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Back to the future with nature's own construction materials? - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 20 Oct 15
     
    Europe's construction industry has a crucial role in cutting carbon emissions and energy consumption. But getting companies to ditch traditional building materials for greener, bio-based alternatives remains an uphill struggle. They are more costly and questions remain over safety, reliability and durability The concept of building with bio materials is nothing new - mud and grass has been used in some countries for centuries.
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VF Goes "Fur Free" with New Animal Derived Materials Policy - 1 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 25 May 17
     
    VF Corporation adopted its first Animal Derived Materials Policy, which sets guidelines for the company to eliminate the use of fur, angora, and exotic leather in all VF brand products. The company developed the policy in partnership with The Humane Society of the United States and Humane Society International.
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City Bans Demolitions to Cut Construction Waste · Environmental Leader · Envi... - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 27 Jul 16
     
    The Portland, Oregon, city council yesterday passed a law banning the demolition of homes build on or before 1916. The law requires old homes to instead be deconstructed, allowing builders to salvage and reuse lumber and other materials. The city expects the new deconstruction policy will divert 8 million pounds (4,000 tons) of materials for reuse annually.
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Thread™ Transforms Bottles and Reclaimed Cotton into T-Shirt Material - Press... - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 16 Jun 16
     
    Thread™, the leader in responsible textile and fabric innovation, has developed a jersey material made entirely of recycled bottles from the developing world and reclaimed American cotton.
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Apple's 2014 Supplier Responsibility Report Earns Greenpeace Praise On Conflict Materia... - 0 views

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  • and more transparency about which suppliers and facilities provide its raw metals and materials, including lists of which have been verified as conflict free and which are still in need of future verification
  • Apple has released its annual Supplier Responsibility report, detailing its monitoring of supply partner labor practices, compliance with regulations and Apple’s standards of business, the environmental impact of its product components and more. Apple highlighted its ongoing education investments in the report, detailing the growth in its worker rights and skills training up top.
  • Adriana Trujillo on 14 Feb 14
     
    Apple has released its annual Supplier Responsibility report, detailing its monitoring of supply partner labor practices, compliance with regulations and Apple's standards of business, the environmental impact of its product components and more. Apple highlighted its ongoing education investments in the report, detailing the growth in its worker rights and skills training up top.
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General Mills commits to sustainable sourcing of half its raw materials by 2020 | Suppl... - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 03 Oct 13
     
    Cereals business General Mills has committed to sustainably source 100% of its top ten priority ingredients by 2020. And these ingredients represent 50% of the company's total raw material purchases.
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IBM Stumbles Across New Class of Industrial Polymers That Could Revolutionize Manufactu... - 1 views

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  • Del Birmingham on 23 May 14
     
    Scientists from IBM Research say they have accidentally discovered a new class of polymer materials that could deliver cheaper, lighter, stronger and recyclable materials ideal for electronics, aerospace, airline and automotive industries.
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Eileen Fisher, H&M, Kering Are Latest Brands to Join Cradle to Cradle's Fashion Positiv... - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 20 Jun 17
     
    Five fashion companies -- Eileen Fisher, H&M, Kering, Zero + Maria Cornejo and Loomstate -- now belong to the Fashion Positive PLUS initiative and will help develop "circular solutions" for clothing materials that can be used and reused. The goal of the Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute's initiative is to improve commonly used materials, including dyes and yarns, so they have positive health impacts while also promoting change in the industry.
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Chemical Watch | News Item | US toy company reveals safer materials strategy - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 20 Jun 17
     
    US toy firm Radio Flyer has revealed its safer material strategy in a webinar this week on the Chemical Footprint Project (CFP).
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What is Nike Flyleather? - Nike News - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 05 Oct 17
     
    Nike introduced Flyleather, a new material made with at least 50% recycled natural leather fiber. The material requires 90% less water to produce and has an 80% lower carbon footprint, compared to traditional leather manufacturing
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How to Clean Water With Old Coffee Grounds | Innovation | Smithsonian - 0 views

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  • amandasjohnston on 14 Oct 16
     
    The team, at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) in Genoa, is using coffee grounds to clean water, turning the grounds into a foam that can remove heavy metals like mercury. "We actually take a waste and give it a second life," says materials scientist Despina Fragouli. Her team took spent coffee grounds from IIT's cafeteria, dried and ground them to make the particles smaller. They then mixed the grounds with some silicon and sugar. Once hardened, they dipped it in water to melt away the sugar, which leaves behind a foam-like material.
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How C&A created the world's first Cradle to Cradle T-shirt | GreenBiz - 0 views

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  • Del Birmingham on 27 Sep 17
     
    In June, C&A, the international Dutch chain of retail clothing stores, launched a line of T-shirts certified to the Cradle to Cradle standard, meaning that they were designed and manufactured in a way that is benign to the environment and human health, and whose materials can be recirculated safely back into industrial materials or composted into the soil.
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adidas NEWS STREAM : Messi's Cleats today, recycled into yours tommorow - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 14 Oct 15
     
    Adidas launched its "Sports Infinity" research project, which aims to combine components from old sporting goods with excess materials from other industries to create new products. The goal of the research project is to provide soccer players with adhesive-free, recyclable, and zero-waste sporting goods.
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Inside Interface's bold new mission to achieve 'Climate Take Back' | GreenBiz - 0 views

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  • Interface reconstituted its Dream Team, “a collection of experts and friends who have joined with me to remake Interface into a leader of sustainability,” as Anderson wrote in the company’s 1997 sustainability report.The original team included Sierra Club executive director David Brower; Buckminster Fuller devotee Bill Browning, then with the Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI); community and social activist Bernadette Cozart; author and entrepreneur Hawken; Amory Lovins, RMI co-founder and chief scientist; L. Hunter Lovins, RMI’s other co-founder; architect and designer William McDonough; John Picard, a pioneering consultant in green building and sustainability; Jonathan Porritt, co-founder of Forum for the Future; Daniel Quinn, author of Ishmael; Karl-Henrik Robèrt, founder of The Natural Step, a sustainability framework; and Walter Stahel a resource efficiency expert. (Additional members would be added over the years, including Biomimicry author Janine Benyus.)
  • One example is Net-Works. Launched in 2012, it helps turn discarded fishing nets into the raw materials for nylon carpeting in some of the world’s most impoverished communities.
  • But Ray Anderson’s sustainability vision was always about more than just a “green manufacturing plant.” He wanted Interface to be a shining example, an ideal to which other companies could aspire, a test bed for new ideas that stood to upend how business is done — and, not incidentally, an opportunity to stand above the crowd in the world of commercial flooring.Climate Take Back is the noise the company wanted to make.
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  • The mission is that we will demonstrate that we can reverse the impact of climate change by bringing carbon home,” says COO Gould, who is expected to ascend to the company’s CEO role next year, with the current CEO, Hendrix, remaining chairman. “We want to be able to scale that to the point where it actually does reverse the amount of carbon in the atmosphere.”
  • There’s a small but growing movement to use carbon dioxide molecules to build things — plastics and other materials, for example — thereby bringing it “home” to earth as a beneficial ingredient, as opposed to a climate-warming gas in the atmosphere.Interface’s commitment to “bring carbon home and reverse climate change” is a prime example how the company intends to move from “doing less bad” to “doing more good” — in this case, by not merely reducing the company’s contribution to climate change, but actually working to solve the climate crisis.
  • tansfield believes Interface is in a similar position now. “We know now what the biggest issues of our generation — and frankly, our children's generation — are, and that's climate change, poverty and inequality on a planetary scale, on a species scale. We are bold and brave enough, as we did in '94, to stand up there and say, ‘If not us, who? And if not now, when?’”
  • The notion is something Benyus has been talking about, and working on, for a while: to build human development that functions like the ecosystem it replaces. That means providing such ecosystem services to its surroundings as water storage and purification, carbon sequestration, nitrogen cycling, temperature cooling and wildlife habitat. And do so at the same levels as were once provided before humans came along.
  • Specifically, Climate Take Back includes four key commitments:We will bring carbon home and reverse climate change.We will create supply chains that benefit all life.We will make factories that are like forests.We will transform dispersed materials into products and goodness.
  • Del Birmingham on 06 Jun 16
     
    "Climate Take Back," as the new mission has been named, is the successor to Mission Zero, the name given to a vision articulated in 1997 that, for most outside the company, seemed audacious at the time: "To be the first company that, by its deeds, shows the entire industrial world what sustainability is in all its dimensions: People, process, product, place and profits - by 2020 - and in doing so we will become restorative through the power of influence."
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Patagonia's Next Jacket Will Be Made of Spider Silk | Outside Online - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 16 Jun 16
     
    The material is ultra tough, durable, and lightweight, and it may be the future of outdoor apparel if Patagonia and a California startup have their way.
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Greenbuild 2013: Focus sharpens on health and transparency | GreenBiz.com - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 19 Nov 13
     
    At this years, annual Greenbuild, the U.S. Green Building Council's gathering dedicated to green bulding in the world, one this was clear. The momentum around materials transparency and health in tthe built environment is becoming more important then ever.
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This Sweatshirt Is Designed To Last For The Rest Of Your Life | Co.Exist | ideas + impact - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 20 Jul 15
     
    The 30-Year Sweatshirt project aims to counter "built-in obsolescence among major fashion retailers" by offering apparel that's guaranteed to last at least three decades, says founder Tom Cridland. Investing in better materials and manufacturing also allows shoppers to avoid the ethical problems that come with cheap, disposable fashion, Cridland says. 
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Coalition Urges Kraft Foods to Reduce Packaged Waste · Environmental Manageme... - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 14 Aug 14
     
    A coalition of more than 20 public interest groups, sent a letter pressuring Kraft Foods to reduce its packaging waste. The group, calling themselves the Make It, Take It campaign, has asked Kraft to develop plans to design packaging from safe, sustainable materials using recycled content, while minimizing unnecessary packaging.
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Basel Action Network (BAN) : Developing Countries Rally to Prevent Industry Efforts to ... - 0 views

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  • repairable electronic waste to be exempt from the international Basel Convention hazardous waste trade control procedures.
  • developing countries cannot control the junk electronic computers, faxes, printers and TVs flooding into their countries from North America and Europe
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  • Transboundary Movement of e-Waste in Geneva
  • all exports of hazardous electronic waste be notified to importing countries, and receive their consent prior to shipment.  
  • without lifting the established hazardous waste trade controls, reuse of used equipment would be inhibited
  • if manufacturers would make efforts to create non-toxic components, readily upgradable hardware and longer-lived products.
  • Adriana Trujillo on 20 Jun 13
     
    Developing coutnries are trying to defeat a policy that would require knowledge and consent to hazardous waste material being shipped into that country
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