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New Soap, Old Bottle. Detergents now come in a Heineken, Coke or Dr. Pepper...
Researching innovative packaging solutions the other day, I stumbled on New Soap, Old Bottle. Similar to this green way of drinking (old bottles, fresh wine), Scott in the States sells new liquid soap...
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The Mesh Explains Why the Present and Future of Business is Sharing (Book...
Lisa Gansky sees a new emerging business model emerging. One she has dubbed, The Mesh. "... one in which consumers have more choices, more tools, more information, and more power to guide those...
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Green Overload: 5 Green Products We Don't Need More of
At TreeHugger, it seems every week there's a press release for a new line of reusable bags or organic body care.
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Any ideas for a more sustainable mobile telecom industry? (Video)
Here's a challenge for the new year: Help co-design solutions for mobile phones to improve sustainability. Imagine a phone that does not need to be charged, one that measures the drinking water...
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Beware Excess Capacity - the Guest Bedroom as Enemy of Sustainability
With the holidays over, many of us are returning from visits with family and friends. And while some of us will have crashed on couches, camped on the floor, or taken over our uncle's
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Shop for Good Ideas: The Unreasonable Institute Finalist Marketplace is Open
The Unreasonable Institute needs your help: the Boulder-based program is down to 45 finalists, but relies on the public to choose the 25 fellows who actually make it into the fellowship.
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Barcelona Gives Away 'Olipots' To Promote Kitchen Oil Recycling
The mediterranean cuisine is known to be one of the healthiest, and yet, Spaniards like their fried tapas or churros every now and then. In 2010 the recycling centers, called 'Green Points', collected...
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Plug In! First Electric Motorcycle Charging Stations in Barcelona
The other day, coming back from the beach, I saw some strange looking parking icons painted on the street; motorbikes with a plug! And indeed it seems to be happening now, Barcelona has launched its...
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Worn Again Equip Eurostar Staff With Upcycled Bags Made From Their Old Uniforms
Good news today as another sustainable design concept becomes reality. Upcycling company Worn Again have equipped 250 Eurostar train managers with some rather smart bags made from old staff uniforms....
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P2P Car Sharing Has Just Launched in Spain, an Interview with SocialCar
After car sharing services like ZipCar or BMW's New Car Share that lets you pick up and drop a car anywhere you want, it is no surprise that Person to Person car sharing is growing too. This works a...
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Naked Value. 6 Things Every Business Leader Needs to Know About Resources,...
A must-read book for business leaders. Naked value is the ultimate value a product delivers to customers, or the benefits that remain when a product is stripped of most of the energy and material...
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Foroba Yelen, a Portable LED Street Light, Locally Made in Rural Mali (Photos)
FOROBA YELEN is the name given by villagers in Mali to the lighting prototype following an anthropologic study. A shared technology to improve work, education and rituals.
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Doing Away With Disposable Packaging
Go Box founder Laura Weiss has worked hard to make Portland (foodie paradise) just a little more sustainable, waste wise, with her system of reusable to go containers.
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Celebrate International Ride-Sharing Day Today!
There is a day for everything, and today we celebrate ride sharing.
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Car-sharing or hitch-hiking? There's an App for That
Your phone makes it easier and safer.
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Live in the Cloud
What if we started approaching life from a cloud-computing perspective? What if we saw our homes like netbooks or tablet computers? Technology is making it possible to live in the cloud.
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We Love Product Service Systems, But Would You Use A Netflix For Ties and...
We often ask the question "Why buy when you can rent?" but we never thought of this.
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The sharing economy is here to stay
According to Forbes, revenue from the sharing economy will surpass $3.5 billion this year.
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The Economist puts the 'sharing economy' on the cover
For years we've been talking about renting or borrowing rather than owning. There are so many things that people own but rarely use...
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RentTheChicken.com lets you practice raising backyard chickens
Well, this is pretty clever. If you're enticed by the idea of having fresh eggs straight from the backyard, but are not sure if you're ready to commit, RentTheChicken.com lets you rent some chickens!
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The Kitchen Library is the latest idea in the sharing economy
Why own a fondue pot when you can borrow one?
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Eco-Mobius is a modular, 'forever' smart phone
Phonebloks was a great idea - mix-and-match pieces means upgrading from a basic platform is forever. Now it has a first competitor - the Eco-Mobius.
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AirPnP app is is like AirBnB, but for toilets
While AirBnB allows people to rent out lodging, from the smallest room to the biggest Irish castle, AirPnP has a smaller, though not less useful, ambition.
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What exactly is the "Sharing Economy" these days? Sometimes it smells like...
There is sharing, there is abuse, and there is theft. Susie Cagle takes a tough look at the subject.
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The sharing economy comes home in Cohousing
Copper Lane, a cohousing project in London, shows how design by committee doesn't have to look like a camel.
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The sharing economy comes into the commercial kitchen
Commercial kitchens are really expensive to build. Why not share?
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Should cities be allowed to ban Little Free Libraries?
There are reasonable limits on what people can do on their properties. But this goes too far.
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Should you "neither a borrower nor a lender be"? (Survey)
That was the advice of Shakespeare's Polonius, but then there is the sharing economy. Which is it?
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You don't need money if you've got Bunz
This is not your usual trading site; it is much more of a community.
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The sharing economy, Cadillac style
Cadillac introduces BOOK, which lets you book the car you want when you want it. We should all be so lucky.
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