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Prototype - Big Corporations Pool Their Green Innovations
nytimes.com - 10/31/2009
Prototype - Big Corporations Pool Their Green Innovations
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Companies are sharing environmentally friendly innovations. They include an I.B.M. method to clean semiconductor wafers, top, and a DuPont process, right, that uses microorganisms to identify pollutants. Others are water-based shoe adhesives from Nike and a packing insert from I.B.M.

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Ramsay Home:  Everybody in the Pool of Green Innovation

The Oil Drum:  Drumbeat: November 1, 2009

Triple Pundit: People, Planet, Profit:  The Sustainability Commons: How Corporate Data Sharing Can Advance Sustainability

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Everybody in the Pool of Green Innovation
Ramsay Home — ... found the following on 2009-10-31 20:51:28: New York Times wrote... Everybody in the Pool of Green InnovationNew York TimesACCORDING to Kelly Lauber, a global director in Nike's Sustainable Business and Innovation Lab, sharing technology can have tremendous environmental impact. ... Read the original article at, http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/01/business/01proto.html Follow more real-time stories about sustainability at ...

Drumbeat: November 1, 2009
The Oil Drum — ... in general, and to a global shift in agriculture from food crops to fuel crops. This has generated a boom in the agrofuel market (expedited by governments on the grounds of “national security” concerns). The result has been greater food scarcities, inducing an upward spiral in food prices and the spiking of world hunger. Speculators have seen this as an opportunity for getting richer quicker through the monopolization of land and primary commodity resources. Everybody in the Pool of Green Innovation A POPULAR children’s song has a refrain — ...

The Sustainability Commons: How Corporate Data Sharing Can Advance Sustainability
Triple Pundit: People, Planet, Profit — ... ‘ post in the New York Times called “ Everybody in the Pool of Green Innovation ” this weekend – it really struck a chord. The article focused on two initiatives involving major corporations to share patents that protect the environment and foster new innovations. Through the ...

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