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The Five Stages of Adopting Corporate Sustainability

The Five Stages of Adopting Corporate Sustainability
Adopting sustainability as a goal now will help corporations develop business models that will leave competitors scrambling to catch up, according to a new report from ...

Green Business 2008 – Environmental Leader’s Most Popular Stories

Green Business 2008 – Environmental Leader’s Most Popular Stories
With 2008 just out the door, it's a good time to look back at the green business issues and news items popular with top sustainability executives. Here are Environmental Leader's top green business stories for ...

Biomimicry Design Database AskNature.org Launched

Biomimicry Design Database AskNature.org Launched
Autodesk is sponsoring the Biomimicry Institute's AskNature.org, a biomimicry database that features biology-inspired design strategies. The free online library is organized by function and uses illustration to explain the designs. For ...

Corporations Should Take Eco-Strategies To The Next Level

Corporations Should Take Eco-Strategies To The Next Level
Holly Kaufman, founder and president of Environment & Enterprise Strategies, writes in the EcoInnovator that companies need to take their corporate eco-strategy to the next level. Kaufman says U.S. corporate sustainability does ...

Interface VP Discusses Biomimicry And Design

Interface VP Discusses Biomimicry And Design
John Bradford, VP of operations and R&D for Interface, discusses why Interface started mimicking nature to design eco-friendly products, how to turn concepts into design and offers tips on product innovation through biomimicry. ...

12 sustainable design ideas from nature

12 sustainable design ideas from nature
Janine Benyus provides examples of biomimicry -- the way humans mimic nature in the products we build and the systems we implement. And because the champion adapters in the natural world are, by definition, those ...

Nature Provides Recipe For Sustainable Manufacturing

Nature Provides Recipe For Sustainable Manufacturing
By studying the Earth's biosphere, managers can learn how to build ecologically friendly products that reduce manufacturing costs, Gregory Unruh writes in the Dallas Morning News. To make recycling easier, ...

Designers Turn To Nature For Inspiration

Designers Turn To Nature For Inspiration
Biomimicry, design inspired by nature, is becoming a core sustainability strategy for companies looking for ways to cut their ecological footprints, Business Week reports. Janine Benyus, who divides her time between the ...

A Roadmap to Sustainability

A Roadmap to Sustainability
The path to sustainability involves two cycles that lead to continuous, sustainable improvement while also having a positive effect on a company’s bottom line, according to an article in CRO Magazine by Susan Graff, ...

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