posted 25 August 2010 by shaun
How often do you say to yourself about a brief, a trip or a meeting, ‘what a total waste of time’? Maddeningly often I suspect. Read more by James Cooper.
posted 01 June 2010 by shaun
Cradle-to-Cradle design is going into the public domain and worldwide with the launch of the Green Products Innovation Institute (GPII), a nonprofit that will develop standards for individual products, intended to accelerate the transition to safer materials and advance California's Green Chemistry Initiative. Read more in an original post by Jonathan Bardelline.
posted 19 November 2009 by shaun
TransFair USA, is the only third-party certifier of Fair Trade Certified products in the United States, will begin certifying cotton clothing, bed and bath products for Fair Trade Certification in 2010.
posted 26 August 2009 by shaun
Elinor Averyt is the founder of a proposed eco-labeling program, ‘Labeling Ecologically Approved Fabrics™ ’ (L.E.A.F.) which aims to eliminate confusion in the US market around environmental and social labeling for apparel and other textile products. The three month public review process for LEAF is launching this week, during which industry stakeholders and the general public are being invited to participate in a collaborative development process. Ms. Averyt made some time for an exclusive Q&A with Sustainable Life Media.
posted 29 July 2009 by shaun
posted 27 July 2009 by shaun
Your company has been progressing nicely up the sustainability curve from compliance to cost savings. The next logical step is reputation and revenue generation, and it's here that many sustainability pros hit a roadblock.
posted 22 July 2009 by shaun
posted 22 July 2009 by shaun

Miller Zell, a retail and strategy design firm, finds that lower income shoppers are driving the sustainable product marketplace, not the higher income, lifestyle consumers many think of as supporting sustainability.
posted 11 April 2009 by shaun
posted 03 April 2009 by shaun
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