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Cool City Challenge - Taking the "Low Carbon Diet" to Scale

THE INNOVATION: The purpose of the Cool City Challenge is to bring to scale proven behavior change and community engagement methodologies t…

Started by Sue Lebeck

0 Sep 9, 2013

Engineering Ideas at the Zoo

THE INNOVATION: Biomimicry-inspired incubation models have emerged in recent years, all aiming to nurture technologies originating in Natur…

Started by Sue Lebeck

0 Jul 16, 2013

The Centre for BioInspiration - at the San Diego Zoo

THE INNOVATION: In this new biomimicry-inspired incubation model, biologists match animal and plant species’ natural adaptations to the fun…

Started by Sue Lebeck

0 Jul 16, 2013

Sustainable America's Cup - a smooth partnership

THE INNOVATION: An Olympian Gold-Medalist-turned-Sustainability-Manager takes on the 34th America’s Cup, with the partnership of the event'…

Started by Sue Lebeck

0 Apr 9, 2013

Material Transformation

THE INNOVATION: Our very relationship with materials is due for a transformation.    New changes --  in design approaches,  in civic policy…

Started by Sue Lebeck

0 Apr 9, 2013

TrashAmps - "Reuse it for Music"

THE INNOVATION: Inspiring kids to upcycle by designing a take-everywhere fun product that utilizes everyday trash items as its changeable p…

Started by Sue Lebeck

0 Apr 9, 2013

Looptworks - Upcycled from Excess

THE INNOVATION: Using exclusively pre-consumer waste –- amassed at 70x the rate of post-consumer waste in the apparel industry -- to create…

Started by Sue Lebeck

0 Apr 9, 2013

LCA: Providing Holistic Decision Support

THE INNOVATION: Bringing environmental LifeCycle Assessment (LCA) -- a common sense, holistic approach to decision-making -- to a much broa…

Started by Sue Lebeck

0 Mar 12, 2013

TSC: The Sustainability Consortium

THE INNOVATION: Creating a scientific foundation for the environmental measurement and reporting of consumer goods.   Dr. Jon (Jonathan) Jo…

Started by Sue Lebeck

0 Mar 12, 2013

Smart Supply Chain - Stopping the Value Leaks

THE INNOVATION: Helping major brands and other companies in taking sustainability serious and deep – not as an add-on or nice-to-have or re…

Started by Sue Lebeck

0 Dec 4, 2012

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