When you’re shopping for clothes, do you ever look at the price tag and think,  Sweet mother! Is this thing made of spun gold? What could possibly justify this price? Well one fashion retailer,  HONEST BY , is trying to bring the hidden infrastructure behind fashion costs to the forefront with a shocking amount of transparency. You’ll never [...]

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 their packaging. I get excited to see take-out restaurants offer biodegradable cutlery. But I’m also aware that our current system is not setup for biodegradable packaging. [...]

Think websites and data don’t use water? Think again. Waste is usually associated with tangible things, but the data cloud is not as intangible as we think. In fact large data farms like Amazon’s blow through an estimated 360,000 gallons of water a day just to keep things cool. Most people know that server farms are energy [...]

The other day I listened to a fantastic webinar on Packaging Sustainability from the  2 DEGREES NETWORK featuring Katherine O’Dea of  GREEN BLUE . Among her many statistics, she laid out how different companies in her survey measure sustainable packaging. The list she gave provides a great checklist for other companies attempting to reduce their impact. So here’s [...]