Aiming to make “eco-fashion cool for young people”, Rapanui Clothing produces “organic clothing that is eco-friendly, ethical and sustainable” and claims to be the “first clothing company in the world to establish on page [on-line] traceability for all products.” Founded by brothers Rob and Martin Drake-Knight in early 2008, the company is based in England’s [...]
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Eco-Clothing Company Rapanui Focuses on Product Traceability
August 15th, 2010 
Justin Manger Our Virtual Stock Market Game Has Begun. Can You Beat the Market?
August 13th, 2010 Justin Manger This week we’ve begun a little game/experiment in capitalism. We’ve created a virtual stock competition on MarketWatch.com with a focus on green stocks. See if you’ve got what it takes to tame the market by picking “green stocks” and see how they do the rest of the year. As this contest has a 2nd Green Revolution [...]
Film Award for Response to Devastating Environmental Event Unveiled Just As Gulf of Mexico Well is Capped
July 22nd, 2010 Justin Manger It looks like the oil that has been gushing unabated into the Gulf of Mexico for three months is finally coming to a halt. BP’s latest of many attempts to cap the well with a huge metal box seems to have succeeded. The disaster has been unprecedented and so has the response. Let’s hope the flow [...]
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Tags: Explore.org, Regenerative Economy, Waste 
No Comments »Living City Block: Sustainable Re-development in Denver
June 6th, 2010 Eric Wilson Here at 2nd Green Revolution we come across a lot of stories that demonstrate the exciting possibilities of a sustainable future. In downtown Denver, Colorado a unique experiment is taking shape that may exemplify the type of project that will help fulfill this vision; enter the Living City Block (LCB). The mission of LCB is [...]
Five Friday Facts: How Much We Recycle
June 4th, 2010 Justin Manger What We Recycle (United States) Waste Material Total Amount Amount Recycled Recycling Rate Paper 77.4 million tons 42.9 million tons 56% Plastic 30 million tons 2.1 million tons 7.1% Glass 12.2 million tons 2.8 millions tons 23.1% Aluminum 3.4 million tons 720,000 tons 21.1% ALL WASTE 249.6 million tons 82.9 million tons 33.2% From Washington [...]
Boulder Chips Enters Compostable Bag Field
May 13th, 2010 Eric Wilson As it turns out, SunChips wasn’t the only snack brand to release a compostable bag this year. With minimal fanfare as compared to SunChips, Colorado-based Boulder Canyon Foods also moved to a compostable bag this past Earth Day. Noticeably different than the “loud” bag from SunChips, Boulder Chips’ compostable bag looks and feels the same [...]
Posted in Eric Wilson, Green Products, Recylcing, Sustainability Tags: Colorado, Composting, Offsets, Regenerative Economy No Comments »Recyclable or not? A Primer
April 6th, 2010 Justin Manger Here is a quick primer from a Slate/Washington Post article on some of the tricky questions about what can be recycled and what cannot. First of all, it may be helpful to understand how the paper recycling process works. It goes something like this: When bales of sorted paper arrive at a mill, they’re fed [...]
The 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 [...]
Ecodiscoveries Aims for Effective Green Household Cleaning Products
February 21st, 2010 Justin Manger The household cleaning product industry has given consumers a way to clean just about every type of stain, spill, mold, dirt, and blemish that there is. Many of them work as advertised, resulting in clean shower doors, mold free tile, spotless ovens and sparkling living spaces. The drawback to all this is that many of [...]
Posted in Business, Clean Technology, Green Products, Justin Manger, Recylcing Tags: Emory, Regenerative Economy 2 Comments »Growing the Economy, But at What Cost?
February 15th, 2010 Justin Manger “Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need, but not every man’s greed.” – Ghandi What is growth? If one looks at an organism, growth requires inputs (food/energy, micro-nutrients, water, etc). For the economy to grow, massive inputs are also needed, mostly in the form of energy and materials. Currently, the major difference is that [...]
Posted in 2nd Green, Behavior, Business, Economics, Eric Wilson, Justin Manger Tags: 2nd Green Revolution, Cradle to Cradle, Lifecycle, Regenerative Economy No Comments »
