IKEA, Tiffany, PolarTec Among Time's Green Design 100

What's the greenest company you can think of, from a design standpoint? Odds are, Time Magazine's list of the Green Design 100 has that company covered.digg_url = here’; The list looks at innovative new companies, well established firms going green, and everything in between, with a goal of highlighting the many ways that design can be used to change the world."Call it responsibility or accountability. Or simple popular demand. The rarefied world of design is embracing the environment as never before," the editors write in the introduction to the list. "Top architects are implementing revolutionary methods. Fashion and furniture mainstays are manufacturing products using sustainable materials. And luxury empires are establishing credos on issues their customers are still waking up to. Behind the scenes, trailblazing executives are taking big risks to make it all happen -- beautifully."There are multiple categories of winners, almost all of which also contain companies, but among the companies that made the company-specific list -- chosen, presumably for a corporate-wide embrace of green -- are Ikea, Nike, Mayc's PolarTec, Tag Heuer, and Tiffany & Co.IKEA is a very green company, to be sure; in addition to its innovations around flat-packing, packaging reduction, plastic bag reduction, and heavy investment in renewable energy, the company is also taking a close look at its entire supply chain. From the write-up in Time:
For Ikea, that means prohibiting the use of harmful substances in its products and only using wood from responsibly managed forests. The Swedish home-furnishings retailer also plans to replace its entire selection of electric outdoor lights with solar-powered models, starting this summer.
Nike, too, is a hugely innovative company. We have profiled the company nearly 200 times in the past 9 years, often focusing on how the company is using design to boost business goals, reduce waste and save money all at the same time. From Time:
Since the launch of its Reuse-A-Shoe program in 1990, Nike has recycled more than 21 million pairs of athletic shoes to create public basketball courts and athletic tracks around the world. Its new Considered Design approach aims to reduce waste and eliminate toxins from its factories, further reducing its carbon shoe print.
When I think about Jewelry giant Tiffany & Co., sustainability is not the first thing that comes to mind. But the company has long been a leader on cleaning up the resource-intensive Jewelry industry. Time writes:
A pioneer in the eco-gold and ethical-mining movement, Tiffany & Co. is also a leader in energy conservation. The Jewelry company installed two solar-power systems at its distribution plant in New Jersey. The panels generate about 1.4 megawatts of power annually, making up 35% of the plant's electricity needs.
Time Magazine's list literally goes on and on, and there are far too many admirable companies on it to do it justice. So go check out the full list of the Green Design 100, while I ask you: what companies are missing from this list?Right off the top of my head, the companies that are unjustly absent are:
• Method, who continually impress me with the depth and scope of their commitment to use environmentally friendly and non-toxic materials for producing their broad line of cleaning products;• TerraCycle, who takes innovation to eye-opening new levels with turning trash into useful products;• Timberland for both its innovative product designs and its overall-solid climate strategies;• and REI, whose design and renewables projects earned it a spot on the EDF's Innovation Review last month.
Who would you put on the list that didn't make it? Let us know in the comments below.

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All silver tarnishes even at Tiffany

Last Saturday I was at Yorkdale. The visit wouldn’t have been complete without a peek inside the long-awaited Tiffany store. (Anyone know why it was at least six months in the making and not open for the holiday season?)I have two pieces of Tiffany silver jewelry - an Elsa Peretti “e” necklace and a link bracelet. I’d always been told Tiffany would clean them for life for me for free.A couple months ago I broke the delicate chain on the necklace. At the time the Bloor St. location wasn’t as convenient as Yorkdale. So I decided to wait and have an excuse to visit the new store.As for my necklace I did a dumb thing and didn’t put it back in it’s tarnish-resistant case while I was waiting to take it for repairs. I’ll know better for next time. In the meantime I understand it will come back to me looking as good as new. (Note: for silver jewelry more than a year old there is a repair charge.)Since I was there it only made sense to have my bracelet cleaned at the same time right?I was quite surprised when I saw a price list for silver cleaning at the customer service desk. The lovely and apologetic woman at the desk explained that they had to follow the policies at Tiffany New York and the policy changed last December. She went on to say how they now use a muti-step process which is more costly. For one-time only I agreed to have my bracelet cleaned - partly because I had already handed it over.When I returned a few hours later to pick up my bracelet the woman in front of me was there to have her silver jewelry cleaned as well. She was shocked to learn about newly-implemented charges and went on to explain how she travels all over the world and never paid to have her jewelry cleaned at any of the Tiffany stores along the way. Glad to know I wasn’t the only customer who recalled the free cleaning service.Times are tough retailers are clamping down and I’m far from the typical Tiffany customer. However this new policy made me think a lot about the Tiffany brand as a leader in customer service and how it’s being compromised during the recession. Aren’t there other ways retailers can trim expenses without having to hurt their long-established traditions of excellent customer service?Unlike the Bloor St. store Tiffany Yorkdale is quite stripped down although extremely busy and Tiffany blue bags can be seen throughout the mall. I wouldn’t have thought any less of them if the customer service desk wasn’t made of thick marble. Wonder how many cleaning charges it will take to pay for that?As for me next time I’ll save the $10 and polish it myself. ($10 goes along way when it comes to jewelry cleaning products that last forever even Tiffany offers a wide-range of home cleaning solutions starting at $5 and up.)

Lane Crawford puts out Swarovski Crystal Palace

Lie in house and fashionable life department of Lane Crawford of shopping center of financial street of Beijing to show a contemporary design object of illusion exclusively --Swarovski Crystal Palace (Swarovski Crystal Palace) . In Swarovski Crystal Palace, new product series of intention most to display and substitute whom the successors Nadja Swarovski created for global and famous designer of the head with the fifth in family of Swarovski.


Swarovski Crystal Palace
Nadja Swarovski was born in Germany and longer than Austria, accepted the education in Europe and U.S.A.. She once worked in Gagosian gallery of New York, company of Eleanor Lambert and Marilyn Evins public relations. In 1995, she joined the market summoning for trail and public relation department of family firm Swarovski North American limited company, took office in Swarovski Hong Kong limited company hereafter, is responsible for the business of market of China and Southeast Asia. After getting back to New York, she serves as the pioneer, determines to combine jewel and film the crystal, introduce the luxurious fashion field again.
Vice-president, as the summoning for trail department of world, Nadja set up the enterprises of London to summon the unit for trail in November of 2000, combine the service centre of the intention and concept summoned for trail. Nadja incumbent Germany D. Swarovski Co. president and concurrently president of board of directors, insist with fashion, jewel, building, design with music field connecting with hand intention cooperate in, aim at orientating Swarovski Crystal as the intention element in these fields again.
From setting up, Swarovski Crystal Palace won global praise, known as having a illusion contemporary design object most. Nadja Swarovski has assembled the best new entering and well-known figures in the building, art, fashion and indoor design field, have redesigned and demonstrated crystalline dreamlike dazzling strength and the latest science and technology, realize this project perfectly finally. Regarding traditional classical branch shape ornament lamp as the beginning, they create the unprecedented outstanding creation, have subverted us to lamp decoration and crystalline conservative concept.
2008 Swarovski Crystal Palace series include Arne Quinze, Fredrikson Stallard, Front Design, Marcel Wanders, the newest design of Marcus Tremonto, Paul Cocksedge, Piero Lissoni, Studio Job, Tokujin Yoshioka and Zaha Hadid, Crystal Skull of Fabien Baron, Randomly Crystalline of Front Design, there are Cavern Collection of other Fredriskon Stallard,etc., will display in the shop of Lane Crawford.

Hip Hop Jewelry.

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