Israeli designer Shai Agassi has an audacious plan to end the era of gas-powered autos. (BusinessWeek) Read more...

Adam Lowry, co-founder of green cleaning products company Method, explains why green firms cannot afford to neglect design and performance when developing new products. (BusinessGreen) Read more...

Jesse Johnson is the design innovator behind Q Collection Junior, maker of a striking line of eco-friendly baby furniture. All of the company's products are made from locally sourced materials, with non-toxic, low-VOC, water-based paints and stains, and formaldehyde-free glues. Here's his story. (Hatch) Read more...

Fast Company calls him the "motorhead messiah," others are content with the relatively humble "patron saint of green cars." The point is, Johnathan Goodwin can get 100 mpg out of a Lincoln Continental while cutting emissions by 80% and double the horsepower while he's at it, according to this profile of a true green design pioneer.

Material science and chemistry are at the root of engineering innovations from semiconductors to nanotechnology. Yet even as technologists design new materials, little is understood about the potentially harmful effects of these inventions on people and the environment. John Warner, director of the Center for Green Chemistry at the University of Massachussets, is out to change all that. (CNet) Read more...

Michael Darmanin wants to design a marketing message that sticks. The New Zealand-born commercial animator has recently set up shop in New York with Sticky Pictures, a motion design boutique with a green edge. He says that aesthetically, his designs lends themselves toward eco-conscious branding initiatives. (Broadcast Newsroom) Read more...

It might resemble a piece of moulded Plasticine that's been poked by a few too many pencils, but this is the C-Cactus and Citroen says it points the way to a greener future for motoring. (Stuff) Read more...

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Allan Rushforth, vice president of Hyundai Motor Europe, discusses Hyundai's new hydrogen-powered, zero-emission concept car, the i-Blue Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle. The FCEV, which was recently unveiled at the 62nd International Motor Show in Frankfurt, is tailored to incorporate Hyundai's third-generation fuel cell technology, currently being developed at the company's Eco-Technology Research Institute in Mabuk, Korea.

A 25-year veteran of the design and technology industries, Terry Swack hopped on the Internet bus a little earlier that most of us. As founder, in 1994, of web strategy firm TSDesign, and later Green Building Blocks and BlueEgg, she has witnessed firsthand consumers' enthusiasm for (and resistance to) adopting new green products and technologies. She now heads up Clean Culture, a customer experience research and strategy consultancy focused on making clean tech and sustainable products more understandable and desirable. We asked Terry how the concept of user experience has helped shape her approach to product design.

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Leading experience design strategist and environmental entrepreneur Terry Swack, founder & CEO of Clean Culture, a consulting firm focused on making clean tech and sustainable products more understandable and desirable to consumers. In this webcast, Terry offers her unique perspective on sustainable product design and life-cycle thinking, illustrated by examples of how some companies are "designing green."

Mich.-based manufacturer Herman Miller is known worldwide as one of the preeminent furniture firms, both in terms of aesthetics and economics, and has also been the recipient of recognition for everything from triumphs of design to innovative uses of information technology. (IndustryWeek) Read more...

Since his "green conversion" in 1994, Ray Anderson has turned into perhaps the leading corporate evangelist for sustainability. Read more...

One of the first global businesses to implement an environmental management system, Hewlett-Packard has earned kudos for sustainability efforts at every stage of the production process, from greener product design to energy efficiency in manufacturing to managing electronic waste. SLM asked Pat Tiernan, Hewlett-Packard's vice president of corporate social and environmental responsibility, about the the true meaning of "producer responsibility" and what lies ahead for a cleaner, greener electronics industry.

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Design pioneer Tom Dixon speaks about issues, concerns and contradictions in sustainable design, including materials, production, recycling, and economics. (via Inhabitat)