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Sprint Sets the Bar for Sustainable Phone Design
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 [...]
Sustainable America Part 1: Ancient Architecture and Town Planning
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 [...]
Video Interview: Danny Yu, CEO of Daintree Networks
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, [...]
The Sustainable, Durable Solution to Bike Helmet Safety: Cardboard?!
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 [...]
Embracing the Economic Case for Sustainable Design
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 [...]
Fight E-waste, Make Money this Earth Day
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 [...]
CompostModern 2011: Design Influencing Consumption Behaviors
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 [...]
Tech Driving Behavioral Change: Talking with Autodesk U’s Emma Stewart
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 [...]
On the Ground at Autodesk University
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Autodesk Announces Partnership with UK-based Granta Design: HUGE Implications for Green Design
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 [...]
San Diego Convention Center: Committed to Green Events
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 [...]
Mission Motors Keeps Moving: All-Electric Bike Tops 150MPH
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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Webinar: Feb 17Greening Stonyfield Farm: As a consultant with Stonyfield Farm for the past 12 years, Switzer Fellow Tim Greiner will discuss efforts to broaden and deepen sustainability within the company. He will discuss the company's efforts to track its environmental impacts, barriers the company had to overcome.Webinar: Feb 29Product Scorecards for Sustainability: Product scorecards that detail and evaluate environmental and sustainability aspects of products are increasingly adopted by leading companies. This webinar covers the best practices in this area and a case study by Seventh Generation.NY: Mar 19-20Wall Street Green: The longest running and most comprehensive environmental market event in the industry. The Wall Street Green Summit covers cutting edge content, industry developments and features the practitioners and the leaders of tomorrow. Bay Area: Mar 22-23GRI Certified Training: Demand for sustainability experts is growing rapidly as companies look for proven professionals. For companies, GRI trained employees mean faster implementations and better use of the GRI Sustainability Reporting Framework. Join our partner ISOS group for this two day session. Early bird discounts apply!SF: Mar 26-28Cleantech Forum San Francisco: The 2012 Cleantech Forum San Francisco will mark the 10th anniversary of Cleantech Forums, the annual gathering of the global clean technology innovation community. Our theme this year is “The Power of Global Partnerships,” an exploration of how strategic relationships are playing an ever more important role in the future of clean technology. For a $300 Discount use code "VIPofTriplePundit " More Info.SF: April 10-12 Navigating the American Carbon World: The must-attend event for professionals in the carbon landscape. Over the past decade, NACW has consistently provided informative content, thoughtful discussions and outstanding opportunities for collaboration.Have your event listed here.
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