On occasion we get emails from various people, groups, companies, or organizations informing us of news, products, or innovations in the second green revolution. Some of these emails come across as less than legitimate, some are difficult to determine, and others appear to be extremely unique, valuable messages about worthwhile topics. Today’s post falls somewhere [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Cradle to Cradle’
Electrolux Announces Their “Vac from the Sea” Project
June 27th, 2010 
Eric Wilson 
Posted in Eric Wilson, Green Products, Recylcing 
Tags: Biomimicry, Cradle to Cradle, Plastic, Waste 
View CommentsFirst Thoughts on Natural Capitalism
June 14th, 2010 Eric Wilson Usually I skip the preface and acknowledgments in a book. With the decade old Natural Capitalism from Paul Hawken (author of The Ecology of Commerce), Amory Lovins, and Hunter Lovins, co-founders of Rocky Mountain Institute in Colorado, I felt it was going to provide valuable background and history. In reading these sections I was struck [...]
Run Over to Gazelle to Get Cash for Your Old Electronic Gadgets
April 20th, 2010 Justin Manger We write a lot about the the need to close the loop in consumerism, go cradle-to-cradle, and just buy less stuff. In the modern world, however, it isn’t always so easy. Technology improves so quickly that the top of the line cellphone or laptop you bought just two years ago now seems outdated. The newest [...]
Posted in Behavior, Business, Conservation, Recylcing, Sustainability Tags: Cradle to Cradle View CommentsWaste Farmers: Making Money From Other People’s Trash
March 24th, 2010 Eric Wilson Subscribing to the Cradle to Cradle philosophy, Denver based Waste Farmers works with metro area restaurants to decrease the matter they send to the landfill. With a national client list that includes Denver-based Chipotle as well as independent schools in the area, Waste Farmers picks up organic material from clients and composts the waste. According [...]
Posted in Business, Eric Wilson, Green Economy, Recylcing, Sustainability Tags: Colorado, Composting, Cradle to Cradle, Denver, Zero Waste View CommentsThe Footprint Chronicles: Where Has Your Jacket Been?
February 25th, 2010 Eric Wilson Earlier this month on Public Radio International’s daily program The World, reporter Murray Carpenter highlighted “some of the new technologies that help consumers trace the global journey of their purchases and calculate their environmental cost.” If companies are going to argue their products are truly green, there needs to be independent verification. Greenwashing (making specious [...]
