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How Best Buy Is Revolutionizing the Way We Shop

When is the last time you walked into Target, Walmart, Kmart or (insert name of any major retailer here) to find they completely overhauled the footprint of their store? We're not talking one or two departments or switching out grills ...READ»

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Students Find $350 Million in Savings at Bloomberg, eBay, McDonald’s

Major corporations can save millions with simple energy efficiency tweaks--if they know where to look. That's where this group of MBA students can help. READ»

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Google Instant Redefines Your ABCs

A is for AOL. B is for Bank of America. C is for Craigslist. Say what? Presenting the default search results of New Google -- in rhyming couplets.READ»

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Your Smartphone Will Soon Double as Your Wallet

The race is on to transform your smartphone into your wallet.READ»

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Iris Scanners Create the Most Secure City in the World. Welcome, Big Brother

Biometrics R&D firm Global Rainmakers is rolling out iris scanning technology to create "the most secure city in the world."READ»

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Seventh Generation to Sell Products in Walmart Stores, Hell to Sell Ice

Hell must be a little icy this time of year. That's the only conclusion we can come to with this week's news that Seventh Generation and Walmart are forming a strategic partnership that will see the non-toxic cleaning product company sell its products at 1,500 Walmart stores and on Walmart.com. READ»

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The Climate Bill Is Dead, But Large Businesses Will Pursue Sustainability Anyway

The climate bill's death in the U.S. Senate last week was a major blow to environmentalists everywhere. As a result of extensive infighting, the watered-down bill omits cap-and-trade, energy efficiency standards, and the Renewable ...READ»

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Industry-Wide Eco Index Will Rate Apparel on Sustainability [Updated]

Judging by the recent actions of companies like Walmart and Samsung, sustainability indexes (aka green supply chain rating systems) are the next big thing in corporate social responsibility. So it isn't all that surprising that a ...READ»

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Invincible Apple: 10 Lessons From the Coolest Company Anywhere

Everyone wants to be like Steve Jobs and his powerhouse company. It's not as easy as it looks.READ»

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iPhone 4 Sales Prediction of 3 Million a Month Suggests End of AT&T Exclusivity

Apple's new iPhone is due to burst upon an unsuspecting world in barely two weeks, with a staged, international roll-out. But Apple is seriously banking on this thing selling like hotcakes. And by hotcakes, we mean millions a ...READ»

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The Last Haul: Stalked by Oil, Gulf Coast Fishermen Grab Everything They Can

Oystermen, fishermen, and shrimpers around Apalachicola Bay--where seafood is an $80 million a year business--share thoughts about their drastically altered lives, the reason for their overfishing, and the Faustian bargain that's been struck with BP.READ»

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A History of Green Brands: 1990's

In this post, Landor Associate's Chief Strategy Officer, Russ Meyer's outlines the problems with waste, the need to recycle and early signs of global warming.Despite all the green gains made during the 1980s, throughout most of the ...READ»

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Sustainability Faceoff: Walmart vs. Target

There can be only one winner in the battle of the big box retailers. In the new book "The HIP Investor," author R. Paul Herman compares Walmart and Target in terms of profit, management, and human impact (health, wealth, earth, equality, trust). So which retailer is more sustainable?READ»

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Nook Outsells Kindle in First Month on Sale, Lessons for eReader, Tablet Rivals

Barnes & Noble's e-reader, the Nook, has busted the Kindle, according to figures released by DigiTimes research today. It accounted for 53% of all e-reader sales in March, although this can be put down in part to consumers' ...READ»

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Labor Activist Charles Kernaghan: Microsoft Must Have Known of Supplier's Worker Abuses

This week, the National Labor Committee's report into the scandalous conditions at the KYE plant in Dongguan City, China, revealed that 16- and 17-year-old workers, often students on their three-month summer break, endure 82-hour work ...READ»

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Underage, Underpaid Workers, Sexually Predatory Security Guards at Troubled Chinese Microsoft Supplier

Underage, underpaid workers working 15-hour shifts, sexually predatory security guards, hourly pay of just 52 cents per hour after deductions for the canteen food. No talking during work hours, no listening to music, no bathroom ...READ»

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Making Up for a Small Budget

How e.l.f. cosmetics achieved beautiful growth in an ugly economy thanks to a marketing makeover by CMO Ted Rubin. READ»

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Kindle and Nook to Go Retail: Can It Save Them From the iPad?

Both the Kindle and Nook, the two most prominent e-ink e-book readers, will be going on sale at Target and Best Buy. But is that enough to save them from becoming obsolete?READ»

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Target Embraces Recycling in U.S. Stores

File this under "Better Late Than Never:" Target has launched recycling stations in all of its 1,740 stores as part of a month-long Earth Day celebration. Previously, the chain didn't have any recycling bins in its stores.But ...READ»

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100 Green Marketing Ideas

The one thing you can’t afford to cut during economic downturns is marketing. This is the time when you must reach out to pick up new customers, cement relationships with old customers and brand your company. But if you have a green business conventional marketing may make you think twice. Can you really send out flyers? (even if it is on recycled paper) Does promoting your business in newspapers sound a little like sponsoring the destruction of millions of trees? Here are some very cool gentle green marketing ideas that will help bring in customers and secure your brand as truly eco-friendly while saving you a bundle in marketing costs. The first few are exclusively using the power of the internet for free marketing strategies, the rest are ways to pull in customers without using conventional, wasteful marketing tactics. READ»

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How Spin Master Mixes Tech and Toys—And Keeps Mattel Looking Over Its Shoulder

How Spin Master Toys created the hit Liv dolls, a thoroughly modern marriage of tech, storytelling, and 21st-century marketing that has industry giant Mattel looking over its shoulder.READ»

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Infographic of the Day: Comparing the 100 Largest Sites on the Internet

What types of sites get the most traffic?READ»

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Converse Starts a New Business on the Side

Converse are the lo-fi sneakers that everyone loves--precisely because of their "can't change, won't change"-ness. And now, with a little help from Takahiro Miyashita, designer of now-extant, but-still-cult Japanese label Number ...READ»

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Logos Get Lost in the Supermarket, Here's Why

With consumer focus shifting towards lines like Walmart's Great Value brand, Jamey Boiter wonders if the days of bright, colorful, attractive logos might be numbered.READ»

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METHOD, More of an Organism Than an Organization?

Co-founder Adam Lowry says “we are not in the soap business, we are in the clean business.” READ»