Celsias today highlighted companies that collect waste products and use them to create energy or useful goods through methods that are carbon neutral.
As one of the entrepreneurs quoted in the article notes, “Nature doesn’t make any waste.” When we redesign our processes in a thoughtful way, we can move society closer to the standard that [...]

Even though “reduce” and “reuse” come first in the expression “reduce, reuse, recycle,” they often seem to get short shrift compared to efforts to promote recycling. Fortunately, there are ways to encourage reuse, at least one of which has become extremely popular recently. Besides, shrift isn’t everything.
Here’s a quick look at some ways in which [...]

Products that are identified chiefly as green, organic, or locally produced have sometimes risked falling into what one might call the LOHAS Trap. To the extent that LOHAS, an acronym for Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability, is regarded as a relatively affluent, well-educated market segment, products that are aimed at that segment are likely to [...]

On Sunday, I had the good fortune of seeing a documentary called A Convenient Truth: Urban Solutions from Curitiba, Brazil, which was released in 2007. It was shown as part of a film and discussion series entitled Positive Films for a Positive Future at the public library in Albany, California, which I find to [...]