OTTAWA, Ontario, CANADA -- To demonstrate the viability of using wheat waste to make paper, Canadian Geographic printed one issue with paper containing 20 percent wheat straw.

OAKLAND, Calif. -- The demand for biodegradable plastic is expected to double by 2012, with many opportunities in packaging and food service products.

OAKLAND, Calif. -- Children’s Choice, a school lunch company that packages its food in compostable trays, is now helping set up systems for proper disposal of the trays.

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. -- A new multi-industry group aims to figure out how to recover, recycle and create end markers for post-consumer bioplastic items.

MUSCATINE, Iowa -- The HON Company has started using GreenShield FR, a product with fewer fluorocarbons than typical water-repellant finishes, on its seating.

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. -- The winners of Autodesk's Build Something Student Design Challenge created a green campus residence, zero emission glider and road system that preserve excavations.

Manufacturers use this rigorous design certification to create products that will be sustainable for generations to come.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- Real-world innovations, 'green gurus' and tools and strategies to expand design's benefits were among the offerings at the Greener by Design yesterday.

NAPERVILLE, Ill. -- Among the new offerings the retailer announced yesterday are binders, pencil cases, trash cans and cleaning products that are made from reclaimed waste materials and environmentally beneficial ingredients.

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM -- The Environmental Protection and Encouragement Agency assigned uruku and sandalwood, rose and lavender oils the certification after a three year assessment.

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Henkel, a Germany-based corporation that makes products such as Soft Scrub and Dial soaps, made a three-year commitment to work with the university's Global Institute of Sustainability to measure product environmental impacts from cradle to grave.

OAKLAND, Calif. -- Manufacturers are taking strides to make IT products more efficient and with less hazardous materials. For many products, a relatively quick and simple assessment can be completed by focusing on three primary areas: material content, energy consumption and end of life considerations.

Sustainable chemistry, still in its infancy, holds a lot of promise for environmentally-friendly materials of the future. Safety and knowledge gaps, however, threaten its growth.

Stonyfield, Unilever and Aveda have known for years what other manufacturers are just discovering: that lighter-weight and recycled material can be transformed into beautiful packaging that is good for the environment.

Furniture company Herman Miller has long set the standard for green practices. In this interview, Paul Murray explains how the company's first sustainability report is raising the bar even higher.