Biomimicry: using nature's designs to transform agriculture
Finalists in the Food Systems Design Challenge are creating cutting edge agriculture systems using some of the world’s oldest designs
September 2015
Is Kickstarter becoming a research and development tool for big business?
Kickstarter was designed as a crowdfunding tool, but its most popular projects are increasingly being co-opted by tech giants like Apple and Samsung
August 2015
Business model innovation
The trends spawning the next wave of sustainable business models
Lindsay Clinton and Rochelle March
From the sharing economy to digitization, technological and cultural trends are changing the way we think about sustainability
July 2015
Values-led business
Drought, urbanization and climate: big business opportunities for long-term thinkers
Lindsay Clinton and Rochelle March
Resource scarcity is a major business challenge, but evolving market conditions mean companies that can adapt quickly could reap big profits
May 2015
Technology and innovation
A new calculator aims to make business sustainability choices simpler
Weighing the environmental impact of different business decisions can be difficult, but a new tool is meant to streamline the process – and make it easier for companies to make better choices
April 2015
Rethinking prosperity
Beyond capitalism and socialism: could a new economic approach save the planet?
Business and the sustainable development goals
How should we gauge the success of poverty intervention?
Marc Gunther
February 2015
Technology and innovation
Driverless big rigs: new technologies aim to make trucking greener and safer
Could more automated driving – and driver training – shrink greenhouse-gas emissions, fuel costs and even highway fatalities?
Water
The phantom flush: why high-tech toilets waste so much water
Automatic toilets may be convenient and hygienic, but they also waste billions of gallons of water per year. Why hasn’t this issue been fixed yet?
Sustainable living
New OpenLabel app offers product information for eco-minded consumers
OpenLabel, a new purchasing app, lets customers get sustainability data and crowdsourced product reviews by swiping barcodes
December 2014
Values-led business
Chemicals are everywhere. Can a new business model make their use greener?
More companies are signing chemical leasing contracts, but does this new business model reduce environmental impact or just improve profits?
November 2014
Technology and innovation
The good drones: industries eagerly await FAA rules to allow them to fly
Technology and innovation
Lunch from a lab? A Brooklyn company builds a better burger
October 2014
Circular economy
Why are major beverage companies refusing to use a 90% recycled can?
Global trends in sustainable technologies
8 lessons from Egypt in building a cleaner chemicals industry
Wayne Visser
Sustainability in football: greening the game
Energy efficient air conditioning is within sight
September 2014
Grow more food with less water? There's an app for that
With nearly 3 billion people already facing water scarcity, farmers look to both tech and tradition for ways to grow more food with less of an increasingly strained resource
Redesigning transportation: can drivers end their love affair with cars?
Graduate programs in transportation design in Los Angeles and London aim to envision the future of cars – and beyond
Business model innovation
Online commerce: cutting energy and resource use - but at what cost?
E-commerce has made strides in resource efficiency, but may have hidden social consequences
