A project of Nike, Creative Commons, and Best Buy to create an open innovation platform that promotes the creation and adoption of technologies that have the potential to solve important global or industry-wide challenges.
Effort by IBM, Nokia, Pitney Bowes and Sony in partnership with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) enable collaboration between businesses that foster new innovations. Since the launch of the Eco-Patent Commons in January 2008, one hundred eco-friendly patents have been pledged by eleven companies representing a variety of industries worldwide
Short article describing efforts to go beyond green building standards to green district standards. Examples mentioned for Portland, Seattle, and cities in China.
Project focused on 'providing relief workers and affected communities with a simpler and more straightforward analytical and decision-making framework to identify significant environmental issues in relation to ... saving lives and reducing damage'.
"A comprehensive source of information on state, local, utility, and selected federal incentives that promote renewable energy".
Guidelines for sustainable design in the reconstruction of New Orleans developed by participants in a charrette on Gulf Coast Reconstruction that was held on November 9-11, 2005, at the U.S. Green Building Council’s annual conference in Atlanta.
