When you think of sustainability, you probably think of practices and sources of energy that don’t deplete the earth’s resources and/or make it easy to renew the earth or materials that are harvested ...

I remember sometimes in 1980, the last year of the Jimmy Carter administration, when a couple of economists from the US Department of agriculture visited a few of my colleagues at the US Environmental ...

Everyone seems focused on green. And there's nothing wrong with that. We've got to take better care of the planet, and anything the travel industry can do to support that is welcomed. But that's only ...

Different companies and people can legitimately have different views on what successful sustainability efforts look like, according to a senior director at one plastics industry trade group. "It's a ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook The surprising thing about words is that they can be completely ineffective. Coming from a person ...

In our consumer-focused culture, we often feel the need to buy our way out of a problem – and that’s a need that fast fashion brands have easily filled. Greenwashing has made it so that small changes ...

The concept of sustainable engineering has been around for more than 25 years. During my term, from 1988 to 1992, as chief of engineers and commander of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, I focused on ...

Ed note. Commentary below comes via Project Syndicate, and is reprinted here with permission. Author David Griggs is Director of the Monash Sustainability Institute (MSI) in Australia. Emphasis added.

VRAI reports that fine jewelry promotes sustainable consumption by focusing on timelessness, emotional significance, and ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Back in January, McDonald’s announced plans to begin purchasing “verified sustainable beef” by 2016. The only problem was no one quite ...

We're working on the October issue of HDT, with a cover story focusing on "Sustainability Success Stories," and Senior Editor Tom Berg wants to know: What the heck does this this "sustainability" word ...