Google Moves Sustainability Needle With ‘Your Plan, Your Planet’
Google’s Fashion Friday Pledge encourages “outfit-repeating” to reduce waste.
Google’s Fashion Friday Pledge encourages “outfit-repeating” to reduce waste.
The Weld Hill Solar Project, currently underway, is the Arnold Arboretum’s third and largest solar project and Harvard’s most ambitious sustainability initiative to date, with nearly 1,300 solar panels powering a 45,000-square-foot science laboratory and teaching facility in Roslindale.
Late last year, Ikea unveiled plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions from its production systems by 80% in absolute terms by 2030. University of Surrey’s Patrick Elf provides an in-depth overview of Ikea’s Live Lagom project, which provided the basis for its ambitious sustainability commitment.
The United Nations has designed 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) that are said to “form a blueprint for a better and more sustainable future for all.”…
The Agrobiodiversity Index is an innovative tool to calculate how well countries are conserving and using their agricultural biodiversity. The first Index Report includes a 10-country analysis offering practical recommendations to i…
Recycling, lowering carbon footprints and helping the homeless are just some of the green initiatives used in the wine industry.Read the latest wine news & features on wine-searcher…
The biggest threat to nature is in fact human nature. Here’s why the evolution of human nature and the redefining of success is at the core of sustainability…
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EIT Climate-KIC partner University of Bologna unveils interactive web-based tool showing link between socio-economic indicators and sustainability transition in EU coal regions.
The CFDA previewed its new Sustainability Resource Hub, meant to raise industry efforts in the field, at Premiere Vision New York.
Against a backdrop of new green legislation and increasing consumer demand for low-carbon, resource-efficient products and services, almost half of UK businesses are planning to up their sustainability-related investments over the next two years.
We don’t know enough about the carbon footprint of vegan foods, and that needs to change.
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About 400,000 people are expected to attend the annual 10-day event in Brisbane, purchasing almost 700,000 showbags and producing 240 tonnes of waste.
“One Community is forwarding global sustainability and healing through open source and free-shared tools, tutorials, and resources covering all aspects of sustainability.We will use them to build One Community as the first of a global cooperative of self-replicating teacher/demonstration hubs working…
Cargill has launched a 10-year sustainability initiative. Are ranchers already there?
IPAT, why? This article is among a series revisiting the IPAT equation.Briefly, Paul Ehrlich [1] and colleagues in the 1970s [2] formulated this relation, that states that impact of a society is based on three main components – the number of people (Population), their level of consumption or income…
IKEA’s new store in Greenwich, London has become one of only 320 stores globally to receive an outstanding BREEAM construction rating…
A Richmond company has received certification that, not only are its products sustainably sourced, but that its workforce is treated well and able to give back to the community. Ocean Brands, a . .
Port producer Symington Family Estates has joined companies such as Patagonia, Innocent Drinks and Kickstarter in becoming a ‘B Corporation’ as well as announcing a new sustainability strategy. The B Corporation certification process not only assess a company’s existing, social, environmental and ethical business practices, it also obliges directors to make social and environmental goals an equal priority alongside financial ones.