Posts tagged with "sustainability"
4 Sustainability Super Bowl Ads: Companies Bet Big on Social Conscience
Let’s take a look at the top 5 sustainability-focused commercials at this year’s Super Bowl.
How to Reduce Your Plastic Use
The problem of plastic pollution is a daunting issue, requiring immediate action. There are steps that can be taken today to alleviate our plastic problem.
How Can Tech Alleviate the Water Crisis?
844 million people around the world don't have access to clean water. Recent innovations in technology could make the water crisis a thing of the past.
Video: The Seattle Mariners Make History with LED Lit Field
Lighting costs a lot, both in energy and dollars. In this video interview, we learn why the Seattle Mariners implemented LED stadium lighting.
Lighting that Protects Us ... and Our Environment
Violet Defense’s S.A.G.E. system utilizes germ-killing lights in combination with violet and UV light to eradicate pathogens. Here's how it works.
The Power of the Sun, Part 2: Fusion’s Clean Energy Future
Michl Binderbauer, CEO of TAE Technologies, discusses the future of clean energy and how fusion energy technology is going to lead us there.
The Power of the Sun, Part One: What is Fusion Energy?
CEO of TAE Technologies Michl Binderbauer explains the basics behind fusion energy, an up-and-coming sustainable solution to our world’s growing energy needs.
Video Interview: How Wells Fargo Supports Innovation via the IN² Program
We sat down with Ramsay Huntley, VP of Clean Tech at Wells Fargo to discuss IN², a program developed in partnership with NREL in Golden, Colorado.
Innovation Loves Company: Santa Clarita Valley, California's Booming Business Community
Santa Clarita Valley, CA has been named “Most Business-Friendly City in Los Angeles County" twice. Why are tech companies flocking to SCV? Find out here.
Feeding the Future with Anna Sophia Robb
Actress Anna Sophia Robb tackles food waste with the Feeding Better Futures campaign. Roughly one-third of the food produced in the world for human consumption goes to waste every year. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), that is approximately 1.3 billion tons of food annually. The problem...
Giving the Environment a Voice
Documentary Producer Nico Ibargüen on how to make environment issues approachableWhen it comes to environmentalism, Nicolás “Nico” Ibargüen does it all. He’s the force behind Project Earth, a global digital platform, for which he produces hundreds of hours of documentary content per year. His work has spanned myriad topics....Why Sustainability is a Business’s Best Friend with KoAnn Skrzyniarz
It has been more than ten years since KoAnn Skrzyniarz combined her business background with her deep love and concern for our environmental and social future. Her goal? To reframe sustainability as the most significant innovation opportunity of the 21st century – rather than merely a risk or cost savings play – and to help brands...
The Emerging Threat of E-Waste
Technology and sustainability generally mesh together well. Smartphones and tablets have reduced the need for paper and ride-sharing carpool apps can help reduce pollution-friendly traffic by 75%, according to an MIT study. However, there’s been a hidden sustainability issue that this golden age of technology has brought: the...
Tesla Activates World’s Largest Battery In South Australia
Elon Musk recently took a page out of the pizza delivery playbook, claiming that he would build the world’s biggest lithium ion battery in 100 days or less or provide it for free. And, in case you, for some reason, still doubt Musk’s ability to get things done, I’ll assure you that he delivered the battery well under the 100-day...
Adrian Grenier’s Last Straw
Adrian Grenier has had it with drinking straws. Not because the little paper wrapper is hard to open, or because if they bend and split they become useless, but because they are a perfect example of an unnecessary single-use plastic. “We all encounter plastic straws daily,” Adrian Grenier tells us. “And we use plastic straws...The Corporate Guide to Loving Green (the other kind)
Corporate sustainability efforts are a bright spot in the quest to reduce carbon emissions. Yet these bright spots – equivalent, perhaps, to an old-fashioned 60-watt light bulb – could be brighter and more effective (LEDs) if more organizations were on track to integrate green thinking into corporate culture.Instead,...Is Silicon Valley Guilty of Greenwashing?
A modern commercial begins with a lush field, pristine mountains, and a beautiful waterfall, as soothing music plays in the background. However, after all that natural scenery, something a bit less, shall we say, organic appears: a BMW roaring down a highway. This type of nature-focused branding is nothing new. Companies such as...Why Life Cycle Assessments are the Cheat Code for Green Businesses
Even with the prevalence of email, text messages, and websites, our nation is far from paperless. According to Boston College, each American uses about 680 pounds of paper per year, and all that paper takes a lot of trees, water and chemicals to produce.Traditional paper is resource-intensive, that’s why sustainability-minded paper...