During Hybridfest in Madison, Wisc., Jonathan Foley, from the Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment (SAGE), gave a presentation titled, “News From A Warming Planet.”

European designer Marie-Louise Hellgren creates every day items like bowls, mugs and plates. Her objects have sold in millions in places like Scandinavia, Japan and the United States.

Marie-Louise, who works for large industries and Design House Stockholm among others, has been a green proponent for years. After spending a ...

In designer and entrepreneur Lotta Jansdotter’s world, sustainability is about using a product over and over again. She creates tote bags, table linens, ceramics, stationery, books and much more - all with funky and organic (yet simple) patterns. Her products are now sold all over the U.S., in Japan, ...

San Francisco’s Department of the Environment is leading the initiative to fully redesign Treasure Island, a 400-acre human-made island in the San Francisco Bay. Originally built for The World’s Fair in 1939, it’s been used as a movie studio, a naval base and now for residential housing. By ...

We’re constantly thinking about sustainability - in the environment we live in, as well as in the way we work and produce media. Creative Commons is a non-profit organization trying to change the way people use copyright and licensing for media and intellectual property. Instead of the traditional “all rights reserved” model for distributing works, Creative Commons continues to educate creators about the advantages that come with the “some rights reserved” model.

Kevin Bayuk rents an apartment in the Haight Ashbury district of San Fransicso. He also grows a large amount of his own food, actively composts, raises ducks and captures rainwater - total urban permaculture. One might think you need to own a large plot of land in the country ...

Freshtopia.net is a fun and engaging place to come for news and information on food, sustainability and the environment.

Sustainability can mean a lot of things to a lot of people. In business terms it can mean sink or swim in an ocean of sharks. MonkeyBrains is a local, independent ISP (Internet service provider) that started up at the height of the last boom and is a shining ...

Barb Finnin is part of the amazing Freshtopia team. She’s a certified master composter- her specialty is Vermicomposting with worms. We were super excited to learn that we could compost in our city apartment with a homemade worm bin even though we don’t have a yard. Throwing food ...

In this keynote address at the Cleantech Venture Forum in New York, AIG Global Investment Group Chairman Win Neuger talks about the importance of Cleantech and clean technology.

Transcript:

Guest: Win J. Neuger - AIG Global Investment Group

Announcer
It is my honor and privilege to introduce to you Win Neuger of AIG ...

If you live in San Francisco, you’ve surely seen the bus shelters and buses plastered with a marketing campaign promoting sustainability green lifestyles. Who is behind this? Why do they care? We set out to get more info about the Let’s Green This City campaign.

As goes the consumer, so goes General Motors. That really was the message I got after speaking with GM’s Clay Okabayashi during the Alternative Car & Transportation Expo. The bottom line is that it’s the consumer driving the decision making at the largest automobile manufacturer when it comes ...

The design studios of seven automakers competed in a Design Challenge at the L.A. Auto Show. The competition combined wood, alloys, glass, rubber and other materials to create 100 percent recyclable roadsters of the future. The eco-friendly vehicles were designed with environmental sustainability in mind and included features like ...