Category Archives: Innovation Exchange

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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How Carpooling Can Reduce Your Company’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions

By | Published: February 1, 2012

This is a guest blog by Jef Cozza, Director of Amovens Although it’s taken longer than we would’ve liked, corporations are now seeing the value in reducing their carbon footprint. Companies such as Swiss Re, LG Electronics and Sprint, have all made greenhouse gas reduction a cornerstone of their sustainability policies. But while many corporations [...]

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Idea Storm Session 2: How Do We Support Employee-led Sustainability Initiatives?

By | Published: December 20, 2011

By John Pflueger, Principal Environmental Strategist, Dell Every day, employees working in their businesses in their communities, supporting their families, have opportunities to affect the environmental sustainability of their organizations. Dell and Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) are working together to gather ideas for how the internet and social media can support their work. Initiatives to make [...]

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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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New Storm Session: How can the internet drive innovation for sustainable business?

By | Published: November 16, 2011

Innovative, environmentally-conscious, and opinionated customers are urged to submit ideas to IdeaStorm’s latest burning topic: How can the internet drive innovation for sustainable business? Dell has partnered with the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) to kick off the current Storm Session, which will run through next Sunday, November 13th. Although the internet’s impact ranges from powering [...]

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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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11/14: Talking "Short-termism," Business and Society with Aspen's Judy Samuelson

By | Bio | Published: November 9, 2011

A “Future of Green” Open Conference Call During his speech at the recent BSR Conference, Al Gore said that short-term decision-making in business was “functionally insane,” explaining "It's not only insane where the values that we share are concerned; it's functionally insane where the well-being of that business is concerned… It's the wrong decision for [...]

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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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