Around 8 million tons of plastic waste is dumped in the ocean annually.

Americans generally don’t like to carpool. The rates of carpooling in the United States actually have dropped over the past couple of decades despite the efforts of transportation planners.

As a specialist journalist operating in a specific field, whenever a big story breaks — I mean a really big story — the temptation is to search for the angle that applies to the topic you know best.

On a finite planet, endless economic growth is impossible. There is also plenty of evidence that in the developed world, a continued increase of GDP does not increase happiness.

The global water and sanitation crisis is not a new story. Each World Water Day, we review the sobering statistics with which we are becoming all too familiar: the expected 40 percent gap in global water supply and demand by 2050.

It seems like every month for years, some company in the digital set has committed to, or better yet, achieved 100 percent renewable power supply.

My father says, "Measure twice, cut once."

In nature, diversity builds ecosystem health, productivity, longevity and resilience. So, too, in communities: Sustainable economic and social systems need to be diverse and inclusive in every respect.

A century ago, fresh produce had no choice but to be local and seasonal, but technology changed all of that.

Former Secretary-General of the United Nations Kofi Annan created the U.N. Global Compact (UNGC) 17 years ago to align corporations on 10 universal sustainability principles and "give globalization a human face," said Lise Kingo, UNGC’s CEO and executive director.