4 cost-effective ways cities can cut carbon and create jobs
Cities consume over two-thirds of the world’s energy and account for more than 70 percent of global CO2 emissions, while occupying only 2 percent of its land area.
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What’s going on in the world of plastic?
I’m not easily impressed by advances in sustainable business — I’ve been watching them happen in fits and starts for three decades — but I’ll confess to being astounded by what’s going on these days in the world of plastic.
Design is the key to the self-driving challenge
Companies are paying millions of dollars to hire self-driving vehicle engineers. But it’s the designers — developing the experience around the interaction between vehicles and humans — who could be the key to how smoothly (or not) autonomous vehicles enter society.
Now is an incredible opportunity to make an impact on plastic
Is this the decade when we solve ocean plastic — or repeat the mistakes of the past?
Rooftop solar will help small businesses weather the next recession
The U.S. economy has been on one of the longest bull runs in history, but with mostly stagnant wage growth, rising interest rates and record-high asset prices across all asset classes, it’s poised for a potential fall.
Sick of coal yet?
Last week, the Trump administration offered up its revision to former President Barack Obama’s Clean Power Plan, the keystone of U.S. climate policy.
Mining for emissions reductions? Strike while the earth is cool
Companies involved in natural resource extraction and refinement are uniquely positioned to both benefit and suffer from society’s response to climate change.
Learning from California’s clean energy ambition
Recently, a disquieting pattern has emerged. Moderate national leaders — on both the center-left and center-right — in some of the world’s richest and most advanced countries are finding it far easier to talk about climate change than to actually fight it.
What Facebook and Apple can teach other tech titans
Peeling back corporate declarations about 100 percent renewable energy is kind of like shucking a late-season ear of Jersey corn: removing the top layer of husk is pretty easy, but you never know what exactly you'll find as you pick away at the cob silk.
Can we integrate natural ecosystems in urban Asian spaces?
Emerging Asian economies are fast expanding, and an associated phenomenon has been that of rapid urbanization.
