Universities are learning how to accelerate sustainability
Just how central are universities to advancing the practice of sustainability? Most professionals would say, "Very."
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What is climate gentrification?
In East Oakland, a few blocks from the home of the champion Golden State Warriors basketball team, a series of geometric buildings and well-tended green spaces cut a striking contrast to the overgrown vacant lots ...
3 telltale signs you’re shifting the supply chain
One of my favorite things is to sit on a rock and listen to the sounds of a forest, knowing that someone else might do the same thing in the same place 100 years from now.
Does ‘net zero’ live up to the hype?
I first become interested in zero energy buildings in 2003.
Why diversity is the key to unlocking sustainability
Let’s face it. We live in an incredibly divided world.
A sportswear company stays true to its sustainable slam dunk
She went shopping. With her five kids, four of them girls. Two answers started to appear — "go local" and "no new stuff."
Lessons from China’s ambitious green building movement
China has grand plans to green its buildings.
Sinking land, rising risk for world’s 340 million delta residents
Coastal deltas are becoming more at risk of flooding due to land subsidence, or the gradual sinking of the Earth’s surface, and sea-level rise.
How scientists use Google and crowdsourcing to map uncharted forests
No single person could hope to count the world’s trees.
3 reasons clean energy is poised to take off in developing cities
You often hear about renewable energy success stories in cities in the developed world — such as Vancouver, which has committed to get 100 percent of its energy from renewable sources before 2050, or San Diego, which has promised to obtain 100 percent renewable electricity by 2035.
