Rik Kretzinger grew up on a Christmas tree farm and spent his college years studying horticulture, but he found it too difficult to make a living as a small farmer so he spent […]
Sustainable Brands is an international community of learning and action focused on understanding and leveraging the role of brands in shaping a flourishing future. The Sustainable Brands Conference is ground zero for sustainability, […]
Maker’s Law: On a basic level, the movement is about reusing and repairing objects, rather than discarding them to buy more. On a deeper level, it’s also a philosophical idea about what ownership really […]
Following on from our earlier article (“large-scale mining in Bristol Bay poses risks to salmon and Alaska Native cultures”), the US Environmental Protection Agency has announced measures to protect the Bristol Bay salmon […]
The Royal Society and the US National Academy of Sciences, with their similar missions to promote the use of science to benefit society and to inform critical policy debates, have today released “Climate […]
Dynamic Blade Technologies aims to assist companies that own wind farms by helping them retrofit pre-existing wind turbines with new technology. The company plans to achieve substantial revenues by splitting the profits (from […]
One of the most innovative cyclical sewage systems to have appeared, and which might help reverse the depletion caused by linear systems, are Dr John Todd’s Living Machines, the inspiration for which came […]
After unheralded growth, the world is bumping up against its limits. Widespread affluence and urbanization have enriched many. But the rising tide also strains resources—the food and water that nourish our farms and […]
The world’s ocean ecosystems will suffer warming, increased acidity, low oxygen and reduced primary food supply as a result of rising CO2 and this is likely to have dramatic environmental and social impacts, […]
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has launched the WaterSense H2Otel Challenge as a way for agency partners and other organizations to encourage hotels to use best management practices that will save water […]