California Tightens Rules on Emissions

The Washington Post reports that California’s legislature approved the broadest restrictions on carbon dioxide emissions in the nation yesterday.  The California bill requires a 25 percent cut in carbon dioxide pollution produced within the state’s borders by 2020 in order to bring the total down to 1990 levels.  It will set up a cap-and-trade program …

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Engineers Race to Steal Nature’s Secrets

In a recent article in The Guardian, John Vidal highlights a new generation of small green companies emerging with radical but proven ideas to revolutionize engineering.  The article discusses giant wind turbines based on a seed, and a desalination plant that mimics a beetle, identifying the following: An aero-generator turbine, now being laboratory tested before …

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Subaru and the Zero-landfill Factory

Ford’s "Model T" revolutionized output efficiencies in the manufacturing processes of the Industrial Revolution.  Presently, another car company may help to redefine the way we make things, measured with a more encompassing "output" co-efficient.  Subaru of Indiana Automotive’s manufacturing (SIA) plant is recreating the way that cars are manufactured.  The plant is so efficient that …

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Sustainability – At the tipping point?

In the February volume of New Bottom Line Gil Friend, founder, president & CEO of Natural Logic Inc, describes 2005 as the "tipping point for ‘sustainability,’" highlighting several examples of growing momentum in 2005 including: General Electric’s Ecomagination announcement Boeing announced that its new 787 jetliner (coming in 2008) will be 20% more efficient than …

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Greenbuild 2006 is coming to Denver

Everything About Green Building, Under One Roof. Greenbuild is the annual meeting place for the green building industry. For three days in Denver, thousands of green building industry professionals will come together to learn about the latest advancements in green building design, construction, project financing and building management. When: November 15-17, 2006 Where: The Colorado …

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Think Green

At The Inspired Economy it is our hope that as companies begin to see profit attached to sustainable business practices, innovation will follow.  This article in Entrepreneur discusses how entrepreneurs are turning environmental problems into opportunities.

What is Natural Capitalism?

Developed by Paul Hawken, founder of the popular gardening store Smith and Hawken, Hunter Lovins, and Rocky Mountain Institute CEO Amory B. Lovins, Natural Capitalism is our obvious inspiration and a new business model that synergizes four major elements for the new Industrial Revolution: 1.  Radically increase the productivity of resource use. Through fundamental changes …

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Eco-friendly Builders Starting to Grow

David Roeder, The Chicago Sun Times, highlights the growing number of developers and commercial projects "going green": In Chicago office development, "going green" has a double meaning. It’s about environmental friendliness, yes, but especially the color of money. Builders of offices have discovered that with a little thought and upfront expense, their structures can get …

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