news.READ»
In Kaunas, Lithuania, the economy has been better. So instead of putting their usual giant tree in the town square, this year an artist constructed a giant Christmas tree made entirely of recycled material.READ»
Method had the pie in the sky plan to take trash from the ocean and turn it into cleaner bottles--but where do you get all that plastic? From a company whose business model involves cleaning up the ocean.READ»
Toy and food drives are a dime a dozen around the holidays. If you want to organize a charitable drive for your office that isn’t the “same old, same old,” here's how to make a difference with a used cell phone drive.
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When University of Pittsburgh students weren't recycling, student Jamie Kimmel designed some new labels to help people realize the consequences of their actions.READ»
The minds behind Repurposed Materials are finding new ways to use scrapped industrial products, keeping them out of landfills and keeping money in people's pockets.READ»
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»
It's hard to know what products mean when they say they are "environmentally friendly" or "fully compostable," but there are rules about what companies can and can't claim about their products.READ»
Instead of constantly buying and discarding new products, what if everything was specifically designed to be recycled or broken down, mimicking the circular process of (non-human) life on earth?READ»
It makes good sense to recycle your computer, your plastic bottles, your old Fast Company magazines (so we can turn them into new ones!) But your toothbrush? Gross.
Still, if you replace your toothbrush every three months, as ...READ»
Aesop, a skin-care company out Melbourne, Australia, has heralded its first push into the U.S. market by opening a kiosk at Grand Central that’s as American as apple pie. Designed by Aesop director Dennis Paphitis and Brooklyn ...READ»
That plastic take-out container from today’s lunch, the disposable pens at your desk, and the bottle from the water you bought the other day will be around for hundreds, perhaps thousands, of years. Despite the promise of ...READ»
There's a cell-phone recycling bin in my supermarket that I've tossed old bricks into when I get the newer, sexier model. But I do wonder what really happens to the stuff I toss in there: Does it get shipped off to Africa, where the ...READ»
Art schools are messy places. They're also places populated by starving students with limited resources. At the Royal College of Art in London, a bit of clever cross-disciplinary collaboration uses the school's scraps to create free ...READ»
The Federal Acquisition Regulations Council is requiring that all new purchases by government agencies be energy efficient, water efficient, bio-based, environmentally preferable or non-ozone depleting and that all federal contractors to support the government’s goals in environmental management.READ»
