Today’s Solutions: October 04, 2026

Videos: Creating a catamaran o

Videos: Creating a catamaran of plastic bottles

See the making of the Plastiki, a 60-foot catamaran made of plastic bottles, and watch interviews with David de Rothschild, who plans to sail the Plastiki across the Pacific. Ode Editors | May 2009 Read More...

Albina Ruiz Rios: A passion fo

Albina Ruiz Rios: A passion for recycling

Author and consultant John Elkington says he is inspired by Albina Ruiz Rios's passion for recycling and the environment. John Elkington | Jan/Feb 2009 issue Scene: a quiet gathering of Optimists Anonymous. It's my turn to speak. So I admit it: I'm John, and I'm an optimist, though sometimes you Read More...

Where there is waste there mig

Where there is waste there might be new products

The efforts by John and Nancy ToddJay Walljasper | November 2004 issue “Where there is waste, there might be new products,” declares John Todd, summing up 30 years of groundbreaking work in ecological engineering he has conducted with wife Nancy Jack Todd. Jack is the inventor, drawing on a Read More...