“It’s time to move beyond thinking about corporate responsibility toward “corporate consciousness,” says Jeffrey Hollender, co-founder of Seventh Generation and author of The Responsibility Revolution. Read on for his other provocative ideas…

When I set out to write Glimmer, I swore I’d never write about chair or bike design. Of course, I soon broke my own rule. One of the things I discussed was bamboo bikes. Good to see these sustainably-produced vehicles have become a hot trend.

It’s an interesting question: Can open innovation help with this mess? Or maybe a better question to ask is, how could it hurt?

With Earth Day approaching, it seemed a good time to revisit a conversation with science writer, innovation consultant, conservationist and self-proclaimed nature nerd, Janine Benyus –the author of Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature, a book …

Several years ago, Fritz Haeg got to wondering why people devote so much acreage and energy to something as unnecessary and uninteresting as a front lawn. His book “Edible Estates” has started a movement.

The New York Times today published this wonderful obituary of "green" architect Malcolm Wells (written by Bruce Weber). Wells’ guiding rule was "Leave the land no worse than you found it." Glimmerati William McDonough pays …

Sorry, couldn’t resist that headline. But this is actually a serious story about how design thinking can be applied to even seemingly frivolous products—such as underwear. PACT, a new underwear brand started by entrepreneurs Jason …

Why the green movement has failed to inspire—and why it’s time to "think orange."
When it comes to changing behavior, we have fifty years of evidence that going negative doesn’t work. For over half a century, …