Category Archives: Eco-Challenge Series

Replacing your iPhone? Think again before trashing it

By | Published: September 12, 2012

With the unveiling of a new iPhone today, many of us are wondering what to do with the device we bought last year. But old cell phones aren’t the only problem. From Apple laptops to Zenith televisions, 20-50 million tons of electronic products are discarded annually, be they buried in landfills, burned in incinerators or [...]

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Eco-Challenge Series Seeker Spotlight: EMC

By | Published: May 14, 2012

InnoCentive, EMC and EDF recently announced a new Eco-Challenge seeking solutions for tracking shipments of used electronic components and subsystems and ensuring that they are disposed of responsibly. Safe, legal and transparent e-waste disposal is an ongoing concern for both industry and environmental groups, which want to make sure heavy metals and chemicals are not [...]

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Crowd-sourcing stirs up fresh ideas for recycling TVs and monitors

By | Bio | Published: February 28, 2012

Can our old TVs and computer monitors, which are filled with toxic substances, be safely and profitably recycled into new products?  We don’t know, but with tens of millions units expected to hit the waste stream over the next few years as households upgrade to newer flat panel models, we need to find out. And [...]

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Seeker Spotlight: Consumer Electronics Association

By | Published: November 30, 2011

By InnoCentive We recently posted a Challenge with the Consumer Electronics Association and Environmental Defense Fund as part of our EDF/InnoCentive EcoChallenge Series.  The Challenge seeks financially viable, environmentally-beneficial business models based on the repurposing of recycled Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) glass from used televisions and computer monitors.  We spoke with Walter Alcorn, Vice President of [...]

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Could you deliver a solution to the television-recycling problem?

By | Bio | Published: November 14, 2011

As more and more households upgrade their old TVs to the newer flat panels, a troubling question must be asked:  What happens to the old ones?   Over the next few years, an estimated one billion pounds of discarded TVs and monitors are anticipated to hit the waste stream. Recycling seems like the easy answer, but, [...]

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Innovation Innovating (and “Please, come to Boston”)

By | Bio | Published: November 3, 2011
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Growing GIBN Conference Call: Overview of Innovation Innovating ActivitiesOpen conference call and discussion on the variety of sustainability innovation activities.11/8 at 2pm ET Dial-in:  Phone: (760) 569-9000; Code: 160031#   Online Brainstorming:  How can the Internet drive innovation for sustainable business Join the Dell/EDF Storm Session. Register and then login to comment and vote.   [...]

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I’m a Solver: Patrick Fuller

By | Published: November 2, 2011

Patrick Fuller recently won the Nitrate Capture System Eco-Challenge sponsored by Environmental Defense Fund (EDF). I am currently a Ph.D. candidate in chemical and biological engineering at Northwestern University, collaboratively working on a variety of computational and experimental projects. This work ranges from green energy to catalysis, but all of my projects share one common goal: improving [...]

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Crowdsourcing Green

By | Published: October 6, 2011

By Marc Gunther, senior writer at GreenBiz.com and a blogger at www.marcgunther.com We is smarter than me. That’s the premise behind a partnership between the  Environmental Defense Fund and InnoCentive. You probably know EDF–they’re a (mostly) business friendly nonprofit that looks for solutions to environmental problems. InnoCentive is a company that has built an open [...]

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That's All Folks! Eco-Challenge Submissions Close

By | Published: September 27, 2011

It is an exciting time for the Eco Challenge Series, the partnership between Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and open innovation company InnoCentive.  With our first two challenges closed, we are on the verge of awarding our first prizes for eco-innovation. EDF put up two prizes to solve pressing environmental challenges in agriculture and we’re working [...]

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We have a problem. Can you solve it?

By | Published: July 14, 2011

Nitrogen pollution is a significant issue facing the environment: Across the U.S. and many parts of the world, large scale farming operations are applying excessive amounts of fertilizers and the unprecedented excess of nitrogen resulting from these farming practices contributes to coastal dead zones, impaired drinking water supplies, degraded fisheries and recreational areas, and risks [...]

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