Biologist, author and entrepreneur, Janine Benyus discusses the emerging concept of biomimicry – the application of the elegant systems and adaptations of the natural world to solve problems in our built world. Entrepreneurs and innovators are shifting from learning about nature to learning from nature for answers to today’s pressing challenges. In her book, Biomimicry [...]

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Orange, Official Communications Partner for the Glastonbury Festival, today announced the latest invention in the world of ecocharging technology with an innovative gadget that powers mobile phones using sound. It takes advantage of piezo electricity and is built into a t-shirt. Following months of planning and development, the prototype, named the Orange ‘Sound Charge’ has [...]

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Press Release from Newcastle University, UK Cracks in your concrete? You need ˜BacillaFilla” A concrete-mending bacteria that can knit together cracks in concrete structures by producing a special glue has been developed by a team of students at Newcastle University. The genetically-modified microbe has been programmed to swim down fine cracks in the concrete. Once [...]

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Cross-posted from Ecology Today Luz Claudio Environmental Health Perspectives – Waste Couture September 2007 On a Saturday afternoon, a group of teenage girls leaf through glossy fashion magazines at a New Jersey outlet mall. Shopping bags brimming with new purchases lay at their feet as they talk excitedly about what’s in style to wear this [...]

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Until a week ago, my only understanding of the term CSR was from my experience as a bank teller, officially known as a Customer Service Representative. I am now aware that the acronym, as part of social innovation discourse, stands for something different. It represents the idea of Corporate Social Responsibility, which is a policy [...]

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