sustainability

More single-use plastics including microbeads, packing peanuts and balloons are being phased out across the country. Queensland, South Australia (SA) and Western Australia (WA) introduced new bans on Sep. 1 ...

Thousands of Australian restaurants will be asked to ditch plastic containers and adopt sustainable food packaging in a ...

ORANGE, Calif.—Chapman University received $2.2 million in federal funding on April 14 for its Earth Systems Science Data ...

That half-bunch of kale is wilting in the fridge. There’s a lone carrot at the back of the ...

A Vancouver entrepreneur has transformed a most highly disposable object—the bamboo chopstick—into a viable business model, making trendily ...

NEW YORK—Clayton Colaw, a millennial working on his master's in sustainability at Columbia University, sees many things in ...

In February 2016, China declared in its National Congress that there will be a battle for growth. This ...

Humans are fast becoming city dwellers. According to the United Nations, "The urban population of the world has ...

Proposed legislation could, if passed, dramatically increase subsidies to America's biomass industry. A slew of concerns comes with ...

Unlike wind and solar, geothermal provides steady energy and can serve as a more cost-effective and less environmentally ...

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A global shift to increased cycling and electric biking could cut energy use and carbon dioxide emissions from ...

The program is geared toward people who have already started a business but just haven’t been able to ...

Many of us depend on coffee to fuel our early morning meetings, mid-afternoon slumps or all-night study sessions.

Global growth no longer keeps the pace of just a decade ago. Researcher Joergen Oerstroem Moeller points to ...

Most people in the US put millet in the birdfeeder, but Amrita Hazra says we ought to eat ...

What does your vision of a sustainable future look like?

Large-scale organic farming operations aren’t reducing greenhouse gas emissions, according to a review of almost a decade of ...

The “slow money” movement seeks to match locally produced and environmentally friendly food and artisanal products and services ...

Farmers should worry about how many individual wild bees they have pollinating their fields, not how many kinds ...

In 2009, Elinor Ostrom won the Nobel Prize for economics.

Aquaponics—the antithesis of large-scale industrial farming—is an innovative farming system where the waste stream of fish is used ...

A London-based social entrepreneur shares his plan for empowering neglected communities.

A simple T-shirt can pass through thirty pairs of hands before it makes it to the consumer, and ...

The past two years have proven extraordinarily successful for the solar power industry. In fact, during that period ...

The willingness to pay for sustainable products has increased universally since 2011. On a global scale, the percentage ...