Topic: Styrofoam

Talking Trash

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»

Nine Ideas to Save the World, Inspired by Buckminster Fuller [UPDATED]

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»

10 Tips to Green Your Corporate Office, Event, and Party Groove

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. READ»

Art Mania in Miami

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»

Pop Sci Picks the Year's Best Garage Inventions

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»

Mr. Social: Ashton Kutcher Plans to Be the Next New-Media Mogul

How Ashton Kutcher is pioneering a new kind of media business, bridging Hollywood, technology, and Madison Avenue. Really.READ»

• Facebook and Twitter Offer Businesses Opportunities and Challenges

The Art of Being Progressive

This company's art collection reflects what it wants to be: innovative and stimultating.READ»

Leader in Corporate Sustainability Arena Comments on Wal-Mart's Position

Scott Seydel remarks on my recent post on Conscious Capitalism as it relates to Wal-Mart.READ»

I Can Dream, Can't I?

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»

Club E-Tox

A Spy in the House of WorkREAD»

NASA Coaxes Biofuel From Bags of Sewage

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»

6dot Braille Labeler: An Intuitive Labeling System for the Blind

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»

22. Dollars From Detritus

Previous | Next 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»

22. Dollars From Detritus

Previous | Next 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»

50 Ways to Green Your Business

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»

Permanently Temporary

A Spy in the House of WorkREAD»

A New Breed of Eco-Designers Reimagines the Detritus of Our Daily Lives

Eco-designers are crafting clever solutions that will divert tons of waste from landfills.READ»

Engines of Democracy

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»

Four Tips for Breaking into the Green-Collar Job Market

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»

• Ten Best Green Jobs for the Next Decade
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Group Genius

That's what creativity gurus Matt and Gail Taylor seek to unleash with their mind-bending workshops.READ»

Eco-restaurant puts its money where its mouth is

When I lived in San Francisco, I was obsessed with a local lunch chain called Mixt Greens. Analogous to its name, the restaurant offers a variety of organic salad fixings and veggie-heavy sandwiches.  I was transfixed by Mixt– ...READ»

Making a Map to a New World

For Bruce Mau, design is a way to help solve the planet's biggest problems. That's why he hopes to start a global conversation about how to create change in the world.READ»

Hollywood's New Game

Technology and entertainment can mix -- if you combine the right strategy with the right kind of organization. That's the lesson behind the rise of Sega GameWorks. Although the company is based in Hollywood, the model is pure Silicon Valley.READ»