On October 13, Gap introduced Gap (PRODUCT) REDTM – a new, limited collection of clothing and accessories for men and women designed to help eliminate AIDS in Africa. As part of Gap’s global partnership with (PRODUCT) RED, half of the profits from sales of the Gap (PRODUCT) RED Collection will go to The Global Fund […]
Cradle to Cradle Design is a fundamental conceptual shift away from the flawed system design of the Industrial Revolution. Instead of designing products and systems based on the "take-make-waste" model of the last century (‘cradle to grave’), MBDC’s Cradle to Cradle Design paradigm is powering the Next Industrial Revolution, in which products and services are
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The Green Campus Loan Fund(GCLF) provides interest-free capital for high performance campus design, operations, maintenance and occupant behavior projects. The GCLF has financed a new energy-efficiency program in Harvard-managed buildings that has University real estate managers smiling at savings of more than $700,000 annually. As the Harvard Gazette reports, "Larry McNeil, senior facilities engineer with
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The Habitat ReUse Center Deconstruction Program salvages good and usable building materials from residential homes that are being demolished. At a competitive fee, their staff and volunteer "Decon Crew" will come on site and perform strip outs. This reduces the disposal of materials into the landfill. It provides materials for renovation and other small scale
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The Global Footprint Network has developed an interesting new tool that will help pave the way for a sustainable economy, "The Ecological Footprint", a resource management tool that measures how much land and water area a human population requires to produce the resources it consumes and to absorb its wastes under prevailing technology. This technology
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We profile many technologies that have the potential to change the world, but admittedly, many of those have their greatest impact on those of us living in industrialized nations. In a recent article in Stanford Social Innovation Review, John Voelcker, outlines 10 social entrepreneurs or organizations working to solve many of the problems faced by
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The New York Times reports that the founders of Google, the popular search engine company, have set up an interesting new philanthropy, google.org,with a focus on tackling poverty, disease and global warming. Unlike most charities, this one will be for-profit. For-profit status will grant them the capability to fund start-up companies, form partnerships with venture
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Idealist, a project of Action Without Borders, is a site with 56,000 nonprofit and community organizations in 165 countries, which you can search or browse by name, location, or mission. Organizations can post job openings, volunteer opportunities, events, internships, campaigns, and resources in the knowledge that these postings will be seen by over 387,000 eager
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Fundable.org has created a unique service for fundraising. The service works like this: 1. One person creates a Fundable page to collect $1000 from a group of people. 2. Each person in the group enters credit card or PayPal information as a pledge (but doe NOT pay any money). 3. Once all pledges add up
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It is fair to say that the US economy is inefficient, with an absurdly small amount of input materials actually ending up in products. As Janine Benyus, author of Biomimicry, explains, part of the solution for these inefficiencies may begin with a "conscious emulation of life’s genius." She points out that spiders make silk, as
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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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