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The Greener By Design conference wrapped up earlier this week, and for those of you unable to attend, Reuters has excellent coverage of every single talk, panel and lecture. For those in search of weekend reading, here's a sampling:

What Will Better Design and Success Look Like?
What's changed since last year's conference? A look at "The New Normal."

Reducing, Remaking and Eliminating Packaging
Companies are rethinking what they put products in, and what purpose packaging should serve during and after its useful life.

What's Driving Green Design?
How will carbon regulation impact product design? Experts on
carbon regulation, product toxicity, and sustainable product certification.

Can We Build Efficiency Into Products and Systems?
Designers from the technology and design worlds look at how energy efficiency can make an impact on the environmental performance of electronics.

Big Ideas from Small Companies
The Innovators' Showcase, and student winners of the Greener by Design Steelcase Scholarship competition.

Nature's Rights, Nutrients and Quality Design
William McDonough: "Design is the first signal of human intention ... What is our intention as a species and how do we go about thinking about that?"

Why and How Innovation Matters
How innovation is a boon and a challenge to the product design process.

Terracycle's Ultimate Solution
Terracycle wants to be "the ultimate solution to all waste globally.... Recycling 2.0."

Steelcase Makes a Case for 'Radical Evolution'
Steelcase's business sustainability practices and design strategy.