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This may sound like a rather blatant plug, and it is. InterfaceFLOR makes modular carpets for commercial and residential use that not only are manufactured with bio-based non-toxic materials that won’t off-gas poisons into your office, but they’re also recyclable, so used carpet never winds up in a landfill. It’s hard to believe a web site about carpet could be interesting , but check out the Interface site and be pleasantly surprised.
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Seattle is one of the hundreds of cities that’s endorsed the pollution reducing targets of the Kyoto Protocol (unlike the U.S. federal government). If you run a business in Seattle, you can take another step towards taking action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by joining the Seattle Climate Partnership and agreeing to a number of voluntary measures. Starbucks, REI and the U.W. are already in. How about your company?
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Maybe you’ve heard this acronym and wondered, “what the…?” Well, it stands for Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability, and it’s a market segment focused on health and fitness, the environment, personal development, sustainable living, and social justice. Companies that want to reach this market segment can subscribe to the LOHAS Journal–a print magazine, but there’s plenty of free info (and free enewsletters) you can get right on the LOHAS web site.
Those crafty Australians have put together a very sweet web site, , that gives plenty of tips for more sustainable design. But the best part is the portfolio of handsomely designed, smartly green solutions and the case histories behind them.
You gotta love the United Nations. Not only are they are last, best hope for some sort of world peace, but they’ve also put together a surprisingly informative, well-designed 52-page pdf called Talk the Walk, that makes a very compelling business case for using sustainability as a marketing platform for products and services of all kinds. The site we’re directing you to for the download, by the way, is called greenbiz.com which (as you might expect) is all about the business side of sustainability.
Minnesotans always seem to be lightyears ahead of the rest of us when it comes to design and advertising. Once again, they’re setting the standard with a very, very informative 36-page pdf guide called Better By Design that will take you through all the principles of designing for the environment. While this piece applies to industrial and product design–and not just graphic design–it contains a very useful checklist for making smart, earth-friendly design decisions.
