by Gil Friend | May 10, 2003 | Sustainability
Panel Urges Complete Ban on Products With Asbestos. Asbestos should be banned from all new products sold in the U.S., according to a panel that includes doctors, business and government experts and union representatives. By Alex Berenson. [New York Times: Science]...
by Gil Friend | May 8, 2003 | Sustainability
[RiskWorld]: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has disclosed that 74 percent of U.S. publicly traded corporations they surveyed openly violate the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) environmental financial debt accounting regulations....
by Gil Friend | May 8, 2003 | Sustainability
The EPA Office of Solid Waste, and MBDC have announced a design challenge to rethink and redesign e-commerce shipping packaging for a cradle-to-cradle life cycle. The design challenge is specifically targeted at the shipping packaging associated with the suburban home...
by Gil Friend | May 7, 2003 | Sustainability
Europeans Lagging in Greenhouse Gas Cuts. Ten of the 15 European Union nations are falling behind in efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions and meet targets set by the Kyoto Protocol. By Emma Daly. [New York Times: Science] The union’s largest economies,...
by Gil Friend | May 7, 2003 | Sustainability
Why good design comes from bad design. …I don’t know what a good idea looks like until I’ve seen the bad ones… [xBlog: The visual thinking weblog | XPLANE] Many of these ideas were awful, just plain unworkable. But with each idea I came up...
by Gil Friend | May 6, 2003 | Sustainability
“As an entry in any intergalactic design competition, Industrial Civilization would be thrown out at the qualifying round.” — David Orr, Earth in Mind “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new...
