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The company has come up with the "Never Ending List," a collection of "promises to help make the world we live in even better," and puts out an annual sustainability report.



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IKEA pioneered the "flat-pack" box that allows more efficient product shipment to reduce gasoline emissions. It was also ahead of the game in cutting the amount of urea formaldehyde in its composite wood products, uses chlorine-free paper in its catalogues and has completely banned the use of PVC except in electrical cords.



As well, the Scandinavian retailer hopes to eventually power all its stores, warehouses, offices and factories with 100 per cent renewable energy, and make its buildings 25 per cent more efficient compared to 2005.



IKEA is not the only big-box business to jump on the environmental bandwagon. In 2007, Home Depot launched a major initiative to sell greener products and recycle the CFL bulbs it sells.



Costco has also embraced renewable energy and is greening its product lines, while Best Buy now recycles used electronics and is building LEED-certified stores.



Even Wal-Mart, the corporation everyone loves to hate, has pledged to make its stores 20 per cent more energy efficient by 2013, while simultaneously doubling the fuel economy of its trucks by 2015 to save 227 million litres of diesel fuel annually.



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Moreover, as businesses choose to locate in single-storey warehouse-like buildings surrounded by parking lots, they require far more space than older multi-storey retail centres.



While the Tuxedo Yards redevelopment housing IKEA will consume 78 hectares of land for its 1.5 million square feet of commercial space and 7,500 parking spaces, for example, the six-storey Bay downtown has more than 600,000 square feet of retail floor space and a parkade on just 1.5 hectares.



Still, while companies deserve credit for genuine efforts at greening their operations, it is a little disingenuous to claim sustainability is at the heart of everything they do when their business model is built on selling replaceable products in low-density, auto-centric retail areas.

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China is facing slackened demand at home and abroad, its export growth in April almost halved to 4.9% from a month ago and imports grew a mere 0.3% − down from 5.3% in March. Some of the loss of domestic consumption appetite results from Beijing’s efforts to rein in inflation and a housing price bubble, but this presents a glimmer of hope for economies like India’s that had all but given up trying to match its northern neighbour’s frugal engineering.



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Some of India’s newfound gains are to be expected from the relative stage of development it is in vis-à-vis China. We are approaching our industrial revolution − hesitatingly, some would argue − while the Chinese are smack in the middle of theirs. As Chinese production capabilities approach those of advanced economies, Indian firms can pick fruit lower down the technology tree.



Emerging from roughly similar economic structures at the end of the 20th century, the two Asian countries can evolve a symbiotic relationship that assists in each other’s development. More Indians will find themselves in factories when the Chinese population begins thinning. That is some way off, and India can play catch-up with a better mix of policy that encourages skill development and technology transfer.



Through partnership with the World Bank, Mexico is implementing a sustainable lighting project.



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In the tenth in the series of UNFCCC CDM Radio Club reports RTCC is hosting, Emmanuel Okella news editor and environmental journalists for Radio Simba-Uganda wonders if such a project can be implemented in his own country, where there is an acute shortage of power supply.

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Mercedes won’t reveal exactly which 70 parameters it monitors, but here’s my bet: this is all software. The car has to keep track of what you do anyway so that stability control knows what to do, so I’m betting that this system is an achievement in software design: some code-writer has found a way to compare all the data the car generates already to provide another use for the existing hardware.



I first experienced this on the BMW 7-Series hybrid I drove while at TestFest a couple of years ago. It’s since come down the BMW line a bit, to where it’s now available on the 5-Series as well.



It uses infrared technology to let you see what’s beyond your headlights.



This might take a while, but my vision (no pun intended) for this is to merge it with a heads-up display. Image-recognition technology could be used so that it only projects itself on to a windscreen when it detects a threat, such as a deer grazing in the ditch.



That would be an improvement, since BMW’s system displays the night-vision images onto the in-dash screen, which takes your eyes off the road.



This is a mainstay of hybrid vehicles. It recaptures the energy normally lost to braking and puts it back into the battery.



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As the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards get tighter, look to see carmakers rolling out every trick in the book to try to get fuel consumption numbers down. This could well be one of them.



That’s a Porsche name for headlights that steer into a turn.



Today, it’s a somewhat complicated mechanical system that actually turns the headlight projector assembly in the direction of a turn.



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Zero moving parts would also make these systems virtually bulletproof. Even the relay could be solid-state.



Every technology we enjoy today has typically been paid for by those who just had to have it first. Those $80,000 plasma TVs paved the way for the $599 job you can get today.