dMASS Insights: Designs that save raw materials, value from waste & much more

by dMASS Staff April 10, 2012

What’s New Welcome to this week’s edition of dMASS Insights!  Be sure to read through the latest examples we’ve gathered in “Doing Better with Less.” They include a reusable fire extinguisher that uses common household ingredients to put out fire, batteries made from paper pulp waste, and micro-robot manufacturing influenced by origami. This week’s “Don’t Miss” is [...]

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dMASS Insights: Improving resource performance with innovative shapes & more

by dMASS Staff March 30, 2012

What’s New Welcome back to another issue of dMASS Insights, designed to help you think about the value of resources and products! Be sure to try this week’s Think dMASS exercise, which tests your ability to combine products and their functions. Read a pair of inspiring articles that illustrate different ways companies are mining opportunities within [...]

Tagged as: architecture, biomimicry, energy, Innovation, Materials, Resource Performance

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dMASS Insights: Innovations, discoveries & a peek at Naked Value

by dMASS Staff March 26, 2012

What’s New Welcome to this week’s Insights! Here’s a quick look at what we’re featuring: a device that transforms plastic bottle waste into a usable material, a gecko-inspired adhesive that can hold up to 700 pounds, a portable chip that can test for infections in minutes, and see-through glass that harvests solar power.  Our “Don’t [...]

Tagged as: biomimicry, energy harvesting, Innovation, Materials, medicine

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dMASS Insights: Trends in sustainability management, advances in energy & more

by dMASS Staff March 16, 2012

What’s New Kathryn Lewis is back from the NAEM Corporate Sustainability Management Conference, where she spoke about dMASS, sustainability innovations, and emerging technologies. She noted two important trends. First, more companies are shifting their focus away from environmental management toward resource management, which is consistent with the dMASS approach. By managing and reducing their businesses’ resource inputs on the “front [...]

Tagged as: 3D printing, energy, energy harvesting, medicine, passive design, Sustainability

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dMASS Insights: Innovations in Medicine, Energy & Manufacturing

by dMASS Staff March 9, 2012

What’s New On Thursday, March 8th Kathryn Lewis spoke on Sustainability Innovations and Emerging Technologies at the NAEM 2012 Corporate Sustainability Management Conference in Atlanta. If you attended, send us your feedback about Kathryn’s presentation and other discussions at the conference! Let’s explore what we’ve gathered for you in this week’s Insights. Read about dMASS innovations, like erasable, re-printable [...]

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dMASS Insights: Nutrition without agriculture, wind power without turbines & more

by dMASS Staff March 2, 2012

What’s New Has it seemed like we’ve been a bit quieter than normal? There’s a good reason – we’re getting ready to publish our first dMASS book! Look for details soon. This week’s Insights offers a number of proposals, prototypes, designs, and discoveries that aim to increase value with fewer materials.  Learn about a design to [...]

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dMASS Insights: Waterless dyeing, a lightweight train, edible bottles & more

by dMASS Staff February 24, 2012

What’s New If you’re new to dMASS and haven’t seen our original Design Matters video yet, don’t miss it. Here’s what a consultant at European firm Verteego had to say recently: “Check out dMASS’s super smart resource performance management briefing to convince you that reducing the total amount of resources you’re embedding into your business is a prerequisite [...]

Tagged as: dMASS, energy, energy harvesting, Innovation, nanotechnology, Waste

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