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...their Selfridges department store in Birmingham, England, a billowing form covered with silvery disks. Here's their upcoming museum for Maserati, the Italian car manufacturer, with its lines that any car designer would call aerodynamic. Here's a phallic skyscraper, never built, that bends like a cattail in the wind. And here's the most implacably futuristic model of the bunch, a proposal for a prefabricated house that would rise out of the ground on a long neck, continue for a distance underground and send up a kind of tail at its rear. If it calls to mind all kinds...
...global president. "We used recycled paper, about 20% postconsumer. We were as natural as we could be while still protecting the products." These days all of Origins' outer packaging is 50% postconsumer recycled fiber and certified by the Forest Stewardship Council, and the cartons are manufactured using only wind- or hydropower. And by July, all 500 Origins products will have been reformulated without parabens, controversial chemical preservatives that are inexpensive and effective but may be linked to certain cancers. "It's taken a couple of years to get there, since it was a huge endeavor and financial commitment...
...forefront of green innovation in terms of product and store design?in the beauty business or any business?is Minnesota-based Aveda. For decades, Aveda has concentrated on using green energy, renewable resources and plant-based alternatives to synthetic ingredients. Its distribution center in Blaine, Minn., is 100% wind powered. Its makeup casings are refillable, and a candle that Aveda created last year won an award for its packaging, which contained makeready paper, used by printing presses to prepare for a job. Aveda claims to be the world's largest purchaser of organic essential oils, and to make...
...This is one of the toughest schedules the Harvard’s women’s tennis team has ever had.”VANDERBILT 6, HARVARD 1The Crimson opened the match against Vanderbilt flat, getting swept for the doubles point.“That took the wind out of our sails early,” Graham said.The match only became tougher as singles play began.Harvard seemed to receive a break when the top player for the Commodores, No. 35 Amanda Fish, sat out the singles to ice here heel area. Nevertheless, with three more singles players ranked...
...Chronicle posited that the pledge “could lead to a dizzying array of changes in industry and elsewhere,” suggesting that “state regulators could require more public transportation, more densely built housing, a major new investment in projects that tap into the wind and sun to generate electricity, millions of new trees and even new ways for farmers to handle animal waste...