Autodesk’s second annual Sustainability Summit focuses on a new definition for sustainability and how their partners and customers utilize Autodesk tools to help realize a vision of a better world through sustainable development.

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At the highly anticipated Consumer Electronics Show (CES) taking place in Las Vegas this week, Sprint, who earned the No. 3 spot on Newsweek’s Green Rankings last year, revealed new evaluation criteria for its environmental scorecard. The scorecard is updated annually and is used to guide the design decisions of Sprint’s device manufacturers and vendors to ensure that [...]

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All across America, archaeologists and anthropologists, along with geneticists, linguists, geologists, and some of America’s native peoples, are assembling new data, reassessing older data, and generating new models that shed new light on much of what has been written in our history books to-date about how pre-Columbian Americans lived. This new information provides valuable insight [...]

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Up to 40% of total energy spending in commercial buildings is in lighting.  Controlled lighting can save 40-70% of that energy.  My previous interview with Jeremy Stieglitz of Redwood Systems revealed that networked lighting is possible for new construction, but what about lighting in existing buildings, the so-called retrofit market? In this interview, Danny Yu, [...]

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Bicycling is an inherently sustainable form of transportation: No emissions, minimal materials required to make the vehicle, increased rider fitness, decreased auto traffic. And yet there’s a weak link in this chain: The helmet. Modern day helmets are single use, and unrecyclable when done. In other words, one crash and it’s in the trash. And [...]

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By Ronald C. Weston, AIA, LEED AP The sustainable design and green building movement have made tremendous advances over the past decade to the point that virtually every building project today employs some level of green design.  And yet despite the bar being raised significantly there remains resistance in the public and private sectors to [...]

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Celebrate Earth Day by purging your home, office, and classroom of broken electronics, and make money off of that ewaste. eBay is offering up to $150 for broken iPads and less for phones and MP3 players. Tack on to that free shipping, “responsible recycling,”* and even a $5 gift card and matching donation to Global [...]

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Autodesk’s recent partnership with UK-based Granta Design has the sustainable design world all abuzz. It partnered Autodesk’s world class design software with one of the best databases of sustainability characteristics of input materials. There is a strong and growing awareness that sustainable design can contribute significantly to a sustainable economy. An upcoming event in San [...]

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Notes from Autodesk University The breadth and depth of the technological reach on display at Autodesk University, particularly for a first-timer such as myself, is, for lack of a less hackneyed phrase, overwhelming. But what is important to eventually grasp at such an event is the transformative power of technology to drive behavioral – and [...]

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Autodesk University 2010 is underway. Here’s a chance to receive a free Premier Pass to attend the event online.

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This morning, San Rafael, CA-based Autodesk, Inc. announced a partnership with UK-based Granta Design Ltd.  Granta Design maintains an extensive database on material information technology.  Granta’s software has been used mostly by goliath manufacturing and engineering companies for material selection, substitution and cost optimization in order to design in the context of environmental objectives and [...]

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The trade show industry is second only to the construction industry in the amount of waste it generates. If you have ever attended or exhibited at a trade show, you have seen the amount of waste and energy consumed first hand…it is everywhere. Very little about the trade show industry seems efficient. Though companies need [...]

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The all-electric high-performance Mission One “superbike” from Mission Motors breaks the land speed record for an electric motorcycle at the Bonneville Speedway.

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