It’s not easy being green. Anybody who’s ever really tried to minimize his or her carbon footprint, knows that even when you’re committed to recycling and responsible purchasing, you can be foiled by forces outside your ...READ»
The visionary architect Buckminster Fuller believed that a single design could save the world. That ethos is being carried forward by the Buckminster Fuller Institute, which every year holds a contest to create a design with maximum ...READ»
Been cutting costs by greening the office? Thinking about how to reduce further, even when it is time to court Expo attendees or a ball room of potential investors? Shake it like a Polaroid Picture or Electric Slide on down the page for 9 tips (and reasons why) corporate offices and events are jumping to a green groove.
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The art world's been making headlines recently, with record auction prices for both modern and contemporary art set at Sotheby’s and Christies’ last month. But they, evidently, were simply the appetizer course to the Grand Buffet ...READ»
Popular Science just announced its picks for the 2009 Innvention Awards, which highlight work done on a low budget by tinkerers. It's an inspiring lot that addresses big problems---Look at the GenShock, a shock absorber for ...READ»
The SF List of over 1,000 required or suggested products is intended primarily to assist city staff, but it's also a helpful tool for anyone seeking unbiased information about green products.READ»
CEO Dad's Tuesday Tirade
You may not think that a comic strip character can dream. I am fictional, after all. And I know my creator, Tom Stern, might be a little freaked out to learn that his two-dimensional, ...READ»
There are lots of creative ways to produce biofuel from algae, but NASA's takes the cake. The space agency is growing biofuel in plastic bags of sewage floating in the sea. The Offshore Membrane Enclosures for Growing Algae (OMEGA) ...READ»
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Forget Styrofoam cups. We could end up drowning in old motherboards and monitors. "One hundred million PCs will be retired worldwide this year. They can't all go to landfills." So says Stampp Corbin, whose ...READ»
Next time a company brags about their sustainable packaging, ask why they aren't growing it themselves. Steelcase, a Michigan-based office furniture company, is doing exactly that as part of a partnership with packaging startup ...READ»
Half-a-hundred options for cleaning up your business, from the universal (catch that rainwater!) to the specific (lose the plastic bowls!). Mix, match--join in.READ»
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Forget Styrofoam cups. We could end up drowning in old motherboards and monitors. "One hundred million PCs will be retired worldwide this year. They can't all go to landfills." So says Stampp Corbin, whose ...READ»
Impressive advances for the blind abound, but a MIT design team has taken blind technology back to basics with the 6dot Braille Labeler, a tool that prints labels in Braille. The labeler, which was this week selected as the James ...READ»
Light waves, a giant dome, and 400,000 pounds of cast-off hair are among the innovative solutions sought to help clean up the massive, growing oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico.READ»
The General Electric plant in Durham, North Carolina builds some of the world's most powerful jet engines. But the plant's real power lies in the lessons that it teaches about the future of work and about workplace democracy.READ»
Global warming is opening up the Arctic Circle, and Russia would like to control its bounty of natural resources. An exclusive dispatch from the Yamal Peninsula, where reindeer give way to railroads and gas rigs every day.READ»
We already told you which green jobs are sure to solar-charge your career. Now, here's how to smartly plunge into the green-collar job market, with tips from SustainLane Media CEO James Elsen.READ»
