Tag: Consumerism - Page 13
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Finding Profits in the Landfill: RecycleMatch at Poptech 2010 (Video)
As we all know, thousands of landfills around the countries are teeming with literally tons of perfectly good raw materials and otherwise usable trash. And in an era of increasing resource scarcity,
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How On-Demand 3D Printing Could Cut Waste, Increase Efficiency (Video)
There are a lot of great ideas floating around Poptech this year -- I've already covered plenty of them. But I also wanted to highlight something that isn't strictly or necessarily green, yet that could end up having some interesting implications on
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McDonald's To Offer Fast-Food "McWeddings" in Hong Kong
If soaring wedding costs have you wondering how you can afford it all (and yet, you couldn't be bothered with the effort to put on a more eco-conscious wedding) then McDonald's may have the answer for you.
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Access is the New Ownership: Poptech 2010
One of my favorite ideas to crop up at Poptech -- a conference that's full of them -- is Lisa Gansky's concept of the Mesh: Or, how business is moving away from models of ownership and towards that of access. The rise of
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BP Says Staff Bonuses Now to be Based on Safety Performance
BP is rearranging its bonus structure so that 4th quarter payments are given out in accordance to "excellent safety and compliance standards" and to those who reduce "operational risks". It's a PR stunt designed to publicly
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Roo Rogers on the Rise of Collaborative Consumption (Podcast)
Photo credit: Andrew Zuckerman "The great success of hyper-consumption in the 20th century was persuading consumers that sharing is somehow akin to being either a hippie or a communist," says Roo Rogers. "The 21st century is about realizing that sharing
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Overconsumption in Rich Nations Leading Humanity From a Living Planet to a Dead One
The latest installment of the biennial Living Planet Report, produced by WWF in collaboration with the Zoological Society of London and the Global Footprint Network, has been released; and as you might expect
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KFC Double Down Gets Past Border Security and Food Police, Comes To Canada
The commenters in our posts following the trial and introduction of the Double Down pointed out that a) it's a free country and b) at 550 calories there are a lot worse things out there. (The Washington Post claimed "it's almost health food") Now it is
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For Walmart Mexico, Sustainability Is a Group Effort
Five years ago, Walmart began efforts to become a more sustainable company, not
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US Home Energy Efficiency Improved Since 1970, So Why Are The Bills The Same?
We've come a long way, baby. Maybe in energy efficiency of products, but not in reducing our energy use. A new study shows that despite our advances in technology for appliances from refrigerators to
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Celebrating Green Consumer Day in Style
Yesterday was annual Green Consumer Day, a day intended to build awareness around how even the smallest actions we take as individuals can help—or harm—the planet. To commemorate the occasion, we rounded up a
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Can Capitalism be Harnessed to Save the World?
The Clinton Global Initiative is a fascinating, often-perplexing, headline-dominating event. The driving idea is that it creates a forum to encourage businesses to partner with governments and nonprofits to do various good works around
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UK Carbon Emissions From Shipping Six Times Higher Than Reported: New Study
There've been lots of attempt to calculate the true climate change cost of globalized shipping of goods on a nation-by-nation basis, with divergent results based upon where the boundaries are drawn. A new
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eBay Says Small, Online Retail Beats Brick-and-Mortar On Carbon Footprint & Calculates By How Much
With a new debate ongoing on whether the touted environmental benefits of telecommuting are true, here's a related tangent to consider: A new white paper done by Cooler at the behest of eBay attempts to quantify the
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1 in 10 Americans Own an e-Reader, and Read More Than The Rest of Us
According to a new poll byHarris Interactive, Americans are latching on to e-readers in a big way. Nearly 1 in 10 of us (8%) use an e-reader device, and 12% of us plan to buy one in the next year.
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How to Turn Local Water Conservation into Good Business (Video)
At what may have been the most interesting session of the second day of this year's Clinton Global Initiative -- a discussion with leaders from big business and nonprofit orgs on how to find market solutions for protecting the environment -- Dr.
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Wal-Mart Senior VP Chokes Up Talking Sustainability (Video)
Curveballs aplenty at the special session "Market-based Solutions for Protecting the Environment" at the 2010 Clinton Global Initiative. The panel, which included Matt Kistler, the Senior Vice President of Marketing Wal-Mart and Dr. Sanjayan, the lead
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What's Mine is Yours - The Rise of Collaborative Consumption (Book review)
"Barter, Swap, or Pass on this Book." These are the first words you see on opening What's Mine is Yours - The Rise of Collaborative Consumption. Printed on the inner jacket of the book, in the style of a
