Tools to help cities and towns guide green development
It’s one thing for advocates and pundits like yours truly to advocate the greening of cities, towns and suburbs through environmentally responsible revitalization and land development. But it’s quite another for local governments to develop and implement policy instruments that can make that goal easier, rather than harder, to achieve. In many places, as I’ve written before, it’s not ...
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Biomimicry 3.8: What Would You Ask Nature
[Source: Kathy Zarsky] Design leader Robert Suarez and Sustainability Strategist Kathy Zarsky have been exploring this question through their studies in biomimicry with Biomimcry 3.8, the world-leading organization ...
Creating a Better Graphic Design Competition
“Clever work wins awards; smart work wins clients.” – Eric Karjuouto, founder, SmashLab I recently had the distinct pleasure to judge two competitions that focused on printed and digital design that was ...
How Organic Valley Built a Green Brand with Guerrilla Marketing
CROPP, now the largest cooperative for organic farmers in the United States, planted its stakes 24 years ago during an agriculture recession that drove thousands ...
How eBay Uses its Website to Drive Sustainability and Innovation
Last week, we unveiled a new and improved green.ebay.com that we hope will serve as a one-stop destination for all things green at eBay. With the re-launch of ...
Design, Research, Impact: URBANlab at CCA
Reposted from Design Observer: Places Journal – Interview: Ila Berman & Mona El Khafif Project presentation by Alexa Getting and Lauren Tichy, CitySpaceShare studio, URBANlab. [Photo by Jaime Austin] As part ...
What You Don’t Know About Bio Packaging
Let's get one thing straight, I think biodegradable packaging is a very good thing. I encourage large companies like Coca-Cola to push for more environmentally safe plant-based plastics in ...
Print versus Digital: The Scuffle in the Studio
(Co-authored by Eric Benson and Yvette Perullo) Which is greener, a printed or digital piece? Naturally it depends on who is being asked. Talk to a paper manufacturer and he will ...
GreenBlue Outlines Vision for Closing the Loop on Packaging
What would it take for California and the U.S. to create a closed loop system, where all used packaging materials were collected and reprocessed for use in ...
Digital Farm Collective
Reposted from Design Observer: Places Journal - by Matthew Moore Gallery: Matthew Moore Time lapse of the growth of a black-seeded Simpson head lettuce. My family began farming 35 miles northwest of ...
Defining Sustainability for Designers
Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. —The Brundtland Report, 1987 This is the most widely ...
GM to Launch Industry’s First Eco-Label for Cars
In an industry first, General Motors' Chevy brand has created a green label for its cars and will roll out the sticker bearing environmental data next ...
The Mino Garden Gnome
Reposted from Core77's article: "Things That Look Like Other Things: "Mino" by Giovanni Tomasini" Young Italian designer Giovanni Tomasini is pleased to present his latest project, the "Mino" garden ...
3 Must-Have Apps for a Sustainable 2012
2012 is not going to be easy. Against a backdrop of economic stagnation in the west, civil society unrest in all sorts of places, and continued volatility ...
Beverage Cans Made From Paperboard
In June last year, I wrote that “the revolution in the bottling industry is on”. It seems to be working out that way, as recently we have seen some very ...
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