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Nike’s Six Million Environmental Design Tool. Now Yours. For Free.

Posted on December 14, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Nike’s Six Million Environmental Design Tool. Now Yours. For Free.

Image: Nike A couple of weeks ago Nike unveiled a for-general-consumption version of their Environmental Apparel Design Tool. It is a replica of the calculator they use in-house when putting together their Considered Design collection, and is said to leverage “Nike’s collected data from more than a decade of evaluation of materials, and the examination of waste footprints in hundreds of apparel products across all sport categories.” “This tool is about making it simple for designers to make the most sustainable choices right at the start of the product creation process.” said Hannah Jones, Vice President of Nike Sustainable Bu… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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IKEA Thanks USA Staff With 12,400 Free Bicycles

Posted on December 13, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on IKEA Thanks USA Staff With 12,400 Free Bicycles

Photo: IKEA via Business Wire IKEA is giving its 12,400 staff, in the USA, an early Holiday present. “We hope this bike will be taken in the spirit of the season while supporting a healthy lifestyle and everyday sustainable transport,” said Mike Ward, IKEA US President. Unlike the 9,000 British employees who, back in 2006, were the beneficiaries of a free folding bike , it looks like American staff have scored a chunkier mountain bike style bicycle. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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With Climate Change Looming, We Are The Ghosts Of Christmas Yet To Come

Posted on December 11, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on With Climate Change Looming, We Are The Ghosts Of Christmas Yet To Come

“The Last of the Spirits, from Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas. With Illustrations by John Leech. London: Chapman & Hall, 1843. First edition. ” Image credit: Wikipedia (copyright expired) – an excerpt. I am not suggesting that Dickens was prescient about climate change, in the fashion of the absurd claims made for Nostradamus. Nor do I think you should literally wear a hoodie (the modern equivalent of Grim Reaper… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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With Climate Change Looming, We Are The Ghosts Of Christmas Yet To Come

Posted on December 11, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on With Climate Change Looming, We Are The Ghosts Of Christmas Yet To Come

“The Last of the Spirits, from Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas. With Illustrations by John Leech. London: Chapman & Hall, 1843. First edition. ” Image credit: Wikipedia (copyright expired) – an excerpt. I am not suggesting that Dickens was prescient about climate change, in the fashion of the absurd claims made for Nostradamus. Nor do I think you should literally wear a hoodie (the modern equivalent of Grim Reaper… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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10 Chic Ways to Flat-Pack Your Holiday with Chrismas Trees, Ornaments, and More

Posted on December 8, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on 10 Chic Ways to Flat-Pack Your Holiday with Chrismas Trees, Ornaments, and More

Photo: Lovi The carbon footprint of the holidays adds up fast — presents , food, travel — to make one scary number. But these chic, flat-pack alternatives to traditional holiday decorations — including design-savvy original trees and gorgeous wreaths and ornaments — will fill your home with seasonal cheer; save on shipping and storage space; and cut back your energy and water consumption. Even better: When you use the same tree every year, you’ll multiply how much money and how many resources you save — while creating new memori… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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EPEAT Gains New Partners to Meet Global Demand for IT Certifications

Posted on December 8, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on EPEAT Gains New Partners to Meet Global Demand for IT Certifications

Photo via laffy4k EPEAT, the organization that certifies electronics based on environmental criteria like recyclability, materials selection, and longevity, is growing by leaps an bounds. About a year and a half ago, the organization expanded their certifications database so that countries across the globe could access the information and make smarter purchasing decisions. Now there’s a new demand to meet for ever more p… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Close That Door–You’re Wasting Energy

Posted on December 7, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Close That Door–You’re Wasting Energy

Photo: Close the Door Here’s an idea that is so obvious it should be a no-brainer: shut the door and save energy. The Close the Door Campaign is asking retailers to conserve energy by keeping their front doors closed. Why do shops all over the place leave their front door wide open? Do they really think that if it’s closed we won’t go in? … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Puma Pounces on Sustainability Award

Posted on November 30, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Puma Pounces on Sustainability Award

Image: Puma A couple of days ago, the sports company Puma picked up the German Sustainability Award 2010, in the category “Most Sustainable Strategy.” Over 560 companies entered in the 2010 competition, so we imagine it was a rather happy Puma CEO and Chief Sustainability Officer who received the award. “I am convinced that it must become a given that every company has to be sustainable and I am grateful that the German Sustainability Award acknowledges sustainable business strategies and hence underpins the imperative for corporations to change their business practices for the better,” said Jochen Zeitz…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Spectrolab is Starting Mass-Production of 39.2% Efficient Concentrating Solar Cell

Posted on November 24, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Spectrolab is Starting Mass-Production of 39.2% Efficient Concentrating Solar Cell

Image: Spectrolab Evolutionary, Not Revolutionary Spectrolab , a subsidiary of Boeing, has announced that it is starting mass-production of a very efficient concentrating solar cell, the C3MJ+ (the datasheet above is for the C3MJ, the “plus” version is a newer, slightly more efficient model). With an efficiency at converting sunlight into electricity of 39.2%, this cell would be the most efficient on the market. “Last year we set a new world record for efficiency with a test cell that peaked at 41.6 percent. We now have entered production with ess… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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After Averting Disaster, the Cape Farewell Expedition Grinds On

Posted on September 24, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on After Averting Disaster, the Cape Farewell Expedition Grinds On

Image courtesy of Cape Farewell. This guest post was written by David Buckland, resident artist and the director of Cape Farewell, as part of the Cape Farewell project . After the excitement of ice entrapment , polar bears, and nullified rescue our Captain has, under Spitsbergan instructions, been more cautious with regard to ice and weather. We have been dancing with ice maps, weather patterns and plain strong head winds. Four times we have tried to go south … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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