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The Boston office of IDEO worked with the United States Green Building Council to find a new organizational structure that matched their sustainable...

* Proposal: The commons-based international Food Treaty: A legal architecture to sustain a fair and sustainable food transition. By Jose Luis Vivero Pol. Rencontres internationales « Penser une...

Treating food as a purely private good is denying millions of people access to this basic resource. Food should therefore be seen as a commons or p...

Anyone with a 3D printer can lend a hand

Great things have come from Quirky and its community of inventors. But their biggest project, Aros, strained everyone.

This article examines whether the postcapitalist mode of production in the physical world can be introduced by establishing intentional communities.

Helen Pidd: 'Believe it or not, the choice of bamboo as a building material is less about appealing to Guardian readers than about making a superstrong yet light bicycle'

Green design & eco innovation for a better world

Biomimicry 3.8 :: Life's Principles

Biomimicry Design Spiral

Biomimicry: In its most basic definition, biomimicry may be as simple as “imitating life,” but defining a biomimicry design process is less straightforward. We can learn a lot from life systems, but...

Companies seeking breakthrough products tend to ignore the greatest invention machine in the universe: life’s more than three-billion-year history of evolution by natural selection.What’s missing is a...

Ignore the futuristic visions of governments and developers, it’s humble urban communities who lead the way in showing how networked technologies can strengthen a city’s social fabric

How General Electric, Local Motors, and an army of DIY inventors are rebuilding American manufacturing