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It’s Time To Specify a Climate Positive Future

Check out the partners helping making a sustainable, positive impact in our climate future.

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Stop Making Sustainability So Complicated

Look at this page and ask yourself: which of these sustainability metrics is clearer?

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Red Dot Award for Outstanding Product Design Goes to Kiri from Toppan

Toppan Interamerica, a leading global printer of innovative decorative surfaces, has announced that their KIRI Paper Veneer Product has been awarded the prestigious Red Dot 2023 Award for Product Design.

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Best Remedies for ‘Climate Doom’: Communication, Education, and Action

Plain language, clear standards, and real action are the only ways toward a sustainable, climate-positive future.

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A (Partial) Glossary of Carbon and Climate Terms

Make sense of the alphabet soup of climate and carbon-related words and phrases.

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Heimtextil 2023

Happening 10-13 January, in Frankfurt, Germany.

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What Sustainability Means—For Businesses and Their Brands

Sustainability isn’t optional, and it turns out to be good for business. See how consumers, employees, and investors look at sustainable practices.

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KCMA Partners with ClimatePositiveNOW.org to promote use of sustainable, healthy materials

Not quite the kitchen sink, but the kitchen cabinets are one way to sequester tons of carbon for the long-term.

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Earth Overshoot Day: First the Bad News, Then the Good

Earth Overshoot Day marks the day each year humanity consumes more resources than the planet can regenerate.

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Material Minute: Milan Design Week with Markus Benesch

The incredibly talented Markus Benesch has been many things in his quarter-century career: self-taught designer, architect, professor, inventor, and artist. His playful creations and masterful storytelling were a high point of Milan Design Week 2019. We caught up with him again during a very sultry Milan Design Week this June to ask about his 2022 exhibit:  ... Read more

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