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ConocoPhillips Energy Prize Award
Scott Andersen, Mike Graham and team from Smart Product Innovations won the ConocoPhilips Energy Prize for their Eco-Auger developed with the participation of Bresslergroup.The Eco Auger™ was judged...
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Injection Moldable Polystyrene or Polypropylene Replacement
This could be a good one. Mirel P1003 is the injection molding grade of a polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) based resin developed by Metabolix. The resin is sugar based and is degradable in natural soil and...
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Nylon Available With High Recycled Content
It's becoming easier to use more sustainable materials and the DuPont line of Zytel RS® renewably sourced nylon resins is contributing effectively to this trend. In addition to several resins designed...
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Wheat Straw Reinforced Polypropylene
Ford, Canadian researchers, and resin supplier A Schulman have teamed up to create wheat straw reinforced polypropylene. Wheat staw is a food by-product currently available by the millions of tons....
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Greener Packaging Database
Short of an ice cream cone or other pleasure ephemera, packaging has the shortest consumer life-span of all the goods we purchase. Between manufacturing and disposal, packaging is currently hard at...
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Hydro vs. Oxo. Biodegradable Comparisions
The number of environmentally improved polymers continues to grow. The need for responsible material specification presents designers with a new layer of selection decisions. When the performance...
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Top 10 green living myths
Top 10 green living myths from LivingGreen about: Turning off the lights to save CO2, Buy a greener car, Don't overfill the kettle, Use more efficient appliances and more.I appreciated the myth...
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Cooper Union Green Design Building
Well, I have to give a shout out to my Alma mater and their implementation of the first green academic building in Manhattan, NY, located at 41 Cooper Square. I've toured the building and it is...
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Saving Power...by Using Power??
This article on Treehugger.com caught my eye. Designers Lai You Cheng, Liu Kai Ping & Liu Chen Guang have come up with a power saving device, which uses power. Sounds wrong, but let me explain....
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Cardboard Baby Furniture
This is absolutely brilliant. A baby seat made by Paper Tiger (who makes additional disposable furniture from cardboard.) As this article on Treehugger.com suggests, just think about the intelligence...
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ECO-Rating System
EPEAT has been around for a while serving in the capacity of eco-labeling for industrial products. For example, if a government institution wants to purchase a series of low energy computers or the...
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Our CO2 Emissions in Perspective, A Copenhagen Art Installation
United Nations Climate Change Conference which took place in Copenhagen December 7th through 18th of 2009. Most design and sustainability blogs have already covered this and you can find the most...
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Lower Your Refrigeration Costs by Recycling the Cold!
Lifehacker explained how to use cold air from the environment to chill items in your refrigerator, effectively reducing power consumption. Very cool! (no pun intended).It would seem obvious that you...
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Must Use Materials Spec Tool for Designers
Product development professionals have significant influence over how the products we design impact the environment. Many of us have implemented sustainable design processes and strategies but we...
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Sustanaible packaging by PUMA
Do you remember you last shoe buying experience? What did you do with the box and the packaging your shoes came in? Did you by chance throw it away?Yves Behar from Fuse Project, helped Puma develop a...
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ConocoPhillips Energy Prize Award
Scott Andersen, Mike Graham and team from Smart Product Innovations won the ConocoPhilips Energy Prize for their Eco-Auger developed with the participation of Bresslergroup.The Eco Auger™ was judged...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Injection Moldable Polystyrene or Polypropylene Replacement
This could be a good one. Mirel P1003 is the injection molding grade of a polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) based resin developed by Metabolix. The resin is sugar based and is degradable in natural soil and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Nylon Available With High Recycled Content
It's becoming easier to use more sustainable materials and the DuPont line of Zytel RS® renewably sourced nylon resins is contributing effectively to this trend. In addition to several resins designed...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Wheat Straw Reinforced Polypropylene
Ford, Canadian researchers, and resin supplier A Schulman have teamed up to create wheat straw reinforced polypropylene. Wheat staw is a food by-product currently available by the millions of tons....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Greener Packaging Database
Short of an ice cream cone or other pleasure ephemera, packaging has the shortest consumer life-span of all the goods we purchase. Between manufacturing and disposal, packaging is currently hard at...
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