All this writing, despite my care to stretch and maintain proper posture, has taken a toll on my wrists and shoulders and everywhere in between. Working at the beach helped . . . a tad.

Hövding has rolled out an intergalactic bicycle collar that inflates into an airbag when you hit streets. Or actually, if you get hit.

Consider a cardboard laptop stand from Mission Stands: they are lightweight, easy to assemble and lift your laptop to a more ergonomic and comfortable eye level.

But the best ice cream flavor has to be what sounds like the product of a tryst between Bugs Bunny and Martha Stewart. Thank you, Scream Sorbet.

Kimberly-Clark, the brands of which include Huggies, Kleenex and Kotex, set several sustainability goals for 2015 and updates its stakeholders on the company’s progress on environmental and social issues.

A study published in Nature Geoscience concluded that the global demand for fresh water is contributing to the oceans’ rise faster than global warming’s impact on melting glaciers.

Safeway had a nightmare of a week, and based on the social media firestorm, recent criticism of the supermarket chain over suspending Ryan Young will not stop anytime soon.

Last week International Paper (IP), a $26 billion company with over 60,000 employees worldwide, issued its 2011 sustainability report, full of goals the company has set for 2020.